Rural EssaysLeavitt & Allen, 1858 - 557 oldal |
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xii. oldal
... side of the river ; soothed by the uni- versal silence of the country , while the constant occupation of the father , and of the brother who worked with him in the nursery , made the boy serious , by necessarily leaving him much alone ...
... side of the river ; soothed by the uni- versal silence of the country , while the constant occupation of the father , and of the brother who worked with him in the nursery , made the boy serious , by necessarily leaving him much alone ...
xxi. oldal
... side of the river , at Fishkill Landing , lay , under blossoming locust trees , the estate and old family mansion of John P. De Wint , Esq . The place had the charms of a " moated grange , " and was quite the contrast of the ele- gant ...
... side of the river , at Fishkill Landing , lay , under blossoming locust trees , the estate and old family mansion of John P. De Wint , Esq . The place had the charms of a " moated grange , " and was quite the contrast of the ele- gant ...
liv. oldal
... side . There was little time to say any thing . The smoke rapidly increased ; all who could reach it hurried into the cabin . The thickening smoke poured in after the crowd , who were nearly suffocated . The dense mass choked the door ...
... side . There was little time to say any thing . The smoke rapidly increased ; all who could reach it hurried into the cabin . The thickening smoke poured in after the crowd , who were nearly suffocated . The dense mass choked the door ...
lxvi. oldal
... side , a glance of his eye , a smile , half melancholy , half arch , would direct my looks to some curious things passing , or some words would break the si- lence , slightly spoken , without accent , yet with meaning and power enough ...
... side , a glance of his eye , a smile , half melancholy , half arch , would direct my looks to some curious things passing , or some words would break the si- lence , slightly spoken , without accent , yet with meaning and power enough ...
14. oldal
... side of the picture . Turn it in an- other light , and study it , and the effect is by no means so agreeable to the reflective mind . The spirit of unrest , followed into the bosom of society , makes of man a feverish being , in whose ...
... side of the picture . Turn it in an- other light , and study it , and the effect is by no means so agreeable to the reflective mind . The spirit of unrest , followed into the bosom of society , makes of man a feverish being , in whose ...
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319. oldal - Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs.
lvii. oldal - Uncared for, gird the windy grove, And flood the haunts of hern and crake; Or into silver arrows break The sailing moon in creek and cove...
125. oldal - I praise the Frenchman*, his remark was shrewd — How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper — solitude is sweet.
7. oldal - Our outward life requires them not — Then wherefore had they birth ? To minister delight to man — To beautify the earth. To comfort man — to whisper hope, Whene'er his faith is dim ; For Who so careth for the flowers Will much more care for him.
15. oldal - In the United States a man builds a house in which to spend his old age, and he sells it before the roof is on; he plants a garden and lets it just as the trees are coming into bearing; he brings a field into tillage and leaves other men to gather the crops; he embraces a profession and gives it up; he settles in a place, which he soon afterwards leaves to carry his changeable longings elsewhere.
7. oldal - God might have made the earth bring forth Enough for great and small, The oak tree and the cedar tree, Without a flower at all.
198. oldal - Above, below, aerial murmurs swell, From hanging wood, brown heath, and bushy dell ! A thousand nameless rills, that shun the light, Stealing soft music on the ear of night. So oft the finer movements of the soul, That shun the sphere of Pleasure's gay control, In the still shades of calm Seclusion rise, And breathe their sweet, seraphic harmonies...
5. oldal - It is good to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before.
27. oldal - It is the very emblem of a maid; For when the west wind courts her gently, How modestly she blows, and paints the sun With her chaste blushes! When the north comes near her, Rude and impatient, then, like chastity, She locks her beauties in her bud again, And leaves him to base briars.
xxviii. oldal - Angry volumes of politics have we written none, but only peaceful books, humbly aiming to weave something more into the fair garland of the beautiful and useful, that encircles this excellent old Earth.