The Burges Letters: A Record of Child Life in the SixtiesLongmans, Green, 1902 - Počet stran: 142 |
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Strana 66 - Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care. And come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day. Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
Strana 98 - She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
Strana 42 - We've no abiding city here ; Then let us live as pilgrims do : Let not the world our rest appear, But let us haste from all below. 4 We've no abiding city here...
Strana 83 - We all remember the old nursery rhyme about the old woman who lived in a shoe, who had so many children she didn't know what to do.
Strana 41 - Should swift death this night o'ertake us, And our couch become our tomb ; May the morn, in heaven awake us, Clad in light and deathless bloom.
Strana 51 - a wife was only a fin canister tied to one's tail," upon which Sheridan presented Lady liiskine with these lines : Lord Erskine at woman presuming to rail, Calls a wife " a tin canister tied to one's tail," And fair Lady Anne while the subject he carries on, Seems hurt at his lordship's degrading comparison.
Strana 123 - Who beat his younger brother, Bill, And threw him in the dirt; And when his poor Mamma was ill, He teased her for a squirt. " And I," said Tom, " won't play with Sam, Although he has a top: But here the pretty little lamb To talking put a stop.
Strana 52 - A tin canister's useful, and polished, and bright, And if dirt its original purity hide, 'Tis the fault of the puppy to whom it is tied.