 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 180 pagina’s
...darkness. Faces, clumsily carved in oak, on the back of his arm-chair Laughed in the flickering light, and the pewter plates on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine. Fragments of song the old man sang, and carols of Christmas, Such as at home, in the olden time, his... | |
 | Morning call - 1850 - 624 pagina’s
...darkness. Faces clumsily carved in oak, on the back of his arm-chair, Laughed in the flickering light, and the pewter plates on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine. Fragments of son^ the old man sang, and carols of Christinas, Such as at home, in the olden time, his... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 476 pagina’s
...clumsily carved in oak, on the hack of his arm-chair Laughed in the flickering light, and the pewtei plates on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine. Fragments of song the old man sang, and carols of Christmas, Such as at home, in the olden time, his... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pagina’s
...darkness. Faces, clumsily carved in oak, on the back of Ms armchair, Laughed in the flickering light ; and the pewter plates on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine. Fragments of song the old man sang, and carols of Christmas, Such as at home, in the olden time, his... | |
 | 1852 - 528 pagina’s
...darkness. Faces clumsily carved in oak, on the back of his arm-chair, Laughed in the flickering light, and the pewter plates on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine. Fragments of song the old man sang and carols of Christmas, Such as at home, in the olden time, his... | |
 | Midland-metropolitan magazine - 1852 - 676 pagina’s
...mode of treatment. He is quoting the description of the farmer's cozy kitchen." It ends thus : — And the pewter plates on the dresser, Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine. " Here," says the author, " is a piece of singularly good description quite ruined, as far as regards... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1852 - 610 pagina’s
...darkness. Faces clumsily carved in oak, on the back of his arm-chair, Laughed in the flickering light; and the pewter plates on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame, as shields nf armies ihe sunshine !" Here is a piece of singularly good description quite ruined, as far as regards... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 470 pagina’s
...clumsily carved in oak, on the back of his arm-chair Laughed in the flickering light, and the pewtei plates on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine. Fragments of song the old man sang, and carols of Christmas, Such as at home, in the olden time, his... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1854 - 174 pagina’s
...clumsily carved in oak, on the back of his arm-chair Laughed in the flickering light, and the pewtei plates on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine. Fragments of song the old man sang, and carols of Christmas, Such as at home, in the olden time, his... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1855 - 632 pagina’s
...sausages, spareribs and flitches of bacon ; the firelight of an evening dimly revealing the checked wooden coverlet of the bed, in one far-off corner, while...reflected the flame as shields of armies the sunshine." An old Dutch Bible brings us to the close of the Pilgrim relics. That this book was read and trusted... | |
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Faces clumsily carved in oak, on the back of his arm-chair, Laughed in the flickering light, and the pewter plates on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine. 
