Little Folks: A Magazine for the YoungCassell, 1882 |
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... things with her , " he thought , laughing quietly to himself at the oddness and absurdity of the whole thing . " Of course it is some mistake . I wonder whether the servants can explain it ? " So he continued his tiptoe walk to the door ...
... things with her , " he thought , laughing quietly to himself at the oddness and absurdity of the whole thing . " Of course it is some mistake . I wonder whether the servants can explain it ? " So he continued his tiptoe walk to the door ...
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... thing to do is to fix cn our design - diamonds , squares , octagons , hexagons , ovals , or any of the hundred forms and arrange- ments of them we may fancy . The next thing is to go to a tinsmith and have the shapes cut out by him in ...
... thing to do is to fix cn our design - diamonds , squares , octagons , hexagons , ovals , or any of the hundred forms and arrange- ments of them we may fancy . The next thing is to go to a tinsmith and have the shapes cut out by him in ...
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... things would have lasted it is impossible to say , had not Mabel suddenly and unexpectedly sneezed with such violence ... thing about your being expected . So this is little Mabel , " and taking her face between his hands he imprinted a ...
... things would have lasted it is impossible to say , had not Mabel suddenly and unexpectedly sneezed with such violence ... thing about your being expected . So this is little Mabel , " and taking her face between his hands he imprinted a ...
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... thing , and then to another , informed him that he might give her this , and that " Rose liked that . " But with regard to the young lady's diet , Mrs. Bridget stood by , firm and inexorable . She scorned the idea of a cutlet or egg as ...
... thing , and then to another , informed him that he might give her this , and that " Rose liked that . " But with regard to the young lady's diet , Mrs. Bridget stood by , firm and inexorable . She scorned the idea of a cutlet or egg as ...
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... thing is my brother's child . He was sending her home to me , and the ship must have been wrecked . We shall have to make changes in the house , Bridget . She will live here , and I must get a nurse for her . " Bridget was greatly ...
... thing is my brother's child . He was sending her home to me , and the ship must have been wrecked . We shall have to make changes in the house , Bridget . She will live here , and I must get a nurse for her . " Bridget was greatly ...
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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...