Burford Cottage, and Its Robin-red-breastT. Tegg and Son, 1835 - 476 Seiten |
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... never hear his pretty note , nor see his smooth olive back , and large dark eye , and orange breast , in the bright frosty mornings , or under the dull gray skies of the long winter that is coming ! " " What a very foolish girl Emily is ...
... never hear his pretty note , nor see his smooth olive back , and large dark eye , and orange breast , in the bright frosty mornings , or under the dull gray skies of the long winter that is coming ! " " What a very foolish girl Emily is ...
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... never heard of such countries in all my life ! I would not live in them , if they were the prettiest countries in the world ; that is , unless I had a nice aviary , like Miss Fosbrooke's , or a beautiful greenhouse , with little birds ...
... never heard of such countries in all my life ! I would not live in them , if they were the prettiest countries in the world ; that is , unless I had a nice aviary , like Miss Fosbrooke's , or a beautiful greenhouse , with little birds ...
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... never happen till some panther , carried in our ships to the coast of New Hol- land , shall afterward slip the cage of its showman , or the den of some Zoological Garden , to be established ( and perhaps shortly ! ) beneath the stars of ...
... never happen till some panther , carried in our ships to the coast of New Hol- land , shall afterward slip the cage of its showman , or the den of some Zoological Garden , to be established ( and perhaps shortly ! ) beneath the stars of ...
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... never failed to hear , upon white authority itself , that the Indians were discouraged from all attempts at cultivating their little plots of ground , by the constant plunder of the white people ; so that for the former to plant corn ...
... never failed to hear , upon white authority itself , that the Indians were discouraged from all attempts at cultivating their little plots of ground , by the constant plunder of the white people ; so that for the former to plant corn ...
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... never be seen in ignorance . But this memory of facts is , at the last , of very little use or dignity , compared with the higher wisdom which , from instance to instance , it is our duty and our happiness to draw from them ; and which ...
... never be seen in ignorance . But this memory of facts is , at the last , of very little use or dignity , compared with the higher wisdom which , from instance to instance , it is our duty and our happiness to draw from them ; and which ...
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Seite 326 - Where Angels tremble while they gaze, He saw; but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.
Seite 324 - Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees ; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Seite 24 - All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains : and of all that we behold From this green earth ; of all the mighty world Of eye and ear, — both what they half create, And what perceive...
Seite 330 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind?
Seite 458 - And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down and worshipped him; and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh.
Seite 321 - Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother tend, Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
Seite 296 - Tamed by the cruel season, crowd around The winnowing store, and claim the little boon Which Providence assigns them. One alone, The redbreast, sacred to the household gods. Wisely regardful of th...
Seite 466 - God who makes the sun to know His proper hour to rise, And to give light to all below, Doth send him round the skies. When from the chambers of the east His morning race begins, He never tires, nor stops to rest ; But round the world he shines.
Seite 325 - Up led by thee Into the heaven of heavens I have presumed, An earthly guest, and drawn empyreal air, Thy tempering; with like safety guided down Return me to my native element: Lest from this flying steed unreined, (as once Bellerophon, though from a lower clime) Dismounted, on the Aleian field I fall Erroneous there to wander and forlorn.
Seite 447 - Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose : but still persist to read. And Homer will be all the books you need.