 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1857 - 394 pàgines
...for'tanes 18, i'ro« 11, c/toir 33, an'vzV 1. THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH. 1. UNDER a spreading chestnut-tree the village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man...muscles of his brawny arms are strong as iron bands. 2. His hair is erisp and black and long; his face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat;... | |
 | Fairleigh - 1857 - 184 pàgines
...PART THE FIRST. JFatrlctjjf). CHAPTER I. ARRIVALS AT THE GOLUEX LION. Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands. The smith — a mighty...large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arm Are as strong as iron bands. His hair is crisp, and black, an i long, His face is like the tan;... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1857 - 456 pàgines
...resided. His reputation as a writer is well known. He may be ranked among the first poets of the age. 1. UNDER a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy...smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands v ; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. 2. His hair is crisp, and black, and... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1857 - 428 pàgines
...a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands ; The smith- a mighty man is he, 137 With largo and sinewy hands ; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron hands. His hair is crisp, and hlack, and long, His face is like the tan; His brow is wet with honest... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1858 - 516 pàgines
...expression to the language. These occur, 1. At the end of each line; as, Under a spreading chastnut tree — • The village smithy stands — The smith,...muscles of his brawny arms — Are strong as iron bands. 2. About the middle of each line, when it is called the cesura, and marked thus ( || ) ; as, They laid... | |
 | Robert Steel (D.D.) - 1858 - 484 pàgines
...his business? he shall stand before kings; ho shall not stand before mean men." — PEOV. xxii. 29. "The smith a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands ; And the muscles of his brawny arms Aro strong as iron bands." THIS is an iron age. Within the last thirty years a new feature has been... | |
 | Children - 1859 - 198 pàgines
...sting, for the Saviour hath 16 ' BISHOP HEBEE. THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH. UNDER a spreading chesnut-tree The village smithy stands ; The smith, a mighty man...muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. L His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat,... | |
 | Robert Steel - 1859 - 466 pàgines
...in his business? he shall stand before kings; hQ shall not stand before mean men."— PEOV. Mil. 29. "The smith a mighty man Is he, With large and sinewy...muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands." THIS is an iron age. Within the last thirty years a new feature has been added to our country by its... | |
 | 1859 - 418 pàgines
...public to pluck, am), consequently, must always be poor. But let us hear Longfellow's description. " The smith a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands ; And the muscles of his sinewy arms Are strong as iron bands. His hair is crisp and black and long, His face is like the tan... | |
 | Harvey Marriott - 1859 - 284 pàgines
...green earth, And took the flowers away. LONGFELLOW. THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH. UNDER a spreading chesnut tree, The village smithy stands ; The smith, a mighty man is he, With huge and sinewy hands : And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. His hair is crisp,... | |
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His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. 
