Knick-knacks from an Editor's TableD. Appleton, 1852 - 335 páginas |
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... and advised you to this course . I have often thought it a great pity that the sallies of humor , the entertaining incidents , and the touches of tender pathos , which are so WORDS PRELIMINARY . 10 5 frequently to be met with.
... and advised you to this course . I have often thought it a great pity that the sallies of humor , the entertaining incidents , and the touches of tender pathos , which are so WORDS PRELIMINARY . 10 5 frequently to be met with.
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... course . I don't think so now . When a father and how much more a mother sees for the first time the gleam of affection illumining , with what the Germans call an ' interior light , ' the eyes and features of his infant child ; when ...
... course . I don't think so now . When a father and how much more a mother sees for the first time the gleam of affection illumining , with what the Germans call an ' interior light , ' the eyes and features of his infant child ; when ...
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... course , but yet a dreadful casualty , which drove reason from the throne of the unhappy mother when I read this , I thought of what had occurred in my own sanctum only a week or two before ; and the lesson which I received was a good ...
... course , but yet a dreadful casualty , which drove reason from the throne of the unhappy mother when I read this , I thought of what had occurred in my own sanctum only a week or two before ; and the lesson which I received was a good ...
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... - paralleled assurance , he turned about and retraced his course . The last person to whom he had sold a clock hailed him as he was going by : ' Look o ' here , stranger , AUTUMNAL COUNTRY INFLUENCES . 47 that clock you sold me.
... - paralleled assurance , he turned about and retraced his course . The last person to whom he had sold a clock hailed him as he was going by : ' Look o ' here , stranger , AUTUMNAL COUNTRY INFLUENCES . 47 that clock you sold me.
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... course which his children , who were watching the old horse depart , strenuously urged him to adopt . He disappeared , however , with his new master , and soon after , in company with a large drove of other horses , he was placed on ...
... course which his children , who were watching the old horse depart , strenuously urged him to adopt . He disappeared , however , with his new master , and soon after , in company with a large drove of other horses , he was placed on ...
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aint amusing anecdote asked BALTUS VAN TASSEL beautiful bird bright called captain child church cold Croton aqueduct dear death Doctor Doctor Cox dollars door exclaimed eyes father feel FLAMINGO gentleman Gentleman in Black GEOFFREY CRAYON GOSSIP ABOUT CHILDREN grave green guess hand head hear heard heart heaven hour JACK-ASS JARVIS kind kite lady LAKE GEORGE length live lobster look Mayor mind morning mother murder n't know never night Old KNICK once pain passed pleasant poor rail-road rain reader remark remember replied rise sanctum scene seen shore SING-SING SING-SING PRISON skulpin sleep smile sound spirit swearin tears tell thee thing thought tion Tompkinsville took town trees TRICKS UPON TRAVELLERS village voice walked WASHINGTON IRVING wind words write Yankee yeöu young
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Página 97 - Yet a few days, and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course; nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image.
Página 285 - Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep ; If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take ; And this I ask for Jesus
Página 139 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Página 85 - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Página 56 - O well for the fisherman's boy, That he shouts with his sister at play ! 0 well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still...
Página 48 - TEARS, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.
Página 63 - Thou hast clothed me, warmed and fed me, Listen to my evening prayer. Let my sins be all forgiven ! Bless the friends I love so well ! Take me, when I die, to heaven, Happy there with thee to dwell ! VI.
Página 184 - SEAWEED WHEN descends on the Atlantic The gigantic Storm-wind of the equinox, Landward in his wrath he scourges The toiling surges, Laden with seaweed from the rocks: From Bermuda's reefs; from edges Of sunken ledges, In some far-off, bright Azore ; From Bahama, and the dashing, Silver-flashing Surges of San Salvador...
Página 141 - THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT This is the farmer sowing his corn, That kept the cock that crowed in the morn, That waked the priest all shaven and shorn, That married the man all tattered and torn, That kissed the maiden all forlorn, That milked the cow with the crumpled horn, That tossed the dog That worried the cat That killed the rat That ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built.
Página 56 - But, O, for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still! Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, O Sea! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.