St. Nicholas, Volume 32Mary Mapes Dodge Scribner & Company, 1905 - Children's literature |
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Page 669 - A TOUCH, a kiss ! the charm was snapt. There rose a noise of striking clocks, And feet that ran, and doors that clapt, And barking dogs, and crowing cocks •, A fuller light illumined all, A breeze through all the garden swept, A sudden hubbub shook the hall, And sixty feet the fountain leapt.
Page 1130 - ... they make candles, which are never greasy to the touch nor melt with lying in the hottest weather; neither does the snuff of these ever offend the smell, like that of a tallow candle; but, instead of being disagreeable, if an accident puts a candle out, it yields a pleasant fragrancy to all that are in the room; insomuch that nice people often put them out on purpose to have the incense of the expiring snuff. The melting of these berries is said to have been first found out by a surgeon in New...
Page 957 - Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals, we may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
Page 1063 - We edit for the approval of fathers and mothers, and endeavor to make the child's monthly a milkand-water variety of the- adult's periodical. But, in fact, the child's magazine needs to be stronger, truer, bolder, more uncompromising than the other.
Page 686 - No one ever appropriated the ideas of others to his own purpose with more skill than Sir Joshua. He possessed the alchemy of painting, by converting whatever he touched into gold.
Page 684 - ... almost entirely out of these masses, and be used only to support and set off these warm colours; and for this purpose, a small proportion of cold colours will be sufficient. Let this conduct be reversed; let the light be cold, and the surrounding...
Page 802 - Yar-up ! Yar-up ! Yar-up ! " from the tree-top, or occasionally he breaks the woody silence with a prolonged jovial " Ha ! Ha ! Ha ! " There's always a sentiment of the farm about the flicker. Occasionally I see one of the birds here in the midst of the city, but he always reminds me of a backwoods boy on a visit. He never seems at home among the clanging of the cars and the rumbling of the wagons along the paved streets. A few...
Page 1148 - I take but one? Shakespeare — as long as I was unoppressed With the world's weight, making sad thoughts intenser: But did I wish, out of the common sun To lay a wounded heart in leafy rest, And dream of things far off and healing — Spenser.
Page 1064 - They just want to have their own way over their own magazine. They want to enter the one place where they may come and go as they please, where they are not obliged to mind, or say 'yes, ma'am...
Page 1064 - and " yes sir," — where, in short, they can live a brand-new, free life of their own for a .little while, accepting acquaintances as they choose and turning their backs without ceremony upon what does not concern them. Of course they expect to pick up odd bits and treasures, and to now and then " drop in " familiarly at an air castle, or step over to fairy -land.