Gleanings from popular authors, grave and gay, Volume 11882 |
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... days of multiplicity of publications , and ease of communication with goodly libraries , there should be no difficulty in at once finding something to interest a public or private reader , laid down . A MY CHILD - WIFE . * [ From " Devid.
... days of multiplicity of publications , and ease of communication with goodly libraries , there should be no difficulty in at once finding something to interest a public or private reader , laid down . A MY CHILD - WIFE . * [ From " Devid.
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... wife trying to be good . First of all , she would bring out the immense account book , and lay it down upon the table , with a deep sigh . Then she would open it at the place where Jip had made it legre last night , and call Jip up to ...
... wife trying to be good . First of all , she would bring out the immense account book , and lay it down upon the table , with a deep sigh . Then she would open it at the place where Jip had made it legre last night , and call Jip up to ...
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... wife running in the sunlight with her old friend Jip . MY CHILD - WIFE . * [ From " David. Please let me hold the pens , " said Dora . " I want to have something to do with all those many hours when you are so industrious . May I hold ...
... wife running in the sunlight with her old friend Jip . MY CHILD - WIFE . * [ From " David. Please let me hold the pens , " said Dora . " I want to have something to do with all those many hours when you are so industrious . May I hold ...
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... wife trying to be good . First of all , she would bring out the immense account - book , and lay it down upon the table , with a deep sigh . Then she would open it at the place where Jip had made it illegible last night , and call Jip ...
... wife trying to be good . First of all , she would bring out the immense account - book , and lay it down upon the table , with a deep sigh . Then she would open it at the place where Jip had made it illegible last night , and call Jip ...
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... wife . I occasionally made a pretence of wanting a page or two of manuscript copied . Then Dora was in her glory . The preparations she made for this great work , the aprons she put on , the bibs she borrowed from the kitchen to keep ...
... wife . I occasionally made a pretence of wanting a page or two of manuscript copied . Then Dora was in her glory . The preparations she made for this great work , the aprons she put on , the bibs she borrowed from the kitchen to keep ...
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Popular passages
Page 13 - With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags Plying her needle and thread — Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, Would that its tone could reach the rich ! She sang this "Song of the Shirt.
Page 13 - Work - work work Till the brain begins to swim! Work - work - work Till the eyes are heavy and dim! Seam , and gusset , and band , Band , and gusset , and seam , Till over the buttons I fall asleep, And sew them on in a dream! "O men with sisters dear! O men with mothers and wives! It is not linen you're wearing out , But human creatures
Page 111 - With throats unslaked, with black lips baked, Agape they heard me call : Gramercy! they for joy did grin, And all at once their breath drew in, As they were drinking all. See! see! (I cried) she tacks no more! Hither to work us weal; Without a breeze, without a tide, She steadies with upright keel!
Page 109 - The Wedding-Guest sat on a stone : He cannot choose but hear ; And thus spake on that ancient man, The bright-eyed Mariner.
Page 73 - Hear the sledges with the bells Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Page 73 - Hear the loud alarum bells, Brazen bells ! What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells ! In the startled ear of night How they screa,m out their affright ! Too much horrified to speak, They can only shriek, shriek, Out of tune, In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire...
Page 113 - I looked to heaven, and tried to pray ; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as dust.
Page 25 - ... Rip Van Winkle! Rip Van Winkle!" — at the same time Wolf bristled up his back and giving a low growl, skulked to his master's side, looking fearfully down into the glen. Rip now felt a vague apprehension stealing over him; he looked anxiously in the same direction and perceived a strange figure slowly toiling up the rocks and bending under the weight of something he carried on his back. He was surprised to see any human being in this lonely and unfrequented place, but supposing it to be some...
Page 25 - As they ascended, Rip every now and then heard long rolling peals, like distant thunder, that seemed to issue out of a deep ravine, or rather cleft, between lofty rocks, toward which their rugged path conducted.