Country Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago: Personal Recollections and Reminiscences of a SexagenarianHunter, Rose and Company, 1885 - 303 oldal |
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216. oldal - O solitude, where are the charms Which sages have seen in thy face- ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place. " With the first glimmer of the morning's light all hands are up and at work. A small space is cleared away, trees are felled, and in due time a house is built—
241. oldal - man took and sowed in his field, which indeed is the least of all seeds, but when it is grown it is the greatest- among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that
79. oldal - Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth about, Content to let the north wind roar, In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The frost line back with tropic heat.
80. oldal - glow. O time and change ! with hair as gray As was my sire's that winter day, How strange it seems, with so much gone Of life and love, to still live on ! Ah brother^ only I and thou Are left of all
157. oldal - which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices both private and public of peace and war.
58. oldal - solitariness. Give me, Master Zimmerman, a sympathetic solitude. " To pace alone in the cloisters, or side aisles of some cathedral, time-stricken; Or under hanging mountains, Or by the fall of fountains ; is but a vulgar luxury, compared with that which those enjoy who come together for the purposes of more complete, abstracted solitude. This is the loneliness
55. oldal - Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; and they shall be one
224. oldal - upon the families who had adhered to the unity of the Empire, and joined the royal standard in America, before the treaty of separation in the year 1783." A list of such persons was directed in
79. oldal - The whited air Hides hills and woods, the river and the heaven, And veils the farm-house at the garden's end
58. oldal - what a lesson dost thou read to council and to consistory !—if my pen treat of you lightly—as haply it will wander—yet my spirit hath gravely felt the wisdom of your custom, when sitting among you in deepest peace, which some outwelling tears would rather confirm than disturb, I have reverted to the times of your beginnings, and the sowings of the seed by Fox