Little Folks: A Magazine for the YoungCassell, 1882 |
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... course it is some mistake . I wonder whether the servants can explain it ? " So he continued his tiptoe walk to the door of the room , and then , running downstairs , rang the dining - room bell violently . " What is the meaning of all ...
... course it is some mistake . I wonder whether the servants can explain it ? " So he continued his tiptoe walk to the door of the room , and then , running downstairs , rang the dining - room bell violently . " What is the meaning of all ...
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... course , " I remain your affectionate " -what ? What indeed ? When held close to the gas , the next word could be clearly read , though it had been indistinguishable in the dimmer light ; none of it was erased , it was only very , very ...
... course , " I remain your affectionate " -what ? What indeed ? When held close to the gas , the next word could be clearly read , though it had been indistinguishable in the dimmer light ; none of it was erased , it was only very , very ...
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... course it had all become perfectly cold long before , and there was no knowing when she would get it now , as that troublesome child must be found first . Very irate were her feelings towards the little absentee ; whilst Miss Howard's ...
... course it had all become perfectly cold long before , and there was no knowing when she would get it now , as that troublesome child must be found first . Very irate were her feelings towards the little absentee ; whilst Miss Howard's ...
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... course include those of the Eight Competitions announced on page 58 of this number , as well as of all other competitions during the period named . It should be under- stood by Competitors that one bronze medal only is sent to each of ...
... course include those of the Eight Competitions announced on page 58 of this number , as well as of all other competitions during the period named . It should be under- stood by Competitors that one bronze medal only is sent to each of ...
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... course , she must get home , even if they didn't have tea . Tea wasn't much . She didn't care about it . Twenty miles to go . she'd never get home . But try as she would , her legs wouldn't go . They had just the same sort of feeling ...
... course , she must get home , even if they didn't have tea . Tea wasn't much . She didn't care about it . Twenty miles to go . she'd never get home . But try as she would , her legs wouldn't go . They had just the same sort of feeling ...
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Page 258 - High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing surprised: But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing...
Page 119 - Go, from the creatures thy instructions take: Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Page 51 - He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. " He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small ; For the dear God who loveth us He made and loveth all.
Page 281 - Come, my Corinna, come ! and, coming, mark How each field turns a street, each street a park Made green, and trimmed with trees ; see how Devotion gives each house a bough, Or branch; each porch, each door, ere this An ark, a tabernacle is, Made up of white thorn neatly interwove ; As if here were those cooler shades of love.
Page 318 - No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet — But hark! — that heavy sound breaks in once more, As if the clouds its echo would repeat; And nearer, clearer, deadlier than before! Arm! Arm! it is — it is — the cannon's opening roar! Within a windowed niche of that high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain...
Page 297 - And Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon , but they came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus the king's chamberlain their friend, desired peace; because their country was nourished by the king's country.
Page 43 - But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets; until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people till there was no remedy.
Page 317 - The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath, Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior...
Page 243 - Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
Page 119 - Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. Here too all forms of social union find, And hence let Reason, late, instruct mankind: Here subterranean works and cities see ; There towns aerial on the waving tree. Learn each small people's genius, policies, The ants...