In the Sky-gardenLockwood, Brooks,, 1877 - 217 страници |
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... Hepsy knew them all by heart ; for she had helped her grand- father keep store ever since she was a very little girl . When she began going to school , and the teacher assigned her the tables of apothecary's and avoirdupois weight for ...
... Hepsy knew them all by heart ; for she had helped her grand- father keep store ever since she was a very little girl . When she began going to school , and the teacher assigned her the tables of apothecary's and avoirdupois weight for ...
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... Hepsy's grandfather kept the post - office ; and those great yellow business - envelopes that came regularly every week , and oftener , were frequently so bulky as to need extra postage , and were thrown into the scales for the brass ...
... Hepsy's grandfather kept the post - office ; and those great yellow business - envelopes that came regularly every week , and oftener , were frequently so bulky as to need extra postage , and were thrown into the scales for the brass ...
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... Hepsy had herself been weighed here , she could not exactly remember when ; but grandfather said she was the least of the lot , and only weighed seven and a half pounds . When Jack's bombshell came home from the war , it was hollow and ...
... Hepsy had herself been weighed here , she could not exactly remember when ; but grandfather said she was the least of the lot , and only weighed seven and a half pounds . When Jack's bombshell came home from the war , it was hollow and ...
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... Hepsy . She was so gentle , so good- humored , and so serviceable , that her grandfather used often to say that she was worth her weight in gold . But even this compliment did not spoil her . " He would never have said so , you know ...
... Hepsy . She was so gentle , so good- humored , and so serviceable , that her grandfather used often to say that she was worth her weight in gold . But even this compliment did not spoil her . " He would never have said so , you know ...
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... Hepsy's class was to graduate . The programmes were out , and she saw her name in print for the first time , Hephzi- bah Smith . No one had called her Hephzibah but grandfather , and he always added the signification of the name , " My ...
... Hepsy's class was to graduate . The programmes were out , and she saw her name in print for the first time , Hephzi- bah Smith . No one had called her Hephzibah but grandfather , and he always added the signification of the name , " My ...
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Alice Animated Nature asked Joy Auriga beautiful Bobby Copernicus brass bull-fight called CAPRICORNUS Capt chariot Charles's château church color comet constellation courser Cousin Myrtle crab daughter Dick dollars door double star dress dribe earth eclipsed exclaimed eyes Fadrique Father Zenobe flowers Floy Fortress Monroe garden Gaston ghosts goat gold Golden Fleece grandfather Grandma guineas hair Halley's Comet Harold heart Helen Earlewinne heliotypes Hepsy Josephine Joy's knew lady landlord LEO WHITE light little girl live look Major Makinoff Miss Dibbs Miss Dibbs's moon Mustruf never night parallax Paris passed Pleiad Praise queer replied Puck ride rugs Sallie scorpiums seemed seen shining sky-garden star-flowers Starboard stars story strange sure tell thing thought Toison d'Or told Uncle Briar walked White Lion window wish wonder young zodiac Zuleika Zuleika's mother
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Страница 201 - And thou, too, whosoe'er thou art, That readest this brief psalm, As one by one thy hopes depart, Be resolute and calm. O fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know ere long, Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.
Страница 195 - Save base authority from others' books. These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights Than those that walk and wot not what they are.
Страница 116 - My good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance thrusteth sure, My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.
Страница 207 - And thou shalt bathe thee in the stream That rolls its whitening foam aboon, And ride upon the lightning's gleam, And dance upon the orbed moon! We'll...
Страница 201 - THE night is come, but not too soon ; And sinking silently, All silently, the little moon Drops down behind the sky. There is no light in earth or heaven, But the cold light of stars ; And the first watch of night is given To the red planet Mars.
Страница 196 - That day, as other solemn days, they spent In song and dance about the sacred hill ; Mystical dance, which yonder starry sphere Of planets, and of...
Страница 196 - Star light, star bright, First star I seen tonight. I wish I may, I wish I might Have the wish I wish tonight.
Страница 207 - We'll sit within the Pleiad ring, We'll rest on Orion's starry belt, And I will bid my sylphs to sing The song that makes the dew-mist melt ; Their harps are of the umber shade That hides the blush of waking day, And every gleamy string is made Of silvery moonshine's lengthened ray ; And thou...
Страница 192 - Mount thy steed and spur him high To the heaven's blue canopy; And when thou seest a shooting star, Follow it fast, and follow it far — The last faint spark of its burning train Shall light the elfin lamp again. Thou hast heard our sentence, fay; Hence! to the water-side, away!
Страница 23 - The Ram, the Bull, the heavenly Twins, And next the Crab the Lion shines, The Virgin and the Scales ; The Scorpion, Archer and He-goat, The Man that holds the watering-pot And Fish with glittering tails.