The Youthful Travellers; Or, Letters Chiefly Descriptive of Scenes Visited by Some Young People During a Summer Excursion,: Designed as Examples of the Epistolary Style for Children..William Darton, 1823 - 178 pages |
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... garden on one side . The farmer , his wife , and their two daugh- ters , came out to meet us , and gave us a very cordial welcome ; they led us into the best parlour , a room without a car- pet , with a casement window , and with an old ...
... garden on one side . The farmer , his wife , and their two daugh- ters , came out to meet us , and gave us a very cordial welcome ; they led us into the best parlour , a room without a car- pet , with a casement window , and with an old ...
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... , who was asleep in the cradle , while she went a walk in the garden , and gave him a fan to flap away the flies that came to the baby . I forgot to say that West was a native of 2 America , and that this happened in that country 32.
... , who was asleep in the cradle , while she went a walk in the garden , and gave him a fan to flap away the flies that came to the baby . I forgot to say that West was a native of 2 America , and that this happened in that country 32.
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... garden almost every day since you went , and have pre- sented mamma with two dishes of peas from my own little garden , one of pota- toes , and one of French beans , as well as with a basket of nice ripe strawberries , and some roses ...
... garden almost every day since you went , and have pre- sented mamma with two dishes of peas from my own little garden , one of pota- toes , and one of French beans , as well as with a basket of nice ripe strawberries , and some roses ...
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... garden gate , mamma came out and talked to me about the use of seeds . She told me that the seeds of some plants are provided with the means of wafting themselves to a distance , and that being then buried in the earth till the next ...
... garden gate , mamma came out and talked to me about the use of seeds . She told me that the seeds of some plants are provided with the means of wafting themselves to a distance , and that being then buried in the earth till the next ...
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... gardens and green - houses at Hackney , which are on a very ex- tensive scale , and contain beautiful plants from almost every part of the world . Louisa and I took care not to let him forget his promise , and yesterday we went to ...
... gardens and green - houses at Hackney , which are on a very ex- tensive scale , and contain beautiful plants from almost every part of the world . Louisa and I took care not to let him forget his promise , and yesterday we went to ...
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Page 60 - I less deplored thee, ne'er forgot. Where once we dwelt our name is heard no more, Children not thine have trod my nursery floor ; And where the gardener, Robin, day by day, Drew me to school along the public way, Delighted with my bauble coach, and wrapped In scarlet mantle warm, and velvet capped, 'Tis now become a history little known, That once we called the pastoral house our own.
Page 93 - Thus having spoke, the illustrious chief of Troy Stretch'd his fond arms to clasp the lovely boy. The babe clung crying to his nurse's breast, Scared at the dazzling helm, and nodding crest. With secret pleasure each fond parent smiled, And Hector hasted to relieve his child, The glittering terrors from his brows unbound, And placed the beaming helmet on the ground; Then kiss'd the child, and, lifting high in air, Thus to the gods preferr'da father's prayer: "O thou!
Page 59 - I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But was it such ? It was.
Page 96 - The river nobly foams and flows, The charm of this enchanted ground, And all its thousand turns disclose Some fresher beauty varying round ; The haughtiest breast its wish might bound Through life to dwell delighted here ; Nor could on earth a spot be found To nature and to me so dear, Could thy dear eyes in following mine Still sweeten more these banks of Rhine ! LVI. By Coblentz, on a rise of gentle ground, There is a small and simple pyramid, Crowning the summit of the verdant mound ; Beneath...
Page 145 - A million torches lighted by Thy hand Wander unwearied through the blue abyss. They own Thy power, accomplish Thy command, All gay with life, all eloquent with bliss. What shall we call them ? Piles of crystal light — A glorious company of golden streams — Lamps of celestial ether burning bright — Suns lighting systems with their joyous beams ; But Thou to these art as the noon to night.
Page 92 - Too daring prince! ah, whither dost thou run? Ah, too forgetful of thy wife and son! And think'st thou not how wretched we shall be, A widow I, a helpless orphan he? For sure such courage length of life denies, And thou must fall, thy virtue's sacrifice. Greece in her single heroes strove in vain; Now hosts oppose thee, and thou must be slain.
Page 153 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 29 - TV ambrosial gold that swells his thighs. " Perhaps his fragrant load may bind His limbs ; — we'll set the captive free — I sought the LIVING BEE to find, And found the PICTURE of a BEE.
Page 155 - Vaga echoes through her winding bounds, And rapid Severn hoarse applause resounds. Who hung with woods yon mountain's sultry brow ? From the dry rock who bade the waters flow ? Not to the skies in useless columns tost...
Page 36 - It did not occur to any of the family to provide him with better materials, till a party of Indians being amused with little Benjamin's sketches of birds and flowers,taught him to prepare the red and yellow colours with which they painted their ornaments...