Little Daffydowndilly, and Other StoriesMifflin, 1887 - 89 pages |
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... famous seaport , and ships sailed out of its harbor to the ends of the world . In the East Indies so many merchant vessels bore the word Salem on the stern that people there supposed that to be the name of some powerful country , and ...
... famous seaport , and ships sailed out of its harbor to the ends of the world . In the East Indies so many merchant vessels bore the word Salem on the stern that people there supposed that to be the name of some powerful country , and ...
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... famous men and women followed him as he was borne to the grave , and a few of them knew him . Yet very few could say they knew him well . The people who now read his books may know almost as much of him as those who met him daily , for ...
... famous men and women followed him as he was borne to the grave , and a few of them knew him . Yet very few could say they knew him well . The people who now read his books may know almost as much of him as those who met him daily , for ...
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... famous persons who have lived in other times by showing that they also had been children once . Although Mr. Temple was scrupulous to relate nothing but what was founded on fact , yet he felt himself at liberty to clothe the incidents ...
... famous persons who have lived in other times by showing that they also had been children once . Although Mr. Temple was scrupulous to relate nothing but what was founded on fact , yet he felt himself at liberty to clothe the incidents ...
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... famous Queen Anne had tried to cure him of this disease by laying her royal hands upon his head . But though the touch of the king or queen was supposed to be a certain remedy for scrofula , it pro- duced no good effect upon Sam Johnson ...
... famous Queen Anne had tried to cure him of this disease by laying her royal hands upon his head . But though the touch of the king or queen was supposed to be a certain remedy for scrofula , it pro- duced no good effect upon Sam Johnson ...
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... famous leader , who did more towards the ruin of royal authority than all the rest . The contest seemed like a wrestling - match between King Charles and this strong man . And the king was overthrown . When the discrowned monarch was ...
... famous leader , who did more towards the ruin of royal authority than all the rest . The contest seemed like a wrestling - match between King Charles and this strong man . And the king was overthrown . When the discrowned monarch was ...
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Page 54 - town treasurer ' is rightfully mine, as guardian of the best treasure that the town has. The overseers of the poor ought to make me their chairman, since I provide bountifully for the pauper, without expense to him that pays taxes. I am at the head of the fire department, and one of the physicians to the Board of Health.
Page 8 - If ever I should have a biographer, he ought to make great mention of this chamber in my memoirs, because so much of my lonely youth was wasted here...
Page 58 - In the hot months, when its refreshment was most needed, the dust flew in clouds over the forgotten birthplace of the waters, now their grave. But in the course of time a town pump was sunk into the source of the ancient spring ; and when the first decayed, another took its place, and then another, and still another, till here stand I, gentlemen and ladies, to serve you with my iron goblet.
Page 11 - HOW beautiful it was, that one bright day In the long week of rain ! Though all its splendor could not chase away The omnipresent pain. The lovely town was white with apple-blooms, And the great elms o'erhead Dark shadows wove on their aerial looms Shot through with golden thread.
Page 55 - Drink, and make room for that other fellow who seeks my aid to quench the fiery fever of last night's potations — which he drained from no cup of mine.
Page 56 - Go draw the cork, tip the decanter ; but, when your great toe shall set you a-roaring, it will be no affair of mine. If gentlemen love the pleasant titillation of the gout, it is all one to the Town Pump. This thirsty dog, with his red tongue lolling out, does not scorn my hospitality, but stands on his hind legs, and laps eagerly out of the trough. See how lightly he capers away again ! Jowler, did your worship ever have the gout ? Are you all satisfied?
Page 21 - Yonder it is, — there is the school-house!" said the stranger; for though he and little Daffydowndilly had taken a great many steps, they had travelled in a circle instead of a straight line. "Come; we will go back to school together.
Page 61 - In the moral warfare, which you are to wage — and, indeed, in the whole conduct of your lives — you cannot choose a better example than myself, who have never permitted the dust, and sultry atmosphere, the turbulence and manifold disquietudes of the world around me, to reach that deep, calm well of purity, which may be called my soul.
Page 41 - What imaginative little beings my children are ! " thought the mother, putting the last few stitches into Peony's frock. " And it is strange, too, that they make me almost as much a child as they themselves are ! I can hardly help believing, now, that the snowimage has really come to life...