Ballou's Dollar Monthly Magazine, Volumen 6Elliott, Thomes & Talbot, 1857 |
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Términos y frases comunes
answer appearance arms asked beautiful believe better birds brought called cause child church close course dark dear death door early entered exclaimed eyes face father fear feel feet felt fire flowers followed gave girl give half hand happy Harry head heard heart hope hour husband keep kind king knew known lady leave less light live look married means mind Miss morning mother nature never night once passed person poor present received remained replied returned rose round seemed seen side smile soon speak stand step stood strange taken tell thing thought tion took turned voice whole wife wish woman young
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Página 139 - Ah me! for aught that ever I could read. Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth: But, either it was different in blood; Her.
Página 194 - A rainbow can only occur when the clouds containing, or depositing, the rain are opposite to the sun, — and in the evening the rainbow is in the east, and in the morning in the west ; and as our heavy rains, in this climate, are usually brought by the westerly wind, a rainbow in the west indicates, that the bad weather is on the road, by the wind, to us ; whereas the rainbow in the east proves, that the rain in these clouds is passing from us.
Página 542 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Página 412 - ... air clear and sweet, the springs plentiful, and provision good and easy to come at ; an innumerable quantity of wild fowl and fish : in fine, here is what an Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob would be well contented with ; and service enough for God, for the fields are here white for harvest. 0, how sweet is the quiet of these parts, freed from the anxious and troublesome solicitations, hurries, and perplexities of woeful Europe...
Página 107 - ... to be instantly swallowed. All this is done in a moment, and the bird, as it leaves the flower, sips so small a portion of its liquid honey, that the theft, we may suppose, is looked upon with a grateful feeling by the flower, which is thus kindly relieved from the attacks of her destroyers.
Página 311 - It is very pleasant on this occasion to behold with what sagacity they portion out the lake or the canal where they are upon duty. They hunt, they plunge, they rise a hundred times to the surface, until they have at last found their prey. They then seize it with their beak by the middle, and carry it without fail to their master. When the fish is too large, they then give each other mutual assistance —one seizes it by the head, the other by the tail, and in this manner carry it to the boat together.
Página 72 - Rosseau, that the aim of education should be, to teach us rather how to think, than what to think ; rather to improve our minds so as to enable us to think -for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other mien.
Página 292 - He has beheld beds of them unfolding in due succession as the sunrise stole gradually from flower to flower — a sight not to be hoped for unless when a poet adjusts his inward eye to a proper focus with the outward organ.
Página 120 - I was obliged to cover my head to give a little relief to my ears. The alarm which we spread was so much the more general among these innumerable legions of birds, as we principally disturbed the females which were then sitting. They had nests, eggs, and young to defend. They were like furious harpies let loose against us, and their cries rendered us almost deaf. They often flew so near us that they flapped their wings in our faces, and though we fired our pieces repeatedly we were not able to frighten...
Página 557 - I look as if I had just been cropped for the militia! And I was particularly emphatic in my instructions to the hair-dresser, only to cut the ends off. He must have thought I meant the other ends! Never mind - I shan't meet anybody to care about so early. Eight o'clock, I declare! I haven'ta moment to lose. Fate has placed me with the most punctual, particular and peremptory of hatters, and I must fulfil my destiny. (Knock at LD) Open locks, whoever knocks!