City Festivals, Volume 1 |
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AGED LADY balloonist BEARDED LADY BEN-HUR blessings brave called clasped Cloth Columbus comrades crowd dead dear death Decoration Day DEZA drums march earth earthly EDWARD DOWDEN Elder Lamb's donation eyes face Festival fight flowers Fourth of July FRANKLIN SQUARE freaks Freedom's friends Gilt Edges GIRL guide gleam glory grand graves guests unseen hand hath hear heart Heaven husband Jonathan Jarvis Kalamazoo knew land laugh LITTLE GIRL living look McFluffey's canoe ne'er neath never nigh night o'er once pain Peter Long pity poem poor pray PROPRIETOR queer race Reub sail sailor Sarah SCIENTIST shipmate shouted Sky Club smiles song soul spectre whale star story strong sweet TALAVERA tell There's things THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH Thou thought Thursday Sabbath Day to-day toil true truth Twas voice waited wife woman wonder words young
Popular passages
Page 165 - Shakspere: a Critical Study of his Mind and Art. By EDWARD DOWDEN.
Page 62 - ... with a thrill of exultation, Wishing that in filthy lucre might have come his whole donation. Morning came at last, in splendor; but the Elder, wrapped in gloom, Knelt amid decaying produce and the ruins of his home; And his piety had never till that morning been so bright: For he prayed for those who brought him to that unexpected plight. But some worldly thoughts intruded; for he wondered o'er and o'er If they'd buy that day at auction, what they gave the night before; And his fervent prayer...
Page 165 - TENNYSON'S SONGS, WITH MUSIC. Songs from the Published Writings of Alfred Tennyson. Set to Music by various Composers.
Page 60 - GOOD old Elder Lamb had labored for a thousand nights and days, And had preached the blessed Bible in a multitude of ways; Had received a message daily over Faith's celestial wire, And had kept his little chapel full of flames of heavenly fire; He had raised a numerous family, straight and sturdy as he could, And his boys were all considered as unnaturally good; And his "slender sal'ry" kept him till went forth the proclamation — "We will pay him up this season with a gen'rous, large donation.
Page 61 - And some stove-wood, green and crooked, on his flower-beds was laid, Fit to furnish fire departments with the most substantial aid. All things unappreciated found this night their true vocation In the Museum of Relics, known as Elder Lamb's Donation. There were biscuits whose material was their own secure...
Page 61 - There were sauces whose acuteness bore the sad pluperfect tense; There were jellies undissected, there were mystery-laden pies ; There was bread that long had waited for the signal to arise ; There were cookies tasting clearly of the drear and musty past ; There were doughnuts that in justice 'mongst the metals might be classed ; There were chickens, geese, and turkeys that had long been on probation, Now received in full connection at old Elder Lamb's donation. Then they gave his wife a wrapper...