A New Home--who'll Follow?: Or, Glimpses of Western LifeC. S. Francis, 1839 - 337 ページ |
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... words , by way of introduction , to a work which may be deemed too slight to need a preface , but which will doubtless be acknowledged to require some recommendation . I claim for these straggling and cloudy crayon - sketches of life ...
... words , by way of introduction , to a work which may be deemed too slight to need a preface , but which will doubtless be acknowledged to require some recommendation . I claim for these straggling and cloudy crayon - sketches of life ...
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... of " Muirs , and mosses , slaps and styles " - I had just indulged in something like a yawn , and wish- ed that I could see our hotel . At the word , my com . panion's face assumed rather a comical expression , and I 14 A NEW HOME ,
... of " Muirs , and mosses , slaps and styles " - I had just indulged in something like a yawn , and wish- ed that I could see our hotel . At the word , my com . panion's face assumed rather a comical expression , and I 14 A NEW HOME ,
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... word , she drew out the trundle - bed as far as our standing- place would allow , to show me how convenient it was . Here was my grand problem still unsolved ! If " me and the old man , " and the girls , and Sally and Jane , slept in ...
... word , she drew out the trundle - bed as far as our standing- place would allow , to show me how convenient it was . Here was my grand problem still unsolved ! If " me and the old man , " and the girls , and Sally and Jane , slept in ...
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... words some . times flowed in measured softness , and sometimes tum . bled over each other , in his anxiety to ... word he said ; at least so I have since been informed . This gentleman had kindly undertaken to lay out our village ...
... words some . times flowed in measured softness , and sometimes tum . bled over each other , in his anxiety to ... word he said ; at least so I have since been informed . This gentleman had kindly undertaken to lay out our village ...
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... words " slick up . " She soon after disappeared behind one of the white screens I have mentioned , and in an incredibly short time emerged in a different dress . Then taking down the comb I have hinted at , as exalted to a juxtaposition ...
... words " slick up . " She soon after disappeared behind one of the white screens I have mentioned , and in an incredibly short time emerged in a different dress . Then taking down the comb I have hinted at , as exalted to a juxtaposition ...
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Agnes ague Almanzor asked baby beautiful Beckworth began bread Brent called Cathcart CHAPTER charming Clavers comfort Cora course Danforth delicate door Doubleday dress Eloise Everard eyes fair favour feel felt fire floor Flyter fortunate friends gingham girl green green tea habits hand heard Henry honour hour husband Ianthe Jenkins Jennings Jephson jist knew least live log-house long Sam looked looking-glass marsh Mazard Michigan miles Miss Fidler Montacute Montacute House morning mother neighbours never New-York Newland night Nippers occasion once PALMYRA passed Philo poor pretty ready Rivers scarcely seemed settlers Shafton side smile soon sort spirit stood sure talk tell thing thought Tinkerville tion Titmouse told took usual village walk wife wild wild cat window Wolverine woman woods word young lady
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291 ページ - Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I.
78 ページ - Many examples may be put of the force of custom, both upon mind and body ; therefore, since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavour to obtain good customs. Certainly, custom is most perfect when it beginneth in young years: this we call education, which is, in effect, but an early custom.
152 ページ - Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago Blushed at the praise of their own loveliness; And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs Which ne'er might be repeated...
107 ページ - It were good therefore that men in their innovations would follow the example of time itself, which indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly and by degrees scarce to be perceived...
89 ページ - Truly, shepherd, in respect of itself, it is a good life; but in respect that it is a shepherd's life, it is naught. In respect that it is solitary, I like it very well; but in respect that it is private, it is a very vile life. Now in respect it is in the fields, it pleaseth me well; but in respect it is not in the court, it is tedious.
250 ページ - IX. 0 how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of heaven, O how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! X.
181 ページ - While low delights, succeeding fast behind, In happier meanness occupy the mind : As in those domes, where...
133 ページ - I COME, I come ! ye have called me long, I come o'er the mountains with light and song, Ye may trace my step o'er the wakening earth, By the winds which tell of the violet's birth, By the primrose stars in the shadowy grass, By the green leaves opening as I pass.
116 ページ - The pen, and ink, and a sheet o' paper, and a wafer,' is no unusual request ; and when the pen is returned, you are generally informed, that you sent ' an awful bad pen.' " I have been frequently reminded of one of Johnson's humorous sketches. A man returning a broken wheel-barrow to a Quaker, with ' Here, I 've broke your rotten wheel-barrow, usin
116 ページ - I wish you'd get it mended right off, 'cause I want to borrow it again this afternoon." The Quaker is made to reply, "Friend, it shall be done:" and I wish I possessed more of his spirit.