The Story Without an End, Part 14Effingham Wilson, 1833 - 92 pages |
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beauty beetles began birds bloom blue heavens Bound in Cloth breathed bright bright eyes brightly butterfly catch cave cheeks chest of drawers Child sat Child thought Child's heart clear eyes cloud colours that lay currant dark debt deep blue delight dew-drops dragonfly flew drawers ENGLISH GRAMMAR exclaimed fain felt fifty florins fireflies flowers flown fluttered fragrant gazed glided glittering glow-worm gnat green greeting harebells head heard heaven hyacinth insect joyous kindly knew lark leaves length light and freedom lily little bed little cottage Little Frederick little hut lizard look moon moss mother mountain night nightingale once peeped playfellows poor orphan poor widow pure ROYAL EXCHANGE sang shone sleep soared soft softly song soon spider spring stars stood sunbeam sweet odours tage and garden tears thither thou told trees tulips warbled weary weep whole will-o'-the-wisp wings wondrously wood youth
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Page 28 - ... nought but innocence, and he was the bridegroom and she was the bride. And the nightingale was never weary of repeating the same thing a hundred times over, for the spring of love which gushed from his heart was ever new; and the lily bowed her head bashfully, that no one might see her glowing heart.
Page 63 - ... and her thanks up to the sun, because he had turned his beaming countenance again upon her in love and bounty. And the lark hung poised above the hope-giving field, and warbled her clear and joyous song. She sang of the loveliness of the rosy dawn, and the fresh brilliancy of the earliest sunbeams; of the gladsome springing of the young flowers, and the vigorous shooting of the corn; and her song pleased the Child beyond measure. But the lark wheeled in higher and higher circles, and her song...
Page 12 - A long while ago," said the drop of water, " I lived with my countless sisters in the great ocean, in peace and unity. We had all sorts of pastimes ; sometimes we mounted up high into the air, and peeped at the stars ; then we sank plump down deep below, and looked how the coral-builders work till they are tired, that they may reach the light of day at last.
Page 48 - The Child laid himself down to sleep, for he was very tired; but he could not sleep, for his couch of moss was quite another thing than his little bed, and the cave was all strange to him. He turned himself on one side and then on the other, and as nothing would do, he raised himself aud sat upright to wait till sleep might choose to come.
Page 68 - ... from their narrow buds, and the gurgling notes from the narrow breast of the lark. The germs burst open the folding doors of the seeds, and broke through the heavy pressure of the earth in order to get at the light: the grasses tore asunder their bands, and their slender blades sprung upwards.
Page 16 - pride goeth before a fall,' resigned myself to my fate, and, as I had already laid aside all my unhappy pride in the cloud, my portion was now the salt of humility; and after undergoing many purifications from the hidden virtues of metals and minerals, I was at length permitted to come up once more into the free cheerful air; and now will I run back to my sisters, and there wait patiently till I am called to something I better.
Page 5 - Child cared nothing at all about the looking-glass; but as soon as the first sunbeam glided softly through the casement and kissed his sweet eyelids, and the finch and the linnet waked him merrily with their morning songs, he arose, and went out into the green meadow. And he begged flour of the primrose, and sugar of the violet, and...