Evenings at Home; Or, The Juvenile Budget Opened:: Consisting of a Variety of Miscellaneous Pieces for the Instruction and Amusement of Young Persons, Volum 1Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, ... and R. Hunter, successor to J. Johnson, 1819 |
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Pàgina 52
... clothes for the next ball ; ' there's a white slip all full of spangles , and pink ribbons ; you can't think how beautiful it looks . Mrs. M. And what did you admire most of all these fine things ? Sally . I don't know - I admired them ...
... clothes for the next ball ; ' there's a white slip all full of spangles , and pink ribbons ; you can't think how beautiful it looks . Mrs. M. And what did you admire most of all these fine things ? Sally . I don't know - I admired them ...
Pàgina 59
... clothes will then cost more , you know . Then if we were now to hire a coach or chair for you to go a visiting in , should you like to leave it off ever afterwards ? But you have no reason to expect that you will be able to have those ...
... clothes will then cost more , you know . Then if we were now to hire a coach or chair for you to go a visiting in , should you like to leave it off ever afterwards ? But you have no reason to expect that you will be able to have those ...
Pàgina 89
... clothes are in proper condition , and assist in making and mending for myself , and you , and your papa . All this is my necessary duty ; and besides this , I must go out a visiting to keep up our acquaintance ; this I call partly ...
... clothes are in proper condition , and assist in making and mending for myself , and you , and your papa . All this is my necessary duty ; and besides this , I must go out a visiting to keep up our acquaintance ; this I call partly ...
Pàgina 99
... clothes and pocket - money , and other expenses , as I intend you shall do when you grow up . K. Am I not to learn dancing , and music , and drawing too , mamma ? M. Dancing you shall certainly learn pretty soon , because it is not only ...
... clothes and pocket - money , and other expenses , as I intend you shall do when you grow up . K. Am I not to learn dancing , and music , and drawing too , mamma ? M. Dancing you shall certainly learn pretty soon , because it is not only ...
Pàgina 120
... - ceived the mischief she was doing till she rose , though I pulled her clothes and used all the means in my power to show my uneasiness . This misfortune my mistress took to heart almost as much as myself 120 FOURTH EVENING .
... - ceived the mischief she was doing till she rose , though I pulled her clothes and used all the means in my power to show my uneasiness . This misfortune my mistress took to heart almost as much as myself 120 FOURTH EVENING .
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 73 - His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Pàgina 128 - WHO is this that comes from the south,• thinly clad in a light transparent garment ? her breath is hot and sultry ; she seeks the refreshment of the cool shade ; she seeks the clear streams, the crystal brooks, to bathe her languid limbs. The brooks and rivulets fly from her, and are dried up at her approach . She cools her parched lips with berries, and the grateful acid of fruits ; the seedy melon, the sharp apple, and the red pulp of the juicy cherry, which are poured out plentifully around...
Pàgina 10 - midst the desert fruitful fields arise, That crown'd with tufted trees and springing corn, Like verdant isles the sable waste adorn. Let India boast her plants, nor envy we The weeping amber or the balmy tree, While by our oaks the precious loads are born, And realms commanded which those trees adorn. Not proud Olympus yields a nobler sight, Tho...
Pàgina 26 - D some absolutely raw, , others variously prepared by the aid of fire. Another great article of food was the curd of milk, pressed into a hard mass and salted. This had so rank a smell, that persons of weak stomachs often could not bear to come near it. For drink, they made great use of the water in which certain dry leaves had been steeped.
Pàgina 156 - I should believe this: I thought all along you were making up a tale, as you often do; but you shall not catch me this time. What! they lay still, I suppose, and let these fellows cut their throats!
Pàgina 106 - Canute. Well, does the sea obey my commands ? If it be my subject, it is a very rebellious subject. See how it swells, and dashes the angry foam and salt spray over my sacred person.
Pàgina 127 - WHO is this beautiful virgin that approaches, clothed in a robe of light green ? She has a garland of flowers on her head, and flowers spring up wherever she sets her foot. The snow which covered the fields, and the ice which was in the rivers, melt away when she breathes upon them. 2. The young lambs frisk about...
Pàgina 20 - I should have run in directly and taken possession of my new house, but I thought I would tell you first, that we might go in together, and both lodge there tonight, for it will hold us both.
Pàgina 31 - we don't burn stones, or eat grease and powdered seeds, or wear skins and caterpillars' webs, or play with tigers." "No !" said the Captain; "pray what are coals but stones ; and is not butter, grease ; and corn, seeds ; and leather, skins ; and silk, the web of a kind of caterpillar ; and may we not as well call a cat an animal of the tiger kind, as a tiger an animal of the cat kind...
Pàgina 130 - He binds skates to his feet, and skims over the frozen lakes. His breath is piercing and cold, and no little flower dares to peep above the surface of the ground, when he is by. Whatever he touches turns to ice. If he were to stroke you with his cold hand, you would be quite stiff and dead, like a piece of marble.