Madam How and Lady Why; OrMacmillan and Company, 1885 - 321 páginas |
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... believe it --- that Master William has been over the very same ground as Master Robert , who saw nothing at all . Whereon Mr. Andrews says , wisely enough , in his solemn , old - fashioned way- " So it is . One man walks through the ...
... believe it --- that Master William has been over the very same ground as Master Robert , who saw nothing at all . Whereon Mr. Andrews says , wisely enough , in his solemn , old - fashioned way- " So it is . One man walks through the ...
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... believe , half finished yet . How do I know all that ? Because a fairy told it me ; a fairy who lives up here upon the moor , and indeed in most places else , if people have but eyes to see her . What is her name ? I cannot tell . The ...
... believe , half finished yet . How do I know all that ? Because a fairy told it me ; a fairy who lives up here upon the moor , and indeed in most places else , if people have but eyes to see her . What is her name ? I cannot tell . The ...
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... believe , would not make us proud , as if we had had some great privilege . No , my dear child : it would make ust feel smaller , and meaner , and more stupid and more ignorant than we had ever felt in our lives before ; at the same ...
... believe , would not make us proud , as if we had had some great privilege . No , my dear child : it would make ust feel smaller , and meaner , and more stupid and more ignorant than we had ever felt in our lives before ; at the same ...
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... believe on excellent grounds that her reason is a very good one . If I dare to guess , I should say that one reason , at least , why fire burns , is that you may take care not to play with it , and so not only scorch your finger , but ...
... believe on excellent grounds that her reason is a very good one . If I dare to guess , I should say that one reason , at least , why fire burns , is that you may take care not to play with it , and so not only scorch your finger , but ...
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... believe that Madam How knows her work so thoroughly , that the grain of sand which sticks now to your shoe , and the weight of Mrs. Daddy- long - legs ' eggs at the bottom of her hole , will have an effect upon suns and stars ages after ...
... believe that Madam How knows her work so thoroughly , that the grain of sand which sticks now to your shoe , and the weight of Mrs. Daddy- long - legs ' eggs at the bottom of her hole , will have an effect upon suns and stars ages after ...
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Página 138 - As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled.
Página 29 - When he gave to the sea his decree, That the waters should not pass his commandment: When he appointed the foundations of the earth : Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: And I was daily his delight, Rejoicing always before him ; Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth ; And my delights were with the sons of men.
Página 160 - I wind about, and in and out, With here a blossom sailing, And here and there a lusty trout, And here and there a grayling ; And here and there a foamy flake Upon me, as I travel, With many a silvery waterbreak Above the golden gravel, — And draw them all along, and flow To join the brimming river ; For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.
Página 69 - There is a path which no fowl knoweth, And which the vulture's eye hath not seen: The lion's whelps have not trodden it, Nor the fierce lion passed by it.