The Home Book of Pleasure and InstructionLaura Valentine Frederick Warne, 1867 - 567 páginas |
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Página 87
... naturally , and then to raise it by degrees , which will give a comical appear- ance of growth . We have seen the giantess thus appear to rise till she peered over the tops of the highest pictures in the room . The effect is ex ...
... naturally , and then to raise it by degrees , which will give a comical appear- ance of growth . We have seen the giantess thus appear to rise till she peered over the tops of the highest pictures in the room . The effect is ex ...
Página 133
... natural tears , And then you shall join the class , young To - day our theme is the astral spheres ; To - morrow , the Greek hexameter . Exit FATHER . sir : [ Exeunt omnes . JIM . JACK . PART II . SCENE - The. Christmas Games . 133.
... natural tears , And then you shall join the class , young To - day our theme is the astral spheres ; To - morrow , the Greek hexameter . Exit FATHER . sir : [ Exeunt omnes . JIM . JACK . PART II . SCENE - The. Christmas Games . 133.
Página 160
... natural . 186. One tars his ropes , the other pitches his tent . 187. He gets his grub by the plough . 188. It shoots from the eye . 189. It is a Walkinghame ( walking game ) . 190. Ashes . 191. Nothing . 192. They are skilled in the ...
... natural . 186. One tars his ropes , the other pitches his tent . 187. He gets his grub by the plough . 188. It shoots from the eye . 189. It is a Walkinghame ( walking game ) . 190. Ashes . 191. Nothing . 192. They are skilled in the ...
Página 192
... natural growth is scant . Still you can see arums in the spring - lords and ladies as country folks call them- with their pretty green sheath and crimson lance inside , and in autumn their clusters of transparent red berries like a ...
... natural growth is scant . Still you can see arums in the spring - lords and ladies as country folks call them- with their pretty green sheath and crimson lance inside , and in autumn their clusters of transparent red berries like a ...
Página 215
... naturally seem to follow carnations . The commoner sorts are most useful in a garden , especially the white , white and chocolate , and deep pink and chocolate , which form great patches of their respective decided colours , and keep ...
... naturally seem to follow carnations . The commoner sorts are most useful in a garden , especially the white , white and chocolate , and deep pink and chocolate , which form great patches of their respective decided colours , and keep ...
Términos y frases comunes
ANNA Antimacassar ball beautiful beds better birds bloom blue branches brown cage calyx centre ceramidia chain stitch CHARLEY circle colour covered doll double crochet draw dress edge EDITH Fanny five chain flowers four long stitches frond Fucus garden girl give gold green grow hand holes honeycomb stitch HONORA inches knit lady leaf leaf mould leather leaves light lines long stitches alternately loop MABEL MARY mollusk mould muslin needle NORA painted paper pay a forfeit petals piece pink pistil plants play players Polysiphonia pots pretty purple repeat require roots rose rose madder round seam seaweed seed sepals shade shell side silk sori spores spring stalk stamens stem stitch of double strip thread three long alternately three long stitches tint tree turn verse violet wool yellow young
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Página 90 - Hew down the bridge, Sir Consul, With all the speed ye may; I, with two more to help me, Will hold the foe in play. In yon strait path a thousand May well be stopped by three. Now who will stand on either hand, And keep the bridge with me?" Then out spake Spurius Lartius ; A Ramnian proud was he: "Lo, I will stand at thy right hand, And keep the bridge with thee.
Página 4 - The mulberry bush, the mulberry bush. Here we go round the mulberry bush, So early in the morning.
Página 66 - 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 146 - Twas whispered in heaven, twas muttered in hell, And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell ; On the confines of earth 'twas permitted to rest, And the depths of the ocean its presence confessed.
Página 89 - Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate: "To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his Gods...
Página 549 - And now it is the fundamental doctrines of the Catechism which I highliest value and daily think of, and find most useful to myself and others. The Creed, the Lord's Prayer and the Ten Commandments do find me now the most acceptable and plentiful matter for all my meditations. They are to me as my daily bread and drink. And as I can speak and write of them over and over again, so I had rather read or hear of them than of any of the school niceties which once so much pleased me. And thus I observed...
Página 182 - They hooted a third time, advancing with their cross-bows presented, and began to shoot. The English archers then advanced one step forward, and shot their arrows with such force and quickness that it seemed as if it snowed.
Página 146 - Twas allotted to man with his earliest breath, Attends him at birth, and awaits him in death, Presides o'er his happiness, honour and health, Is the prop of his house, and the end of his wealth; In the heaps of the miser 'tis hoarded with care, But is sure to be lost...
Página 371 - Light, where it exists, can exert an action, and, in certain circumstances, does exert one sufficient to cause changes in material bodies. Suppose, then, such an action could be exerted on the paper; and suppose the paper could be visibly changed by it. In that case surely some effect must result having a general resemblance to the cause which produced it: so that the variegated scene of light and shade might leave its image or impression behind, stronger or weaker on different parts of the paper...
Página 146 - Twill be found in the sphere when 'tis riven asunder, Be seen in the lightning, and heard in the thunder ; 'Twas allotted to man with his earliest breath, Attends at his birth and awaits him in death, Presides o'er his happiness, honour, and health, Is the prop of his house, and the end of his wealth.