The Token: A Christmas and New Year's Present, Volume 1Samuel Griswold Goodrich Gray and Bowem, 1831 - 350 pages |
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... remained content with this simple and useful profession . Would that I had stuck to my waxed ends and awl , and never un- dertaken to cobble up people's bodies . But my legs grew tired of being trussed beneath my haunches ; my elbows ...
... remained content with this simple and useful profession . Would that I had stuck to my waxed ends and awl , and never un- dertaken to cobble up people's bodies . But my legs grew tired of being trussed beneath my haunches ; my elbows ...
Page 170
... remained with their dry straggling branches , stood on each side of the avenue like a procession of mourners . In win- ter there is but little for a farmer to do , except fod- dering his cattle and preparing for the coming spring . Mr ...
... remained with their dry straggling branches , stood on each side of the avenue like a procession of mourners . In win- ter there is but little for a farmer to do , except fod- dering his cattle and preparing for the coming spring . Mr ...
Page 176
... remained the same . We were now near the parsonage - house . I asked no questions , for I was willing to wait the develope- ment of circumstances . I was not much surprised when we turned up the avenue that led to the old fashioned ...
... remained the same . We were now near the parsonage - house . I asked no questions , for I was willing to wait the develope- ment of circumstances . I was not much surprised when we turned up the avenue that led to the old fashioned ...
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... remained till the year 1818 , at the risk of being shot or scalped every time I poked my nose beyond the shadow of my country's war - flag . At last , I could bear it no longer , and having got some reputation among the Kansa chiefs by ...
... remained till the year 1818 , at the risk of being shot or scalped every time I poked my nose beyond the shadow of my country's war - flag . At last , I could bear it no longer , and having got some reputation among the Kansa chiefs by ...
Page 202
... remained to this day , but for a war which broke out with the Osages . The great and little Osages are slow of anger , but unappeasable as death after they once take the field . They were now coming forth in battle array , to decide a ...
... remained to this day , but for a war which broke out with the Osages . The great and little Osages are slow of anger , but unappeasable as death after they once take the field . They were now coming forth in battle array , to decide a ...
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The Token: Christmas and New Year's Present (Classic Reprint) Samuel Griswold Goodrich No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 32 - I am as a man that hath no strength: free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps. Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves.
Page 35 - Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since, their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage: their decay Has dried up realms to deserts; not so thou; Unchangeable save to thy wild waves play.
Page 188 - Albeit thou dost not see my face the while. Yes — thou canst hear — and He Who on thy sightless eye its darkness hung, To the attentive ear like harps hath strung Heaven, and earth, and sea ! And 'tis a lesson in our hearts to know, With but one sense the soul may overflow ! 1.
Page 43 - ... inhabitants! The most desirable mode of existence might be that of a spiritualized Paul Pry, hovering invisible round man and woman, witnessing their deeds, searching into their hearts, borrowing brightness from their felicity, and shade from their sorrow, and retaining no emotion peculiar to himself. But none of these things are possible ; and if I would know the interior of brick walls, or the mystery of human bosoms, I can but guess.
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Page 140 - Tis midnight — all is peace profound ! But, lo ! upon the murmuring ground, The lonely, swelling, hurrying sound Of distant wheels is heard ! They come — they pause a moment — when.
Page 246 - THE harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled. So sleeps the pride of former days, So glory's thrill is o'er, And hearts that once beat high for praise Now feel that pulse no more.
Page 33 - ... oft: Of every cloud which in the heavens might stir I knew the force; and hence the rough sea's pride Availed not to my Vessel's overthrow. What noble pomp and frequent have not I On regal decks beheld ! yet in the end I learned that one poor moment can suffice To equalize the lofty and the low. We sail the sea of life...
Page 41 - O that I could soar up into the very zenith, where man never breathed, nor eagle ever flew, and where the ethereal azure melts away from the eye, and appears only a deepened shade of nothingness ! And yet I shiver at that cold and solitary thought.