Household Friends for Every SeasonTicknor and Fields, 1864 - 327 pages |
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... thee 227 JULIUS CHARLES HARE : Laughter 228 ADELAIDE A. PROCTER : Links with Heaven 241 HENRY D. THOREAU : Winter Animals in the Woods 243 SYDNEY DOBELL : Home , Wounded 253 SIR PHILIP SIDNEY : Thoughts from the Arcadia 263 J. T. ...
... thee 227 JULIUS CHARLES HARE : Laughter 228 ADELAIDE A. PROCTER : Links with Heaven 241 HENRY D. THOREAU : Winter Animals in the Woods 243 SYDNEY DOBELL : Home , Wounded 253 SIR PHILIP SIDNEY : Thoughts from the Arcadia 263 J. T. ...
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... thee girt gawney ? ” said the landlord ; " that's how th ' gen'l'volk do dress now - a - days , bean't it , Mr. Gabbet ? Ther ' wur young Squire Mundell passed here only last week , dressed noways different from thaay ; only he'd a got ...
... thee girt gawney ? ” said the landlord ; " that's how th ' gen'l'volk do dress now - a - days , bean't it , Mr. Gabbet ? Ther ' wur young Squire Mundell passed here only last week , dressed noways different from thaay ; only he'd a got ...
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... Thee dost n't look like one , zur . Wut zart o ' vlock's yourn , zur ? " " I've three or four , of a thousand each . " " Vour thousand zhep ! I hopes you ' ve got volks wi ' some gumption in ' em , zur , to look arter ' em these cowld ...
... Thee dost n't look like one , zur . Wut zart o ' vlock's yourn , zur ? " " I've three or four , of a thousand each . " " Vour thousand zhep ! I hopes you ' ve got volks wi ' some gumption in ' em , zur , to look arter ' em these cowld ...
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... thee the stick , ef thee gwoes an spwilin ' the tools , aal as I can zaay . " Dick Kendrick , to whom this objurgation was addressed in the outhouse next the stable of Avenly Manor - House , which was used for a carpenter's shop ...
... thee the stick , ef thee gwoes an spwilin ' the tools , aal as I can zaay . " Dick Kendrick , to whom this objurgation was addressed in the outhouse next the stable of Avenly Manor - House , which was used for a carpenter's shop ...
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... thee bist a vriend o ' mine , I'll tek but vive vrom thee . " And so it goes on , with much more ridiculous doggerel , but of absorbing interest to little Maggie , and all the younger portion of the audience . " Well , what were you ...
... thee bist a vriend o ' mine , I'll tek but vive vrom thee . " And so it goes on , with much more ridiculous doggerel , but of absorbing interest to little Maggie , and all the younger portion of the audience . " Well , what were you ...
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Page 166 - will seek the groves Where the lady Mary is, With her five handmaidens, whose names Are five sweet symphonies, Cecily, Gertrude, Magdalen, Margaret, and Rosalys.
Page 166 - And the souls mounting up to God Went by her like thin flames. And still she bowed herself and stooped Out of the circling charm; Until her bosom must have made The bar she leaned on warm, And the lilies lay as if asleep Along her bended arm. From the fixed place of Heaven she saw Time like a pulse shake fierce Through all the worlds.
Page 166 - THE blessed damozel leaned out From the gold bar of Heaven ; Her eyes were deeper than the depth Of waters stilled at even ; She had three lilies in her hand, And the stars in her hair were seven.
Page 51 - I care not much for gold or land ; — Give me a mortgage here and there, — Some good bank-stock, — some note of hand, Or trifling railroad share; — I only ask that Fortune send A little more than I shall spend. Honors are silly toys, I know, And titles are but empty names; — I would, perhaps, be Plenipo, — But only near St.
Page 166 - Her hair that lay along her back Was yellow like ripe corn. Herseemed she scarce had been a day One of God's choristers; The wonder was not yet quite gone From that still look of hers; Albeit, to them she left, her day Had counted as ten years.
Page 166 - I wish that he were come to me, For he will come,' she said. ' Have I not prayed in Heaven ? — on earth, Lord, Lord, has he not...
Page 166 - She gazed and listened and then said, Less sad of speech than mild — "All this is when he comes.
Page 52 - tis a sin To care for such unfruitful things; — One good-sized diamond in a pin, — Some, not so large, in rings, — A ruby, and a pearl, or so, Will do for me; — I laugh at show. My dame should dress in cheap attire; (Good, heavy silks are never dear;) — I own perhaps I might desire Some shawls of true Cashmere, — Some marrowy crapes of China silk, Like wrinkled skins on scalded milk.
Page 166 - Herself shall bring us, hand in hand, To Him round whom all souls Kneel, the clear-ranged unnumbered heads Bowed with their aureoles; And angels meeting us shall sing To their citherns and citoles.
Page 166 - The sun was gone now ; the curled moon Was like a little feather Fluttering far down the gulf; and now She spoke through the still weather. Her voice was like the voice the stars Had when they sang together.