RelicsD. Appleton, 1893 - 214 pages |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
aconites Agatha Sylvestre answered asked Aunt Prissy barrel organ believe birds Charlie Henzell child church Congleton cried curlews dead dear dream dress earth Ethel exclaimed eyes face family relics fancy farm feel Fellissima felt fish flagstaff flowers garden Goodey Gorhamcester hand hear heard heart heaven Hezekiah hope hurry knew Lady laughed little girls live looked Lord Cottonmills lych gate ma'am manor married Michaelmas day milldam Mills mind Miss Bedingars Miss Bolleyne Miss Fanny Miss Sylvestre morning Nellie never once passed poaches poor possessions pretty Prissy's rector Richard Bedingar Rose round side Singleton sister sitting Smeeby Smeeby's speak spirit sprigged muslin Stanstead stood strange suddenly Sunday sure talk tell things thought told took trees turn Uncle village walk wanted Warren Hastings whist White House wife wish women wonder young
Popular passages
Page 168 - But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
Page 91 - Western shore, (These but the means, the implements, the standing-ground,) I see in you, certain to come, the promise of thousands of years, till now deferr'd, Promis'd to be fulfill'd, our common kind, the race. The new society at last, proportionate to Nature, In man of you, more than your mountain peaks or stalwart trees imperial, 100 In woman more, far more, than all your gold or vines, or even vital air.
Page 91 - I see in you, certain to come, the promise of thousands of years, till now deferr'd, Promis'd to be fulfill'd, our common kind, the race. The new society at last, proportionate to Nature, In man of you, more than your mountain peaks or stalwart trees imperial, In woman more, far more, than all your gold or vines, or even vital air. Fresh come, to a new world indeed, yet long prepared, I see the genius of the modern, child of the real and ideal, Clearing the ground for broad humanity, the true America,...