The golden gift, a book for the youngWilliam P. ***, 1868 |
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Página 50
... Corporal Trim to work ; and sweetly went it on . The nature of the soil , the nature of the work itself and , above all , the good - nature of my Uncle Toby , sitting by from morning to night , and chatting kindly with the Corporal upon ...
... Corporal Trim to work ; and sweetly went it on . The nature of the soil , the nature of the work itself and , above all , the good - nature of my Uncle Toby , sitting by from morning to night , and chatting kindly with the Corporal upon ...
Página 51
... Corporal began to run their first parallel , not at random , or anyhow , but from the same points and distances the Allies had begun to run theirs ; and regulating their approaches and attacks by the accounts my Uncle Toby received from ...
... Corporal began to run their first parallel , not at random , or anyhow , but from the same points and distances the Allies had begun to run theirs ; and regulating their approaches and attacks by the accounts my Uncle Toby received from ...
Página 52
... Corporal , whose principal strength lay in invention , supplied by an entirely new system of battering of his own . With two or three other trinkets , small in themselves , but of great regard , which poor Tom , the Corporal's ...
... Corporal , whose principal strength lay in invention , supplied by an entirely new system of battering of his own . With two or three other trinkets , small in themselves , but of great regard , which poor Tom , the Corporal's ...
Página 53
... Corporal had begun the attack without him . me stop and give you a picture of the Corporal's apparatus , and of the Corporal himself in the height of the attack , just as it struck my Uncle Toby , as he turned towards the sentry - box ...
... Corporal had begun the attack without him . me stop and give you a picture of the Corporal's apparatus , and of the Corporal himself in the height of the attack , just as it struck my Uncle Toby , as he turned towards the sentry - box ...
Página 54
... Corporal sat up the best part of the night in bringing his project to perfec- tion ; and having made a sufficient proof of his cannon , with charging them to the top with tobacco , he went with contentment to bed . The Corporal had ...
... Corporal sat up the best part of the night in bringing his project to perfec- tion ; and having made a sufficient proof of his cannon , with charging them to the top with tobacco , he went with contentment to bed . The Corporal had ...
Términos y frases comunes
babe BATTLE OF BLENHEIM beautiful birds breast Bremen BROKEN FLOWER child Christiana Clever Alice Corporal creature cried Dame Van Winkle dark daughter dead dear donkey door eyes father forbear to weep girl Grasmere great-grandmother Field Griffin hand Harrison Weir head heard heart heaven heiress hole Holly-Tree John Gilpin Killingworth laughed Little white Lily live looked Magpie morning mother mountain neighbourhood never night o'er Paterson pipe poor pray prayer quoth rain Regina Reynard Reynard the Fox Rip Van Winkle Rip's rock round Sancho Sarah Green sentry-box sing sleep smiled snow stood stormy winds story sweet baby tail thee thing thou thought told took town tree turned Twas Uncle Toby Uncle Toby's village voice waiting wife wild WILLIAM WORDSWORTH window winds do blow wonder woods
Pasajes populares
Página 86 - Her home is on the deep. With thunders from her native oak She quells the floods below — As they roar on the shore, When the stormy winds do blow ; When the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow.
Página 148 - My head is twice as big as yours, They therefore needs must fit. But let me scrape the dirt away That hangs upon your face ; And stop and eat, for well you may Be in a hungry case. Said John, It is my wedding-day, And all the world would stare, If wife should dine at Edmonton, And I should dine at Ware. So turning to his horse, he said, I am in haste to dine ; 'Twas for your pleasure you came here, You shall go back for mine.
Página 56 - Old Kaspar took it from the boy, Who stood expectant by; And then the old man shook his head, And with a natural sigh, ' 'Tis some poor fellow's skull,' said he, 'Who fell in the great victory.
Página 67 - Wolf would wag his tail, look wistfully in his master's face, and if dogs can feel pity I verily believe he reciprocated the sentiment with all his heart.
Página 143 - Good lack ! quoth he, yet bring it me, My leathern belt likewise, In which I bear my trusty sword When I do exercise.
Página 23 - Some ship in distress, that cannot live In such an angry sea!" "O father! I see a gleaming light, O say, what may it be?" But the father answered never a word, A frozen corpse was he. Lashed to the helm, all stiff and stark, With his face turned to the skies; The lantern gleamed through the gleaming snow On his fixed and glassy eyes. Then the maiden clasped her hands, and prayed That saved she might be; And she thought of Christ, who stilled the waves, On the Lake of Galilee.
Página 71 - ... his gun. Wolf, too, had disappeared, but he might have strayed away after a squirrel or partridge. He whistled after him and shouted his name, but all in vain; the echoes repeated his whistle and shout, but no dog was to be seen. He determined to revisit the scene of the last evening's gambol, and if he met with any of the party, to demand his dog and gun. As he rose to walk, he found himself stiff in the joints, and wanting in his usual activity. " These mountain beds do not agree with me...
Página 66 - Rip Van Winkle, however, was one of those happy mortals, of foolish, well-oiled dispositions, who take the world easy, eat white bread or brown, whichever can be got with least thought or trouble, and would rather starve on a penny than work for a pound.
Página 69 - He was a short square-built old fellow, with thick bushy hair, and a grizzled beard. His dress was of the antique Dutch fashion — a cloth jerkin...
Página 76 - Rip Van Winkle yonder, leaning against the tree." Rip looked, and beheld a precise counterpart of himself, as he went up the mountain ; apparently as lazy, and certainly as ragged. The poor fellow was now completely confounded. He doubted his own identity, and whether he was himself or another man.