Peter Parley's Annual: A Christmas and New Year's Present for Young People..William Martin Darton and Company, 1852 |
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... matter . Those who wish to become proficient in skating should begin at an early period of life , and should first endeavour to throw off all fear . They will soon acquire a facility of moving on the inside edges of their skates ; when ...
... matter . Those who wish to become proficient in skating should begin at an early period of life , and should first endeavour to throw off all fear . They will soon acquire a facility of moving on the inside edges of their skates ; when ...
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... matter , is called the axis of the zoophyte ; as it seems to support the softer substance of the animal , it may be said to perform the office of the skeleton in the higher orders of animals by giving form and protection to the entire ...
... matter , is called the axis of the zoophyte ; as it seems to support the softer substance of the animal , it may be said to perform the office of the skeleton in the higher orders of animals by giving form and protection to the entire ...
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... sand , and various other matters , gradually become fixed upon it ; and afterwards , the seed of plants , or trunks of trees , washed from the great rivers of other countries and islands , find here a resting - place , till at last.
... sand , and various other matters , gradually become fixed upon it ; and afterwards , the seed of plants , or trunks of trees , washed from the great rivers of other countries and islands , find here a resting - place , till at last.
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... matter , by way of answer . Because , " says he , " the Gentiles dedicated the month of February to the infernal gods , and as , at the beginning of it , Pluto stole Proserpine , and her mother ( Ceres ) sought her in the night with ...
... matter , by way of answer . Because , " says he , " the Gentiles dedicated the month of February to the infernal gods , and as , at the beginning of it , Pluto stole Proserpine , and her mother ( Ceres ) sought her in the night with ...
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... matter of some surprise to find that a tree bearing small and unpalatable fruit may be cut down , and the remaining part grafted with a scion from a species bearing large and delicious fruit , instead of the small , sour , fruit of the ...
... matter of some surprise to find that a tree bearing small and unpalatable fruit may be cut down , and the remaining part grafted with a scion from a species bearing large and delicious fruit , instead of the small , sour , fruit of the ...
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animals appear April fool beautiful birds boys brown dwarfs buds bullfinches buttons called Candlemas canvas captain carronades clock cold colour copper coral dance dark delight dwarfs earth England eyes feet festival floor cloth flowers foot garden give gold green gutta gutta percha hand happy head heart horses Hottentots Iceland islands Isthmian games Joe Row Kaffirs KAFFIRS AND HOTTENTOTS kind King leek light look manufacture metal month mould mountains nations nature nuthatch old Peter Parley paint pattern percha Peter Parley pirate plants porifera race Robin Goodfellow rocks round season seems silver sing Sir William Parsons skate snow sometimes soon sponge spring stiffer and thicker surface thick trees tribes variety various vegetable vein vessel watch wheels whole wild wind winter wood Wyclif young friends
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Page 187 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end, Then lies him down, the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength; And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Page 189 - And frolic it, with ho, ho, ho ! Sometimes I meet them like a man, Sometimes an ox, sometimes a hound ; And to a horse I turn me can, To trip and trot about them round. But if to ride My back they stride, More swift than wind away I go, O'er hedge and lands, Through pools and ponds, I hurry, laughing, ho, ho, ho...
Page 189 - And while they sleepe and take their ease, With wheel to threads their flax I pull. I grind at mill Their malt up still ; I dress their hemp, I spin their tow, If any 'wake, And would me take, I wend me, laughing, ho, ho, ho...
Page 195 - The poetry of earth is never dead: When all the birds are faint with the hot Sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead. That is the grasshopper's : he takes the lead In summer luxury — he has never done With his delights, for when tired out with fun, He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.
Page 191 - I leap out laughing, ho, ho, ho! By wells and rills, in meadows green, We nightly dance our heyday guise; And to our fairy king and queen We chant our moonlight minstrelsies.
Page 6 - The verdure of the plain lies buried deep Beneath the dazzling deluge; and the bents, And coarser grass, upspearing o'er the rest, Of late unsightly and unseen, now shine Conspicuous, and in bright apparel clad, And fledged with icy feathers, nod superb.
Page 129 - And sung their thankful hymns; 'tis sin, Nay, profanation to keep in, When as a thousand virgins on this day Spring, sooner than the lark, to fetch in May.
Page 3 - It betokeneth warmth and growth ; If west, much milk, and fish in the sea ; If north, much cold, and storms there will be ; If cast, the trees will bear much fruit If north-east, flee it man and brute.
Page 5 - Then came old January, wrapped well In many weeds to keep the cold away; Yet did he quake and quiver, like to quell, And blowe his nayles to warme them if he may; For they were numbd with holding all the day An hatchet keene, with which he felled wood...
Page 129 - The dew-bespangling herbe and tree. Each flower has wept, and bow'd toward the east, Above an houre since ; yet you not drest, Nay ! not so much as out of bed ? When all the birds have mattens...