St. Nicholas, Volume 49, Part 2Mary Mapes Dodge Scribner & Company, 1922 - Children's literature |
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... face was white , but there were no tears in her eyes and no faltering in her speech . She controlled her emotions for his sake . Down through the branches of the great elm that for more than a century had cast its shade over the lawn ...
... face was white , but there were no tears in her eyes and no faltering in her speech . She controlled her emotions for his sake . Down through the branches of the great elm that for more than a century had cast its shade over the lawn ...
Page 679
... face . It was not forced . It was as spontaneous as the loving smile of a mother looking down into the face of the child in her arms . Only the smile of Him who was meek and lowly could have been sweeter and more inspiring . But there ...
... face . It was not forced . It was as spontaneous as the loving smile of a mother looking down into the face of the child in her arms . Only the smile of Him who was meek and lowly could have been sweeter and more inspiring . But there ...
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... face , which in death seemed , if possible , nobler than in life . More clearly than ever before might be seen the dignity and nobility of soul which God had given him . Four days afterward , Mr. Lincoln's body was borne down ...
... face , which in death seemed , if possible , nobler than in life . More clearly than ever before might be seen the dignity and nobility of soul which God had given him . Four days afterward , Mr. Lincoln's body was borne down ...
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... face set like flint ; her fine eyes glittered behind their glasses , and she started hunting for her rumpled story with an ominous , steely calm . She knew quite well where the secretary had gone ; she had often seen harassed members of ...
... face set like flint ; her fine eyes glittered behind their glasses , and she started hunting for her rumpled story with an ominous , steely calm . She knew quite well where the secretary had gone ; she had often seen harassed members of ...
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... face of the earth . My goodness , girls , you'll have to stand by me ! " she ended solemnly . " Leonida will have prepared her for the worst by now , I suppose , " remarked Cary . " Trust our tactful Leonida ! " Paula snapped , and they ...
... face of the earth . My goodness , girls , you'll have to stand by me ! " she ended solemnly . " Leonida will have prepared her for the worst by now , I suppose , " remarked Cary . " Trust our tactful Leonida ! " Paula snapped , and they ...
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Page 694 - Mary had a little lamb, Its fleece was white as snow, And everywhere that Mary went, The lamb was sure to go.
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Page 861 - Here the Khan Kubla commanded a palace to be built, and a stately garden thereunto. And thus ten miles of fertile ground were inclosed with a wall.
Page 731 - Where the great Sun begins his state Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Page 1087 - Enlarged winds, that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Page 862 - Stones near to it ; and as our united funds were very small, we agreed to defray the expense of the tour by writing a poem, to be sent to the New Monthly Magazine, set up by Phillips, the bookseller, and edited by Dr.
Page 731 - DUKE'S PALACE. [Enter DUKE, CURIO, LORDS; MUSICIANS attending.] DUKE. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.— That strain again;— it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.— Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
Page 895 - Now rings the woodland loud and long, The distance takes a lovelier hue, And drowned in yonder living blue The lark becomes a sightless song. Now dance the lights on lawn and lea, The flocks are whiter down the vale, And milkier every milky sail On winding stream or distant sea ; Where now the seamew pipes, or dives In yonder greening gleam, and fly The happy birds, that change...
Page 947 - Drake he's in his hammock till the great Armadas come, (Capten, art tha sleepin' there below?), Slung atween the round shot, listenin' for the drum, An' dreamin' arl the time o' Plymouth Hoe. Call him on the deep sea, call him up the Sound, Call him when ye sail to meet the foe; Where the old trade's plyin' an' the old flag flyin', They shall find him ware an' wakin', as they found him long ago!