The Miscellany,or Evening's Occupation for the Youthful Peasantry of IrelandT.Courtney, 1819 |
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34. oldal
... climate , that never knows a winter , suits his cons'itution , which naturally seems adapted to heat . In those countries , the horses are often seen feeding in droves of five or six hundred . As they do not carry on war against any ...
... climate , that never knows a winter , suits his cons'itution , which naturally seems adapted to heat . In those countries , the horses are often seen feeding in droves of five or six hundred . As they do not carry on war against any ...
46. oldal
... climate from the ri gour of the northern winters begin to leave us , and return to the countries where they were bred . The redwing , fieldfare , and woodcock , are of this kind , and retire to spend their summer in Norway , Sweden ...
... climate from the ri gour of the northern winters begin to leave us , and return to the countries where they were bred . The redwing , fieldfare , and woodcock , are of this kind , and retire to spend their summer in Norway , Sweden ...
50. oldal
... climates more southern than ours . In such , it really unites all the soft beau- ties of spring with the brightness of summer ; and has warmth enough to cheer and invigo rate , without overpowering . With us , great part of the month is ...
... climates more southern than ours . In such , it really unites all the soft beau- ties of spring with the brightness of summer ; and has warmth enough to cheer and invigo rate , without overpowering . With us , great part of the month is ...
54. oldal
... climates . The latter part of June is the beginning of hay - harvest , for the southern and middle parts of the kingdom . This is one of the most busy and agreeable of rural occupations . Both sexes and all ages are engaged in it . The ...
... climates . The latter part of June is the beginning of hay - harvest , for the southern and middle parts of the kingdom . This is one of the most busy and agreeable of rural occupations . Both sexes and all ages are engaged in it . The ...
57. oldal
... climates . The farmer's chief employment in July is , getting home the various products of the earth . It is the principal hay - month in some part of the country , and the work - people suffer much fatigue from the excessive heat to ...
... climates . The farmer's chief employment in July is , getting home the various products of the earth . It is the principal hay - month in some part of the country , and the work - people suffer much fatigue from the excessive heat to ...
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65. oldal - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away.
145. oldal - The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn.
104. oldal - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as, at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between...
14. oldal - South ? Youths and maidens, tell me, if you know, who is she, and what is her name ? Who is he, that cometh with sober pace, stealing upon us unawares ? His garments are red with the blood of the grape, and his temples are bound with a sheaf of ripe wheat.
31. oldal - I have seen the insects sporting in the sunshine, and darting along the streams ; their wings glittered with gold and purple ; their bodies shone like the green emerald ; they were more numerous than I could count ; their motions were quicker than my eye could glance. I returned : they were brushed into the pool ; they were perishing with the evening breeze ; the swallow had CHAT. IV. DESCRIPTIVE PIECES. 'ff> devoured them ; the pike had seized them : there were none found of so great a multitude.
145. oldal - Mercy's voice has hush'd the blast ; The wind is heard in whispers low ; The white man far away must go ; — But ever, in his heart, will bear Remembrance of the Negro's care.
144. oldal - The rites of hospitality being thus performed towards a stranger in distress, my worthy benefactress (pointing to the mat, and telling me I might sleep there without apprehension) called to the female part of her family, who had stood gazing on me all tha while in fixed astonishment, to resume their task of spinning cotton ; in which they continued to employ themselves great part of the night.
159. oldal - I will not live after thee." He was not by any means to be forced from the body, but was removed with it bleeding in his arms, and attended with tears by all their comrades who knew their enmity.
174. oldal - This advice, thus beat into my head, has frequently been of use to me; and I often think of it, when I see pride mortified, and misfortunes brought upon people by their carrying their heads too high.
174. oldal - I did not understand him till I felt my head hit against the beam. He was a man that never missed any occasion of giving instruction, and upon this he said to me, ''You are young and have the world before you. Stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many hard thumps.