My Grandmother's Budget of Stories and Songs |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 24
Page 3
... bright , and that could twinkle like a child's at any fit of merriment , Ever since we could remember her , she used to be dressed in a dark maroon - coloured merino that fell in soft full folds round her still upright figure . No dingy ...
... bright , and that could twinkle like a child's at any fit of merriment , Ever since we could remember her , she used to be dressed in a dark maroon - coloured merino that fell in soft full folds round her still upright figure . No dingy ...
Page 27
... bright side of all things . So that to his mind , his low thatched hovel seemed a very palace , his coarse fare , a comfortable banquet , and his old wife , the comeliest and sweetest woman in all Stil- dorf . Morning , noon , and night ...
... bright side of all things . So that to his mind , his low thatched hovel seemed a very palace , his coarse fare , a comfortable banquet , and his old wife , the comeliest and sweetest woman in all Stil- dorf . Morning , noon , and night ...
Page 30
... Queen Is because she is so loving . For Alice is tall and stately , Her ringlets are dark and flowing , And Mary carries a merry sound Where'er she may be going . Isabel's fair and slender , And Helen is bright and 30 THE LITTLE QUEEN .
... Queen Is because she is so loving . For Alice is tall and stately , Her ringlets are dark and flowing , And Mary carries a merry sound Where'er she may be going . Isabel's fair and slender , And Helen is bright and 30 THE LITTLE QUEEN .
Page 31
Frances Freeling Broderip. Isabel's fair and slender , And Helen is bright and pretty , And everyone crowds round merry Maud , Because she is so witty . But our own dear little Amy , Amy with soft brown tresses , No one remembers how she ...
Frances Freeling Broderip. Isabel's fair and slender , And Helen is bright and pretty , And everyone crowds round merry Maud , Because she is so witty . But our own dear little Amy , Amy with soft brown tresses , No one remembers how she ...
Page 54
... bright member of society - to do great things and have my name well known in the world . And I am a mere straw ! only a straw ! " " And yet you have a great work before you , " said the Toad , " come , I am older than you are , and have ...
... bright member of society - to do great things and have my name well known in the world . And I am a mere straw ! only a straw ! " " And yet you have a great work before you , " said the Toad , " come , I am older than you are , and have ...
Common terms and phrases
ABSOLON African Wanderers answered Apples and currants Author beautiful bird blue bright bright eyes Bunny Card-table cloth Cockchafer coloured corner Cornerwise creature cried Daisy dark dear delicate delight Engravings eyes fair fairy Father Dik Fcap FINSBURY CIRCUS flowers Fritz Frontispiece GILBERT gilt edges gold golden green grew hair HARRISON WEIR Harry heart History hues HUGO REID Jack King Knave laughed little boat lived look Lucy Mamma merry mince-pies morocco mother Mouse never nice Otho and Ida pedlar Phiz pieman pigeon plain pleasant poor little Pope Joan pretty Price 6d Pussy Queen Queen Victoria rabbit rain replied rose round sail Second Edition sigh Small 4to Spinnikin Stildorf stood Stories straw sugar and spice Super Royal 16mo sweet tall things THOMAS HOOD Tiddy trees waves Wind window wings wonderful young
Popular passages
Page 19 - Glimpses of Nature, AND OBJECTS OF INTEREST DESCRIBED DURING A VISIT TO THE ISLE OF WIGHT. By Mrs. LOUDON.
Page 10 - Scenes of Animal Life and Character. From Nature and Recollection. In Twenty Plates. By JB 4to, price 2s., plain; 2s. 6d., coloured, fancy boards. " Truer, heartier, more playful, or more enjoyable sketches of animal life could scarcely be found anywhere.
Page 23 - The Modern British Plutarch; Or, Lives of Men distinguished in the recent History of our Country for their Talents, Virtues and Achievements. By WC TAYLOR, LL.D. Author of "A Manual of Ancient and Modern History,
Page 3 - Our Soldiers, or ANECDOTES OF THE CAMPAIGNS AND GALLANT DEEDS OF THE BRITISH ARMY DURING THE REIGN OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA. By WHG KINGSTON. With Frontispiece.
Page 29 - Engravings . 2s. 6d. plain; 2s. 6d. coloured, gilt edges. Key to Knowledge ; Or, Things in Common Use simply and shortly explained. By a MOTHER, Author of " Always Happy,
Page 7 - The Boy's Own Toy Maker: a Practical Illustrated Guide to the useful employment of Leisure Hours. By E. LANDELLS. With Two Hundred Cuts. Ninth Edition. Royal 16mo. " A new and valuable form of endless amusement."— tionconformitt.
Page 30 - WEIR. 4to, gilt edges. The Mine, or SUBTERRANEAN WONDERS. An Account of the Operations of the Miner and the Products of his Labours. Modern Sphinx (The). A Collection of ENIGMAS, CHARADES, REBUSES, DOUBLE AND TRIPLE ACROSTICS, ANAGRAMS, LOGOGRIPHS, METAGRAMS, VERBAL PUZZLES, CONUNDRUMS, etc. Fcap. 8vo.
Page 25 - True Stories from Ancient History, chronologically arranged from the Creation of the World to the Death of Charlemagne. Twelfth Edition.
Page 28 - Engravings. 2s. 6d. plain; 3s. 6d. coloured. Bible Illustrations; Or, a Description of Manners and Customs peculiar to the East, and especially Explanatory of the Holy Scriptures. By the Rev. BH DRAPER. With Engravings. Fourth Edition. Revised bv Dr. KITTO, Editor of " The Pictorial Bible,
Page 26 - Gaultier's Familiar Geography. With a concise Treatise on the Artificial Sphere, and two coloured Maps, illustrative of the principal Geographical Terms. Sixteenth Edition. 16mo, 3s. cloth. Butler's Outline Maps, and Key, or GEOGRAPHICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL EXERCISES; with a Set of Coloured Outline Maps, designed for the use of Young Persons. By the late WILLIAM BUTLER. Enlarged by the Author's Son, J.