The District School as it was: Scenery-showing, and Other WritingsPress of T. R. Marvin, 1852 - 364 стор. |
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... scholars , in passing out , used to snatch from the scant declivity the transitory pleasure of a slide . But look out for a slip - up , ye careless ; for many a time have I seen an urchin's head where his feet were but a second before ...
... scholars , in passing out , used to snatch from the scant declivity the transitory pleasure of a slide . But look out for a slip - up , ye careless ; for many a time have I seen an urchin's head where his feet were but a second before ...
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... scholar , the further from the front was his location . The win- dows behind the back seat were so low that the traveler could generally catch the stealthy glance of curiosity as he passed . Such was the Old School - house at the time I ...
... scholar , the further from the front was his location . The win- dows behind the back seat were so low that the traveler could generally catch the stealthy glance of curiosity as he passed . Such was the Old School - house at the time I ...
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... scholars to take much notice of me , excepting to hear me read my Abs four times a day . This exercise he went through like a great machine , and I like a little one ; so monotonous was the hum- drum and regular the recurrence of ab ...
... scholars to take much notice of me , excepting to hear me read my Abs four times a day . This exercise he went through like a great machine , and I like a little one ; so monotonous was the hum- drum and regular the recurrence of ab ...
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... scholars , as I strutted to my seat , with the thought , " I am almost as big as you now , " puffing out my tiny soul . Now , moreover , I held the book in my own hand , and kept the place with my own finger , instead of standing like a ...
... scholars , as I strutted to my seat , with the thought , " I am almost as big as you now , " puffing out my tiny soul . Now , moreover , I held the book in my own hand , and kept the place with my own finger , instead of standing like a ...
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... scholars , and were puffed up with our own superiority . We showed our contempt for the mis- tress and her orders , by doing mischief ourselves , and leading others into temptation . If she had the boldness to apply the ferule , we ...
... scholars , and were puffed up with our own superiority . We showed our contempt for the mis- tress and her orders , by doing mischief ourselves , and leading others into temptation . If she had the boldness to apply the ferule , we ...
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Сторінка 239 - Beauty — a living Presence of the earth, Surpassing the most fair ideal Forms Which craft of delicate Spirits hath composed From earth's materials — waits upon my steps ; Pitches her tents before me as I move, An hourly neighbour.
Сторінка 243 - A THING of beauty is a joy for ever : Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
Сторінка 223 - Heaven In every breast hath sown these early seeds Of love and admiration, yet in vain, Without fair Culture's kind parental aid...
Сторінка 272 - Of mountain torrents ; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods, and that uncertain heaven, received Into the bosom of the steady lake.
Сторінка 232 - And living as if earth contained no tomb, — And glowing into day: we may resume The march of our existence...
Сторінка 282 - THOU who wouldst see the lovely and the wild Mingled in harmony on Nature's face/ Ascend our rocky mountains. Let thy foot Fail not with weariness, for on their tops The beauty and the majesty of earth Spread wide beneath, shall make thee to forget The steep and toilsome way.
Сторінка 137 - I take my pen in hand to inform you that I am in a state of grate bliss, and trust these lines will find you injoyin the same blessins.
Сторінка 289 - Unfathomed and resistless. God hath set His rainbow on thy forehead : and the cloud Mantled around thy feet. And he doth give Thy voice of thunder, power to speak of him Eternally — bidding the lip of man Keep silence — and upon thy rocky altar pour Incense of awe-struck praise.
Сторінка 239 - Paradise, and groves Elysian, Fortunate Fields — like those of old Sought in the Atlantic Main — why should they be A history only of departed things, Or a mere fiction of what never was ? For the discerning intellect of Man, When wedded to this goodly universe In love and holy passion, shall find these A simple produce of the common day.
Сторінка 277 - I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me ; and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture : I can see Nothing to loathe in nature, save to be A link reluctant in a fleshly chain...