Life on a Backwoods Farm: Or, The Boyhood of Reuben Rodney BlannerhassettJennings & Pye, 1894 - 258 sidor |
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... horses , one day , by a burnt log in the clearing , and I asked them what made them black . They answered that God did , and that all the best people in the world were made black . " Nobody around here is black but you . " " And nobody ...
... horses , one day , by a burnt log in the clearing , and I asked them what made them black . They answered that God did , and that all the best people in the world were made black . " Nobody around here is black but you . " " And nobody ...
Sida 67
... horse without bit or bridle , on which we are tied ; and we always take a Mazeppa's ride . Keep your temper— above everything , keep your temper . Good Lord , give us " the spirit of a sound mind ! " After Joe left our house , I grew ...
... horse without bit or bridle , on which we are tied ; and we always take a Mazeppa's ride . Keep your temper— above everything , keep your temper . Good Lord , give us " the spirit of a sound mind ! " After Joe left our house , I grew ...
Sida 77
... horses , and to put the chock under the handspike , as father , first with his weight , then with a lift , would bring the hewed timber up against the axle with the aid of a log - chain . The trusty old rifle always went along these ...
... horses , and to put the chock under the handspike , as father , first with his weight , then with a lift , would bring the hewed timber up against the axle with the aid of a log - chain . The trusty old rifle always went along these ...
Sida 82
... horse in the stable , had taken the long rifle , and had gone into the west woods to hunt squirrels . This was a famous old gun we kept specially for small game . It run two hundred bullets to the pound . With thick patching , we could ...
... horse in the stable , had taken the long rifle , and had gone into the west woods to hunt squirrels . This was a famous old gun we kept specially for small game . It run two hundred bullets to the pound . With thick patching , we could ...
Sida 94
... horse's back , -BURNS . With his stirrups short , and his swaffle strong , And the blast of the horn for his morning song ? " -CORNWALL . N aged Indian sits around the camp - fire , AN and regales the tribe with the deeds of his own ...
... horse's back , -BURNS . With his stirrups short , and his swaffle strong , And the blast of the horn for his morning song ? " -CORNWALL . N aged Indian sits around the camp - fire , AN and regales the tribe with the deeds of his own ...
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animal beauty became Bertran birds black bass Blannerhassett breath Bruno cabin canal cattle caught chase child Croppie dead Delawares delirium tremens Dog and wolf Dorkey eagle Elenor Erie Canal Evansville face father fearful feeling feet fight fish gone grass ground hands Hazelgreen Heakle heart herds horse hour human hundred hunt hunter Indian Jack Hardy jack-oak Jimmy keep killed killed Uncle King Lear knew Lena limb living look mental miles mind moral morning mother mules Nancy nature Nemo never night old Jim opossum pipe of peace prairie pull road Rodney Shawnee side sight sort soul spirit stars stood stream tell things thought threw timber to-day tomahawk took trees turned venison Wakarusa walked whisky wigwam wild witches wolf woman woods young
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Sida 239 - A worm ! a god ! I tremble at myself, And in myself am lost. At home a stranger, Thought wanders up and down, surprised, aghast. And wondering at her own. How reason reels . O, what a miracle to man is man ! Triumphantly distressed!
Sida 11 - Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs ; To the silent wilderness Where the soul need not repress Its music, lest it should not find An echo in another's mind, While the touch of Nature's art Harmonizes heart to heart.
Sida 108 - For woman is not undevelopt man, But diverse : could we make her as the man, Sweet love were slain : his dearest bond is this, Not like to like, but like in difference. Yet in the long years liker must they grow ; The man be more of woman, she of man ; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world ; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care...
Sida 213 - Over wide and rushing rivers In his arms he bore the maiden ; Light he thought her as a feather, As the plume upon his head-gear; Cleared the tangled pathway for her, Bent aside the swaying branches, Made at night a lodge of branches, And a bed with boughs of hemlock, And a fire before the doorway With the dry cones of the pine-tree.
Sida 213 - Pleasant was the journey homeward Through interminable forests, Over meadow, over mountain, Over river, hill, and hollow. Short it seemed to Hiawatha, Though they journeyed very slowly, Though his pace he checked and slackened To the steps of Laughing Water.
Sida 69 - God abhorr'd, with violence rude to break The thread of life, ere half its length was run, And rob a wretched brother of his being. With joy Ambition saw, and soon improved The execrable deed.
Sida 94 - My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here, My heart's in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer; A-chasing the wild deer, and following the roe, My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go...
Sida 88 - My name is Norval : on the Grampian hills My father feeds his flocks; a frugal swain, Whose constant cares were to increase his store, And keep his only son, myself, at home.
Sida 132 - The heavens declare the glory of God : and the firmament sheweth his handy work. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
Sida 69 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.