Summer-savory: Gleaned from Rural Nooks in Pleasant WeatherS. C. Griggs, 1880 - 210 pages |
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Summer-Savory: Gleaned From Rural Nooks in Pleasant Weather (Classic Reprint) Benj F. Taylor Aucun aperçu disponible - 2015 |
Summer-Savory: Gleaned from Rural Nooks in Pleasant Weather (Classic Reprint) Benj F. Taylor Aucun aperçu disponible - 2017 |
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Page 57 - ... What ardor ! What intellectual effort ! What grooves ! Meanwhile, grammars mended, amended and emended, multiply. There are four things anybody can do : teach a school, drive a horse, edit a newspaper, and make a grammar. Meanwhile the same old high crimes and misdemeanors against the statutes are daily committed. This comes of grooves and the lack of a professorship of common sense. Take geography. The young lady fresh from school, who from a steamer's deck was shown ;m island, and who asked...
Page 129 - AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar; Ah! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale remote has pined alone, Then dropt into the grave, unpitied and unknown...
Page 50 - No other voice nor sound was there, No drum nor sentry's pace ; The mist-like banners clasped the air As clouds with clouds embrace. But when the old cathedral bell Proclaimed the morning prayer, The white pavilions rose and fell On the alarmed air.
Page 165 - And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, With the jawbone of an ass have I smitten a thousand men.
Page 58 - ... and, possibly, of himself, he said, " It seems easy enough, but I don't know what to do with the fat ! " That fellow was not a fool, but a groove-runner. A little condition was thrown in that he never saw in the book, and that groove of his had never been lubricated with fat pork.
Page 57 - Charles' is a noun, masculine gender, sing'lar number, third person, 'cause it's spoken of, objective case, and governed by 'strikes.' Active verbs govern the objective case — please, sir, S'inantha and Joe is a-makin' faces! "' And all in the same breath ! What ardor ! What intellectual effort ! What grooves ! Meanwhile, grammars mended, amended and emended, multiply. There are four things anybody can do : teach a school, drive a horse, edit a newspaper, and make a grammar. Meanwhile the same...
Page 95 - ... to govern the physical one, and which is embodied in the wish that " good digestion may wait on appetite and health on both.
Page 48 - Whether it is a baby or a bowlder to be christened, the names they bestow could be interchanged without exciting a suspicion that either had been wronged. " Garden of the Gods " is about as appropriate as Orchard of Hesperus or the Valley of Rasselas. It suggests nothing, and it means all it suggests. Here is a park of five hundred acres of land, mountain-locked on the north and west, moated with canons on the south, and walled with red sandstone on the east, spread with grassy carpets here and there,...
Page 56 - ... verified or condemned only by his own, — this man can never be a man of grooves. THE TEACHER. The most useless of stupidities is the teacher who is. a groove-runner; who has swallowed text-books without digesting them, and feeds his pupils with the morsels as old pigeons feed squabs, until, like himself, they are all victims of mental dyspepsia, which is a curious synonym for education. Children subjected to such diet are as likely to get fat and strong as so many grist-mill hoppers,, that...
Page 157 - It is a city set on a hill, that cannot be hid. It is to be lifted up, and is to draw all men unto it. It is nothing if not this ; and if, after a careful search, we fail to find it, there will be nothing left us but to conclude that it is nothing, or that, at any rate, this life does not contain it. If we are still resolved to find it, we must...