Fact and Fiction: A Collection of StoriesC. S. Francis & Company, 1847 - 282 страници |
Често срещани думи и фрази
affectionate Alerik answered Antiorus Arisba arms asked Aunt Hetty babe beautiful beloved Big Elk blessed blossom bosom Brenda bright BROADWAY BOSTON brother child Christian clarinets Corythus countenance daughter dear deep dream Elizabeth Enone Ephesus exclaimed expression eyes Eystein Fairweather Father Hansen feelings FELICIA HEMANS felt flowers flute free forest gazed gentle girl glance hand handsome happy head heard heart Hilda hills Ilium Indian kissed LIBERAL CHRISTIANS listened Lizzy looked maiden marriage massa mind mother Mount Ida mountain nature neighbour never night Nora Norway passed Peggy play pleasant poor QUADROONS rejoined replied Rosalie rose Rosenglory Scamander seemed shadow silent sing sister slaves sleep smile soon sorrow soul spirit spoke strong tears tell tenderness thee things thou thought tion told tones trees tune Turnpenny voice Wah-bu-nung-o wigwam wild William Penn woman words Xarifa young youth
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Страница 22 - A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears and smiles And now I see with eye serene The very pulse of the machine; A being breathing thoughtful breath, A traveller betwixt life and death; The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength and skill : A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort and command; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of angelic light.
Страница 186 - GERONTION Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both. HERE I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain. I was neither at the hot gates Nor fought in the warm rain Nor knee deep in the salt marsh, heaving a cutlass, Bitten by flies, fought. My house is a decayed house, And the jew squats on the...
Страница 191 - Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep ; If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take ; And this I ask for Jesus
Страница 33 - She was too busy to be sad, and leaned too trustingly on her Father's hand to be doubtful of her way. The neighboring Indians soon loved her as a friend, for they found her always truthful, just, and kind. From their teachings, she added much to her knowledge of simple medicines. So efficient was her skill and so prompt...
Страница 159 - For as be all bards, he was born of beauty, And with a natural fitness to draw down All tones and shades of beauty to his soul, Even as the rainbow-tinted shell, which lies Miles deep at bottom of the sea, hath all Colours of skies and flowers, and gems, and plumes, And all by Nature, which doth reproduce Like loveliness in seeming opposites.
Страница 36 - ... the laborers worked harder than they. When he returned, glowing from this exercise, she could not but observe that the excellent youth had a goodly countenance. It was not physical beauty; for of that he had little. It was that cheerful, child-like, out-beaming honesty of expression, which we not unfrequently see in Germans, who, above all nations, look as if they carried a crystal heart within their manly bosoms. Two days after, when Elizabeth went to visit her patients, with a sled-load of...
Страница 140 - It was one of those cold snapping mornings, when a slight thing irritates both man and beast. The cattle all stood very still and meek, till one of the cows attempted to turn round. In making the attempt, she happened to hit her next neighbour ; whereupon the neighbour kicked and hit another. In five minutes, the whole herd were kicking and hooking each other, with all fury.
Страница 210 - His happy home, the ground. To left and right, The cuckoo told his name to all the hills; The mellow ouzel fluted in the elm; The redcap whistled ; and the nightingale Sang loud, as tho
Страница 139 - One frosty morning, I was looking out of the window into my father's barn-yard, where stood many cows, oxen, and horses, waiting to drink. It was one of those cold snapping mornings, when a alight thing irritates both man and beast.
Страница 37 - I have a subject of importance on my mind, and one which nearly interests thee. I am strongly impressed that the Lord has sent thee to me as a partner for life. I tell thee my impression frankly, but not without calm and deep reflection; for matrimony is a holy relation, and should be entered into with all sobriety. If thou hast no light on the subject, wilt thou gather into the stillness and reverently listen to thy own inward revealings? Thou art to leave this part of the country to-morrow, and...