 Sat astride on his nose, with a look of wisdom supernal. Father of twenty children was he, and more than a hundred Children's children rode on his knee, and heard his great watch tick.  Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie - Page 37by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1854 - 163 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1849 - 782 pages
...their Norman orchards and bright Burgundian vineyard*." A venerable old man is thus described — " But like a laboring oar, that toils in the surf of the ocean, Bent, but not broken, by age" — Here are two very pretty, though somewhat quaint fancies— " Silently, one by one, in the infinite... | |
 | 1848 - 722 pages
...work which should abound in passages like the following — baby-talk forced into a canter : — " Bent like a laboring oar, that toils in the surf of...his forehead was high ; and glasses with horn bows S¡it astride on his nose with a look of wisdom supernal. Father of twenty children was he, and more... | |
 | American periodicals - 1848 - 602 pages
...the bridegroom's father came to the farmer's, followed by. the notary, who is thus described :-— " Bent like a laboring oar, that toils in the surf of the ocean, Bent, bat not broken, by age was the form of the notary public; Shocks of yellow hair, like the silken floss... | |
 | Literature - 1849 - 820 pages
...their Norman orchards and bright Burgundian vineyards." A venerable old man is thus described — " Bent like a laboring oar, that toils in the surf of the ocean, Bent, but not broken, by age" — Here are two very pretty, though somewhat quaint fancies — " Silently, one hy one, in the infinite... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - American essays - 1850 - 560 pages
...church, where his Majesty's mandate will be proclaimed as the law of the land. That evening the notary, " Bent like a laboring oar, that toils in the surf of the ocean," entered the cottage of Benedict Bellefontaine, where Basil was smoking. The brazen lamp was lighted,... | |
 | American literature - 1918 - 798 pages
...finer: " Beat lite a labouring oar, Hal toil* in the surf of At ocean. BaU. but not broken, by aft, was the form of the notary public ; •Shocks of yellow hair, like the silken Host of the maize, hnng Over hi) shoulders ; his forehead was high ; and glasses with horn bows Sat... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1853 - 516 pages
...September Wrestled the trees of the forest, as Jacob of old with the Angel.|| Bent, like a labouring oar, that toils in the surf of the ocean, Bent, but...silken floss of the maize, hung Over his shoulders, &сД Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossom'd the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots... | |
 | 1853 - 538 pages
...September Wrestled the trees of the forest, as Jacob of old with the Angel. || Bent, like a labouring oar, that toils in the surf of the ocean, Bent, but...silken floss of the maize, hung Over his shoulders, &сД Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossom'd the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - American literature - 1854 - 580 pages
...had spokcn, And äs they died on his lips the worthy notary entered. III. BKXT like a labouring dar, that toils in the surf of the ocean, Bent, but not...shoulders; his forehead was high; and glasses with hörn bows Sät astride on his nose, with a look of wisdoin supernal. Father of twenty children was... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Acadians - 1856 - 116 pages
...the words that her father had spoken, And as they died on his lips the worthy notary entered. III. BENT like a laboring oar, that toils in the surf of...was the form of the notary public ; Shocks of yellow hairs, like the silken floss of the maize, hung Over his shoulders ; his forehead was high ; and glasses... | |
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