The Miscellany,or Evening's Occupation for the Youthful Peasantry of IrelandT.Courtney, 1819 |
Részletek a könyvből
1 - 5 találat összesen 21 találatból.
18. oldal
... less with himself ; for he applied cheerfully to work : and , in autumn , he had the pleasure of seeing his tree fully answer his hopes . Thus he had the double advan- tage , of enriching himself with a splendid crop of fruit ; and at ...
... less with himself ; for he applied cheerfully to work : and , in autumn , he had the pleasure of seeing his tree fully answer his hopes . Thus he had the double advan- tage , of enriching himself with a splendid crop of fruit ; and at ...
20. oldal
... less than ourselves , to life , liberty , and enjoyment . The signs of agony , which , when tormented , they express , by the quick and various con- tortions of their bodies , he neither understood nor regarded . 1 The tutor had a ...
... less than ourselves , to life , liberty , and enjoyment . The signs of agony , which , when tormented , they express , by the quick and various con- tortions of their bodies , he neither understood nor regarded . 1 The tutor had a ...
24. oldal
... but leaves it for other animals , more rapacious and less delicate than himself . Solitary , like the lion , he keeps the desert to himself alone ; it is as extraordinary to see two pair of ea gles in the same mountain , as two lions in 24.
... but leaves it for other animals , more rapacious and less delicate than himself . Solitary , like the lion , he keeps the desert to himself alone ; it is as extraordinary to see two pair of ea gles in the same mountain , as two lions in 24.
29. oldal
... less beautiful at first than those of the old ones . Father Labat , in his account of the mission to America , says , " that his companion found the nest of a humming - bird , in a shed near the dwelling - house : and took it in , at a ...
... less beautiful at first than those of the old ones . Father Labat , in his account of the mission to America , says , " that his companion found the nest of a humming - bird , in a shed near the dwelling - house : and took it in , at a ...
39. oldal
and lives twenty - five or thirty years . He sleeps less than the horse , and does not lie down to rest except when excessively tired . 10001 NATURAL APPEARANCES OF THE YEAR AS DIS- PLAYED IN THE DIFFERENT MONTHS . January . STERN ...
and lives twenty - five or thirty years . He sleeps less than the horse , and does not lie down to rest except when excessively tired . 10001 NATURAL APPEARANCES OF THE YEAR AS DIS- PLAYED IN THE DIFFERENT MONTHS . January . STERN ...
Más kiadások - Összes megtekintése
Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
Almalic Androcles animal Antiparos appear Arab army astonishment autumnal equinox beast beautiful birds body caliph camel cane cardinal catkins cavern cheerfulness climates cold colour cork corn covered cries Damon delight drink eagle earth endeavour eyes father feet fieldfare five crowns flowers fruit gardens give Grecians green tea ground hand happy Hassan heard heart heaven honey horse inhabitants insects juice kind king king of Norway labour Laplanders leaves length Leonidas lion lived look Lucetta manner March ment month morning mother nature ness nest never night perceived Perrin Persian PETRARCH Pigalle plants poor praise Pythias quadrupeds rose Scipio season seeds sheep shrub sleep snow soon spring stranger struck sugar cane sweet tender Tetuan thee ther thou tion took torpid tree virtue weather whole winds wings winter Xerxes young youth
Népszerű szakaszok
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.