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... as to those of their parents . The boys now accompanied their father out , little Mary petitioning to be of the party . Their way lay through a narrow green lane that wound up a short ENGLISH COUNTRY SCENERY . 9 hill . The banks on.
... as to those of their parents . The boys now accompanied their father out , little Mary petitioning to be of the party . Their way lay through a narrow green lane that wound up a short ENGLISH COUNTRY SCENERY . 9 hill . The banks on.
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... the magnificence of the scene . There lay the waving corn- fields in their green , spring beauty ; there were the smooth pasture - meadows , with the young lambs chasing each other 10 BIHTH - DAY REFLECTIONS . about ; near at.
... the magnificence of the scene . There lay the waving corn- fields in their green , spring beauty ; there were the smooth pasture - meadows , with the young lambs chasing each other 10 BIHTH - DAY REFLECTIONS . about ; near at.
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... Green , who was coachman to the Earl of Belmont . John Green's family consisted of his wife and one little daughter , whose name was Patty . One fine May - morning , her mother called to Patty to help her sort out all the clean linen ...
... Green , who was coachman to the Earl of Belmont . John Green's family consisted of his wife and one little daughter , whose name was Patty . One fine May - morning , her mother called to Patty to help her sort out all the clean linen ...
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... green - house plants , and set wide open to receive the air of May , which wafted the sweet fragrance of the flowers into the apart- ment , sat a lady and a little girl . The former was at a table from which breakfast had been recently ...
... green - house plants , and set wide open to receive the air of May , which wafted the sweet fragrance of the flowers into the apart- ment , sat a lady and a little girl . The former was at a table from which breakfast had been recently ...
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... green box , and the convolvulus running up strings on each side of it : just look ; ' I can see into the snug little room beyond the win- dow , and I see such a nice little girl trotting about the room , and she seems to be helping her ...
... green box , and the convolvulus running up strings on each side of it : just look ; ' I can see into the snug little room beyond the win- dow , and I see such a nice little girl trotting about the room , and she seems to be helping her ...
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'Many Happy Returns of the Day!' by C. and M.C. Clarke Charles Cowden Clarke,Mary Victoria Cowden Clarke Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
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Página 92 - Round-hoof d, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long, Broad breast, full eye, small head, and nostril wide, High crest, short ears, straight legs and passing strong, Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide : Look, what a horse should have he did not lack, Save a proud rider on so proud a back.
Página 19 - Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.
Página 42 - Creatures that by a rule in nature teach The act of order * to a peopled kingdom : They have a king, and officers of sorts ; Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds ; Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the...
Página 18 - How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year ! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th.
Página 43 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their ( emperor; Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold, The civil citizens kneading up the honey, The poor mechanic porters crowding in Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate, The sad-eyed justice, with his surly...
Página 94 - Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
Página 292 - Now move to war her sable Matadores, In show like leaders of the swarthy Moors. Spadillio first, unconquerable Lord ! Led off two captive trumps, and swept the board.
Página 293 - Thus when dispers'da routed army runs, Of Asia's troops, and Afric's sable sons, With like confusion different nations fly, Of various habit, and of various dye, The pierc'd battalions disunited fall, In heaps on heaps; one fate o'erwhelms them all.
Página 193 - Joying to hear the birds' sweet harmony, Which therein shrouded from the tempest dread, Seem'd in their song to scorn the cruel sky. Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing Pine, the Cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop Elm, the Poplar never dry, The builder Oak, sole king of forests all, The Aspen good for staves, the Cypress funeral...
Página 85 - What delight To back the flying steed, that challenges The wind for speed ! — seems native more of air Than earth ! — whose burden only lends him fire ! — Whose soul, in his task, turns labour into sport ! Who makes your pastime his ! I sit him now ! He takes away my breath ! — He makes me reel ! I touch not earth — I see not — hear not — All Is ecstasy of motion ! Wild.