Autumn Hours and Fireside ReadingCharles Scribner, 1854 - 311 páginas |
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... Nature neither placed it there to please the artist , nor will remove it to gratify the farmer . It is for those who can use it , and pursues not those who cannot . The multiplicity of books is not surprising . There needs many to suit ...
... Nature neither placed it there to please the artist , nor will remove it to gratify the farmer . It is for those who can use it , and pursues not those who cannot . The multiplicity of books is not surprising . There needs many to suit ...
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... repose ! Who would not make books ! Tourists are proverbial for book - making , and certain critics . seem to feel annoyed by the propensity ; yet how natural is it ! To travel and not tell , ' is superhuman . 14 INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER .
... repose ! Who would not make books ! Tourists are proverbial for book - making , and certain critics . seem to feel annoyed by the propensity ; yet how natural is it ! To travel and not tell , ' is superhuman . 14 INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER .
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... Nature as if she were an idiot , capable only of unintelligible mutterings , not worth atten- tion . But in this way we may make drones or hypocrites of all but the finest and highest spirits . Books that will excite curi- osity are ...
... Nature as if she were an idiot , capable only of unintelligible mutterings , not worth atten- tion . But in this way we may make drones or hypocrites of all but the finest and highest spirits . Books that will excite curi- osity are ...
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... nature . Invalids look solemn when they see others eating pine - apples ; tolerably well people , even , will tell you that strawberries are poison ; but are they so ? It is often said that nobody is perfectly well , and it is equally ...
... nature . Invalids look solemn when they see others eating pine - apples ; tolerably well people , even , will tell you that strawberries are poison ; but are they so ? It is often said that nobody is perfectly well , and it is equally ...
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... natural growth of the subject or intent ; and even for a miscel laneous gathering , grave and gay , it used to be distinctive enough to call it such . Yet there has always been confessed some difficulty about the naming of books , and ...
... natural growth of the subject or intent ; and even for a miscel laneous gathering , grave and gay , it used to be distinctive enough to call it such . Yet there has always been confessed some difficulty about the naming of books , and ...
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admiration Aldis Amos Lawrence amusement Ashmore Aunt Susan Austin beauty body brought called chapter character charm comfortable dare dear delicate delight Dibble dinner dress Dudley duties dyspepsia Egeria elegant Ellis's Enfield excitement eyes face fancy fashionable father fear feel felt friends gave George Fountain girl give grace habits happy heart Henry Ellis honor hope human husband imagination indulgence John Katherine Katherine's kind knew ladies light live look marriage Marston Mary mind Miss Berry Miss Grove Miss Ingoldsby morning mother nature never object Ode to Duty once ourselves party perhaps Piercefield Piers Ploughman pleasure poor quiet racter scene seemed Sir Henry Clinton sister soon soul spirit summer sure sweet sympathy taste tender thing thought tion Titmouse truth uncon Whipple whole wife wife's wise woman women wonder young
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Página 144 - There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them; who, in love and truth Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth: Glad hearts! without reproach or blot, Who do thy work, and know it not: Oh ! if through confidence misplaced They fail, thy saving arms, dread Power!
Página 43 - Beauty is Nature's brag, and must be shown In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities Where most may wonder at the workmanship; It is for homely features to keep home...
Página 230 - All the sweetness of beauty, all the loveliness of innocence, all the tenderness of a wife and all the fondness of a mother showed themselves in her appearance and conduct.
Página 160 - TEARS, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.
Página 222 - ... with gore from a dreadful wound across the temple. I put my hand on the bloody face; 'twas warm; and an unknown voice begged for water. A small camp-kettle was lying near, and a stream of water was close by.
Página 144 - Serene will be our days and bright, And happy will our nature be, When love is an unerring light, And joy its own security. And they a blissful course may hold Even now, who, not unwisely bold, Live in the spirit of this creed; Yet seek thy firm support, according to their need.
Página 228 - The Marquis De Chastellux, who was in Philadelphia while these efforts were in progress, was delighted with the event. In describing a visit to several of the American ladies, he says, " We began by Mrs. Bache. She merits all the anxiety we had to see her, for she is the daughter of Mr. Franklin. Simple in her manners, like her respectable father, she possesses his benevolence. She conducted us into a room filled with work, lately finished by the ladies of Philadelphia. This work consisted neither...
Página 79 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Página 222 - how came you here ?' "'Oh, I thought, 'replied I, 'you would need nurses as well as soldiers.
Página 223 - I believe you,' said Frank. Just then I looked up, and my husband, as bloody as a butcher, and as muddy as a ditcher,* stood before me. " ' Why, Mary ! ' he exclaimed, ' "What are you doing there ? Hugging Frank Cogdell, the greatest reprobate in the army?' " 'I dont care,' I cried. ' Frank is a brave fellow, a good soldier, and a true friend to Congress.