The Waldorf Family: Or, Grandfather's Lagends

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John C. Riker, 1848 - 223 oldal
 

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158. oldal - As far as the eye could reach, nothing was to be seen but reeds which rose five or six feet above the waters in which they bathed their roots.
3. oldal - Embury, that an attractive fairy tale, so thoroughly pervaded by a fine moral truth, that the youthful mind cannot but imbibe its influence, is of far more effective benefit than an overstrained moral tnlo, where improbable incidents, and exaggerated ideas of excellence, tend to give false views of life, and its duties.
4. oldal - And if it was neither the one nor the other, all her fondness for reading could not induce her to accept it. The reason she assigned for this apparent inconsistency was significant of the truthfulness which is still her prevailing trait: "I don't like books that pretend to be true; give me either histories or fairy tales.
102. oldal - I imagined, that both of us were to be kept out of the way as much as possible.
4. oldal - and the quaint simplicity of their details," she has, omitting the trappings of superstition, arrayed them in a garb, thru, without depriving them of their original Breton costume, rendered them presentable to our American children. The illustrations are pretty, and the whole external appearance of the volume, with its gilded covering...
47. oldal - So she took the three leaves of vervain, and rubbing them slowly down the horse's back, from the tips of his ears to the end of his tail, she said.: " Horse of the Sea Begone from me ; Thy task is done, And thy race is tun.
66. oldal - The two eagles were at a little distance, by the tireplace, one acting as turnspit, while the other made up the fire. The noise which the giant made in singing, and the attention he paid to his rashers, prevented him from hearing the approach of Tonyk, and his three little servants ; but the red eagle perceived him, and darting forwards would have seized him in its claws, had not the wasp, at that very moment, pierced its eyes with her diamond sting. The white eagle hurrying to its fellow's aid shared...
168. oldal - To bring you two gifts which he has just received from the country of the Moors,' answered Peronnik: 'the apple of delight and the woman of submission.
169. oldal - Famine was raging in the city, and the soldiers who did not die of their wounds, perished for want of food.
150. oldal - They are worth more than all the crowns in the world," replied the stranger ;

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