Peter Parley's Annual: A Christmas and New Year's Present for Young People..William Martin Darton and Company, 1870 |
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Pagina 21
... seen - a very promis- ing sign that their bivouac was likely to pass off without a surprise from the enemy . Alfred , who was in command , im- mediately ordered John off on " foraging duty , " and duly kept guard himself over the ...
... seen - a very promis- ing sign that their bivouac was likely to pass off without a surprise from the enemy . Alfred , who was in command , im- mediately ordered John off on " foraging duty , " and duly kept guard himself over the ...
Pagina 33
... seen , and would have conveniently fitted into a quart jug . But he made up in frolic and mischief for his want of size ; and not unfrequently those qualities involved him in serious trouble . One or two of the misdemeanours D are well ...
... seen , and would have conveniently fitted into a quart jug . But he made up in frolic and mischief for his want of size ; and not unfrequently those qualities involved him in serious trouble . One or two of the misdemeanours D are well ...
Pagina 39
... expeditions went and failed , geographers - as may be seen from the map of Juan Jansonia - yet marked down the imaginary Manao as situate to the west of Lake Parimo . It is strange that such a man as Walter Raleigh EL DORADO . 39.
... expeditions went and failed , geographers - as may be seen from the map of Juan Jansonia - yet marked down the imaginary Manao as situate to the west of Lake Parimo . It is strange that such a man as Walter Raleigh EL DORADO . 39.
Pagina 52
... glorious guests were gone . Yet is not life , in its real flight , Mark'd thus - seen thus - on earth , By the closing of one hope's delight , And another's gentle birth ! Oh ! let us live so that flower by flower 52 FLORA'S CLOCKS .
... glorious guests were gone . Yet is not life , in its real flight , Mark'd thus - seen thus - on earth , By the closing of one hope's delight , And another's gentle birth ! Oh ! let us live so that flower by flower 52 FLORA'S CLOCKS .
Pagina 64
... seen ? How , and where , and what hast seen , Thou art telling now , I ween ; And , sweet , thy tale , though in such lore , I'm little wiser than before . Fain would I know thy trackless route- But as thou canst not tell it out In ...
... seen ? How , and where , and what hast seen , Thou art telling now , I ween ; And , sweet , thy tale , though in such lore , I'm little wiser than before . Fain would I know thy trackless route- But as thou canst not tell it out In ...
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amongst animals answered Jonathan arms beautiful Benkelaer birds blessed called Charles of Blois Christmas Cicero colour common hazel creature cried cuckoo curate dame Lys Daniel Defoe dead dear Defoe delighted divers Eagle exclaimed eyes face farmer father fear Fennimore fish Fitz Osbert flowers George Melville gold gypsies hand happy HATTON GARDEN head heard heart hedge-sparrow horse Indians insect John John Faa king labour Leonardo Leydel Little Egypt Liza look Mappel master merry mind monkey morning nest never night nuts once panniers Paramaribo pearl Peter pony poor Punch and Judy Robinson Crusoe round seen Seybel shell ship Signal Hill snow soon squirrel Surinam tell Tewson things thou thought tiger told took tree Vanderhaan Wolverine wonderful wood young youth
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Pagina 191 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Pagina 114 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
Pagina 140 - St Agnes' Eve — Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold ; The hare limp'd trembling through the frozen grass, And silent was the flock in woolly fold : Numb were the Beadsman's fingers, while he told His rosary, and while his frosted breath, Like pious incense from a censer old, Seem'd taking flight for heaven, without a death, Past the sweet Virgin's picture, while his prayer he saith...
Pagina 18 - The bow well bent and smart the spring, Vice seems already slain, But passion rudely snaps the string, And it revives again.
Pagina 278 - Tringse coursing along the sands ; trains of Ducks streaming over the surface ; silent and watchful Cranes, intent and wading ; clamorous Crows ; and all the winged multitudes that subsist by the bounty of this vast liquid magazine of Nature. High over all these hovers one whose action instantly arrests all his attention. By his wide curvature of wing and sudden suspension in air, he knows him to be the Fish-hawk, settling over some devoted victim of the deep.
Pagina 281 - Eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of reaching his opponent, when, with a sudden scream, probably of despair and honest execration, the latter drops his fish : the Eagle, poising himself for a moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods.
Pagina 278 - Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear, as it disappears in the deep, making the surges foam around ! At this moment the eager looks of the eagle are all...
Pagina 210 - In the world's broad field of battle. In the bivouac of life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife ! Trust no future, howe'er pleasant!
Pagina 149 - Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls : who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
Pagina 140 - When icicles hang by the wall And Dick the shepherd blows his nail And Tom bears logs into the hall And milk comes frozen home in pail...