Fact and Fiction: A Collection of StoriesC.S. Francis & Company, 1846 - 282 страници |
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affectionate Alerik answered Antiorus Arisba arms asked Aunt Hetty babe beautiful beloved Big Elk blessed blossoms bosom Brenda bright brother child Christian clarinets Corythus countenance Cybele daughter dear deep dream Dryads Elizabeth Enone Ephesus exclaimed expression eyes face Fairweather Father Hansen feeling fell felt flowers flute gazed gentle girl glance guitar hand handsome happy head heard heart Hecuba Hilda hills Ilium Indian kissed LIBERAL CHRISTIANS listened Lizzy looked maiden marriage massa mind mother Mount Ida mournful nature neighbour never night Nora Norway passed Peggy play pleasant poor porringer replied Rosalie rose Scamander seemed shadow silent sing sister sleep smile soon sorrow soul spirit spoke strong sweet tears tell tenderness thee things thou thought tion told tones trees Turnpenny voice Wah-bu-nung-o wigwam wild William Penn wind Wolf's Head woman words Xarifa young youth
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Страница 40 - Sweet records, promises as sweet; 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...
Страница 65 - In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal ; But in far more th' estranged heart lets know The absence of the love, which yet it fain would show.
Страница 51 - 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 76 - In a few months more, poor Xarifa was a raving maniac. That pure temple was desecrated ; that loving heart was broken ; and that beautiful head fractured against the wall in the frenzy of despair. Her master cursed the useless expense she had cost him ; the slaves buried her ; and no one wept at the grave of her who had been so carefully cherished, and so tenderly beloved.
Страница 54 - ... 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 158 - 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 267 - ... had lately mingled with her love, that she carefully concealed her grief from him who had occasioned it. When she watched his countenance, with that pleading innocent look which had always...
Страница 241 - ... go, Teachers of content and honest pride, into the mine, the mill, the forge, the squalid depths of deepest ignorance, and uttermost abyss of man's neglect, and say can any hopeful plant spring up in air so foul that it extinguishes the soul's bright torch as fast as it is kindled!
Страница 51 - The arrival of travellers was too common an occurrence to excite or disturb the well-ordered family. Great logs were piled in the capacious chimney, and the flames blazed up with a crackling warmth , when two strangers entered. In the younger, Elizabeth instantly recognized...
Страница 160 - Fairweather, keeps a singing school," said she ; " and he says he will teach her gratis. You need not feel under great obligation; for her voice will lead the whole school, and her ear is so quick, it will be no trouble at all to teach her. Perhaps you would go with us sometimes, neighbor Turnpenny ? It is very pleasant to hear the children's voices.