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„p>Finally my HiawathaTumbled all the tribe together,(‘Grouped’ is not the right expression),And, as happy chance would have itDid at last obtain a pictureWhere the faces all succeeded:Each came out a perfect likeness.Then they joined and all abused it,Unrestrainedly abused it,As the worst and ugliest pictureThey could possibly have dreamed of.’Giving one such strange expressions -Sullen, stupid, pert expressions.Really any one would take us(Any one that did not know us)For the most unpleasant people!“
„Not as in rest she bowed,But large hot tears were coursing down her cheek.And her low-panted sobs broke awefullyUpon the sleeping echoes of the night.“
„p>In her eyes is the living HghtOf a wanderer to earthFrom a far celestial height:Summers five are all the span —Summers five since Time beganTo veil in mists of human nightA shining angel-birth.Does an angel look from her eyes?Will she suddenly spring away,And soar to her home in the skies?Beatrice! Blessing and blessed to be!
„Put the date in full. It is another aggravating thing, when you wish, years afterwards, to arrange a series of letters, to find them dated “Feb. 17”, “Aug. 2”, without any year to guide you as to which comes first. And never, never, dear Madam (N. B. this remark is addressed to ladies only: no man would ever do such a thing), put “Wednesday”, simply, as the date!“
„There is an insect that people avoid(Whence is derived the verb ‘to flee’).Where have you been by it most annoyed?In lodgings by the Sea.“
„Then proudly smiled that old manTo see the eager ladRush madly for his pen and inkAnd for his blotting-pad –But, when he thought of publishing,His face grew stern and sad.“
„The White Knight must not have whiskers; he must not be made to look old.“
„”Our Second Experiment”, the Professor announced, as Bruno returned to his place, still thoughtfully rubbing his elbows, “is the production of that seldom-seen-but-greatly-to-be-admired phenomenon, Black Light! You have seen White Light, Red Light, Green Light, and so on: but never, till this wonderful day, have any eyes but mine seen Black Light! This box”, carefully lifting it upon the table, and covering it with a heap of blankets, “is quite full of it. The way I made it was this – I took a lighted candle into a dark cupboard and shut the door. Of course the cupboard was then full of Yellow Light. Then I took a bottle of Black ink, and poured it over the candle: and, to my delight, every atom of the Yellow Light turned Black! That was indeed the proudest moment of my life! Then I filled a box with it. And now – would anyone like to get under the blankets and see it?”Dead silence followed this appeal: but at last Bruno said “I’ll get under, if it won’t jingle my elbows.”Satisfied on this point, Bruno crawled under the blankets, and, after a minute or two, crawled out again, very hot and dusty, and with his hair in the wildest confusion.”What did you see in the box?” Sylvie eagerly enquired.”I saw nuffin!” Bruno sadly replied. “It were too dark!””He has described the appearance of the thing exactly!”“
„p>Those locks of jet are turned to gray,And she is strange and far awayThat might have been mine own to-day —That might have been mine own, my dear,Through many and many a happy year —That might have sat beside me here.
„There was once a young man of Oporta,Who daily got shorter and shorter,The reason he saidWas the hod on his headWhich was filled with the heaviest mortar.“
„A sadder vision yet: thine aged sireShaming his hoary locks with treacherous wile!And dost thou now doubt Truth to be a liar?And wilt thou die, that hast forgot to smile?“
„I wasn’t asleep! said Bruno, in a deeply-injured tone. “When I shuts mine eyes, it’s to show that I’m awake!”“
„”What may I do?” at length I cried,Tired of the painful task.The fairy quietly replied,And said “You must not ask.”“
„Last night we owned, with looks forlorn,”Too well the scholar knowsThere is no rose without a thorn” —But peace is made! We sing, this morn,”No thorn without a rose!”Our Latin lesson is complete:We’ve learned that Love is Bitter-Sweet!“
„I suppose every child has a world of his own — and every man, too, for the matter of that. I wonder if that’s the cause for all the misunderstanding there is in Life?“
„Oh, when I was a little Ghost,A merry time had we!Each seated on his favourite post,We chumped and chawed the buttered toastThey gave us for our tea.“
„All too soon will Childhood gayRealise Life’s sober sadness.Let’s be merry while we may,Innocent and happy Fay!Elves were made for gladness!“
„The light was faint, and soft the airThat breathed around the place;And she was lithe, and tall, and fair,And with a wayward graceHer queenly head she bare.“
„An island-farm — broad seas of cornStirred by the wandering breath of morn —The happy spot where I was born.“
„If doubtful whether to end with “yours faithfully”, or “yours truly”, or “your most truly”, &c. (there are at least a dozen varieties, before you reach “yours affectionately”), refer to your correspondent’s last letter, and make your winding-up at least as friendly as his: in fact, even if a shade more friendly, it will do no harm!“
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