Merry's Museum, Volúmenes5-6I.C. & J.N. Stearns, 1844 |
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... horse ; By four in the morning I'm up at my work ; ( Then there is nothing to live on but cabbage and pork ! ) I've to wash , and to brew , and to dairy and bake , And eight or nine beds every morning to make , Besides keeping clean ...
... horse ; By four in the morning I'm up at my work ; ( Then there is nothing to live on but cabbage and pork ! ) I've to wash , and to brew , and to dairy and bake , And eight or nine beds every morning to make , Besides keeping clean ...
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... horse , bearing the name placed at the head of this ar- ticle , and which , at the present time , is Queen Victoria's favorite for the saddle . He is a native of Barbary , and is of the finest and most famous Arabian breed . When he was ...
... horse , bearing the name placed at the head of this ar- ticle , and which , at the present time , is Queen Victoria's favorite for the saddle . He is a native of Barbary , and is of the finest and most famous Arabian breed . When he was ...
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... horse and man , was necessary . Tournaments made the prin- cipal exercises of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries ; but being at length productive of mischievous consequences , the princes of Europe gradually dis- couraged and ...
... horse and man , was necessary . Tournaments made the prin- cipal exercises of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries ; but being at length productive of mischievous consequences , the princes of Europe gradually dis- couraged and ...
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... horse shoes are nailed at the thresholds of doors to keep out the witch . To lend a friend a knife or scizzors is to cut friendship . THE CICADA . This insect , so greatly praised by the ancients , appears to have been a kind of ...
... horse shoes are nailed at the thresholds of doors to keep out the witch . To lend a friend a knife or scizzors is to cut friendship . THE CICADA . This insect , so greatly praised by the ancients , appears to have been a kind of ...
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... Horse Armory , " " Queen Elizabeth Armory , " and the " Small Arms Armory . " The two first are collections of ancient armor ; and though chiefly kept as objects of curiosity , they are exceedingly interest- ing . Here are to be seen ...
... Horse Armory , " " Queen Elizabeth Armory , " and the " Small Arms Armory . " The two first are collections of ancient armor ; and though chiefly kept as objects of curiosity , they are exceedingly interest- ing . Here are to be seen ...
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Página 58 - For often, at noon, when returned from the field, I found it the source of an exquisite pleasure, The purest and sweetest that nature can yield. How ardent I seized it, with hands that were glowing ! And quick to the white-pebbled bottom it fell; Then soon, with the emblem of truth overflowing, And dripping with coolness, it rose from the well; The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, arose from the well.
Página 90 - And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatic, and those that had the palsy ; and he healed them.
Página 58 - The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket arose from the well. How sweet from the green, mossy brim to receive it, As poised on the curb it inclined to my lips ! Not a full blushing goblet could tempt me to leave it, Though filled with the nectar that Jupiter sips.
Página 99 - THE melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sear. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread. The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrubs the jay, And from the wood-top calls the crow through all the gloomy day.
Página 9 - A LITTLE word in kindness spoken, A motion or a tear, Has often healed the heart that's broken, And made a friend sincere.
Página 185 - Now this, now that, he tasteth tenderly, Yet none of them he rudely doth disorder, Ne with his feet their silken leaves deface, But pastures on the pleasures of each place.
Página 5 - I humbly conceive my notice of this, especially at this time, will not be thought impertinent or unseasonable, but, at least, deserving some attention ; because, my lord, that any person, after a temperate use of life, a series of thinking and acting regularly, and without one single deviation from sobriety, should plunge into the very depth of profligacy precipitately and at once, is altogether improbable and unprecedented, and absolutely inconsistent with the course of things. Mankind is never...
Página 177 - ... with the powerful sweet, the ear was constantly attacked by an extremely soft but agreeable murmuring sound. It was easy to know that some animal within the covert must be the musician, and that the little noise must come from some little body suited to produce it.
Página 21 - Sirajuddaulah, entertained himself with concerts, and that they listened to the strains with an appearance of pleasure, till the monster, in whose soul there was no music, shot one of them to display his archery.
Página 35 - This was a tough question; and George staggered under it for a moment; but quickly recovered himself: and looking at his father, with the sweet face of youth brightened with the inexpressible charm of all-conquering truth, he bravely cried out, 'I can't tell a lie, Pa; you know I can't tell a lie.