Pratt Institute Monthly, Volumen1Pratt institute., 1893 |
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Página 20 - Homer ruled as his demesne : Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold : Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise— Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Página 20 - IN anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves, and rise from the perusal, our mind filled with the busiest, kaleidoscopic dance of images, incapable of sleep or of con'.inuous thought.
Página 267 - soured on his stomach ' (oh heaven !), and it was plainly my duty as a Christian wife to bake at home. So I sent for Cobbett's ' Cottage Economy,' and fell to work at a loaf of bread. But, knowing nothing about the process of fermentation or the heat of ovens, it came to pass that my loaf got put into the oven at the time...
Página 8 - I'll do all that." And then he would take off his coat and begin. He would send the girl out for sixpen'orth of nails and then one of the boys after her to tell her what size to get, and from that he would gradually work down and start the whole house. "Now, you go and get me my hammer, Will...
Página 9 - ... standing round in a semicircle, ready to help. Two people would have to hold the chair, and a third would help him up on it, and hold him there and a fourth would hand him a nail, and a fifth would pass him up the hammer, and he would take hold of the nail, and drop it. "There!" he would say, in an injured tone, "now the nail's gone.
Página 267 - That I, who had been so petted at home, whose comfort had been studied by everybody in the house, who had never been required to do anything but cultivate my mind, should have to pass all those hours of the night in watching a loaf of bread — which mightn't turn out bread after all...
Página 130 - The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.
Página 27 - The riches of the commonwealth Are free, strong minds, and hearts of health ; And more to her than gold or grain, The cunning hand and cultured brain.