Stories and sketches for the youngHoughton, Mifflin, 1896 |
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Aunt Aunt Esther baby bark beautiful began bloodroot blue eyes bobolinks bright bright eyes Bullfrog called cambric Carlo Charley child Chipmunk Crickets Daisy dear Doctor door dress Eben Emily's everything father Featherhead Feathertop feel fellow felt flowers Fred give green grew hand happy Hardhack HARRIET BEECHER STOWE head heard heart Hindford hour Jamie knew lady laugh little birds little girl little Pussy live liverwort looked looking-glass Lucy mamma Master Miss Avery Miss Emily Miss Zarviah mistress morning mother Muff neighbors nest never nice night Nutcracker papa poor little pretty Prince Pussy Willow Pussy's round Rover Scotch terrier Scratchard seemed soft eyes sort squirrel story sure tell things thought Tip-Top took tree Trip Trott warm window winter young
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Página 219 - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Página 341 - It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
Página 41 - The bluebirds and bobolinks, it is true, took more cheerful views of matters ; but then, as old Mrs. Ground-mole observed, they were a flighty set, — half their time careering and dissipating in the Southern States, — and could not be expected to have that patriotic attachment to their native soil that those had who had grubbed in it from their earliest days. " This race of man," said the old chestnut-tree, " is never ceasing in its restless warfare on Nature.
Página 124 - Unhonour'd falls, unnoticed all his worth, Denied in heaven the soul he held on earth : While man, vain insect ! hopes to be forgiven, And claims himself a sole exclusive heaven.
Página 20 - WHATEVER brawls disturb the street, There should be peace at home; Where sisters dwell and brothers meet Quarrels should never come. Birds in their little nests agree ; And 'tis a shameful sight, When children of one family Fall out, and chide, and fight.
Página 123 - Near this spot Are deposited the Remains of one Who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, 'Courage without Ferocity, And all the Virtues of Man without his Vices. This Praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery If inscribed over human ashes, Is but a just tribute to the Memory of BOATSWAIN, a Dog, Who was born at Newfoundland, May, 1803, And died at Newstead Abbey, Nov. 18, 1808.
Página 124 - By nature vile, ennobled but by name, Each kindred brute might bid thee blush for shame. Ye ! who perchance behold this simple urn, Pass on— it honours none you wish to mourn : To mark a friend's remains these stones arise ; I never knew but one, — and here he lies.
Página 124 - But the poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest heart is still his master's own, Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone...
Página 124 - When some proud son of man returns to earth, Unknown to glory, but upheld by birth, The sculptor's art exhausts the pomp of woe, And storied urns record who rests below; When all is done, upon the tomb is seen, Not what he was, but what he should have been...
Página 121 - when Maida is alone with these young dogs, he throws gravity aside, and plays the boy as much as any of them ; but he is ashamed to do so in our company, and seems to say, 'Ha...