 | 1862 - 580 pages
..."A prompt, decisive nvtn, no breath Cnr lather wasted : 'Boys, a path I1 Well pleased, (for when a farmer boy Count such a summons less than Joy » Our buskins on our feet we drew ; With mlttened hands, and caps drawn low. To guard our neck and ears from snow, We cut the solid whiteness... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 56 pages
...And even the long sweep, high aloof, In its slant splendor, seemed to tell Of Pisa's leaning miracle. A prompt, decisive man, no breath Our father wasted...summons less than joy?) Our buskins on our feet we drew ; With mittened hands, and caps drawn low, To guard our necks and ears from snow, We cut the solid... | |
 | American essays - 1866 - 976 pages
...even the long sweep, high aloof, In its slant splendor, seemed to tell Of Pisa's leaning miracle. " A prompt, decisive man, no breath , . Our father wasted : * Boys, a path ! ' Well pleased, (for wh%n did farmer boy Count such a summons less than joy ? ) Our buskins on our feet we drew ; With mittened... | |
 | Public schools - 1867 - 626 pages
...a woman in high life, that has no money. 7. Parse the italicized words in the following passage : " A prompt decisive man, no breath Our father wasted ; ' Boys, a path P . Well plctued, (for when did farmer boy, Count »uch a summons less than joy ?) Our buikint on our... | |
 | 1869 - 390 pages
...And even the long sweep, high aloof, In its slant splendor, seemed to tell Of Pisa's leaning miracle. "A prompt, decisive man, no breath Our father wasted : ' Boys, a path I' Well pleased (for when did farmer-hoy Count such a summons less than joy?) Our buskins on our feet... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...And even the long sweep, high aloof, In its slant splendor, seemed to tell Of Pisa's leaning miracle. Hum joy ?) Our buskins on our feet we drew ; With mittened hands, and caps drawn low, To guard our... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1871 - 410 pages
...even the long sweep, high aloof, In its slant splendor, seemed to tell Of Pisa's leaning miracle.* 4. A prompt, decisive man, no breath Our father wasted : " Boys, a path ! " Well pleased, (for when did farmer-boy Count such a summons less than joy ?) Our buskins 2 on our feet we drew ; With mittened... | |
 | American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...And even the long sweep, high aloof, In its slant splendor, seemed to tell Of Pisa's leaning miracle. iam Cullen ; With mittened hands, and caps drawn low, To guard our nscks and eare from snow, We cut the solid... | |
 | John Swett - Examinations - 1872 - 252 pages
...woman in high life that has no money. 7. Parse the italicized words in the following passage : — " A prompt decisive man, no breath Our father wasted...summons less than joy ?) Our buskins on our feet we draw." WHITTIER. 8. Analyze the first sentence in the above passage. 9. Paraphrase the following passage,... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - American literature - 1872 - 658 pages
...And even the long sweep, high aloof, In its slant splendor seemed to tell Of Pisa's leaning miracle. A prompt, decisive man, no breath Our father wasted : " Boys, a path ! " Well pleased, (for when did farmer-boy Count such a summons less than joy ?) Our buskins on our feet we drew. With mittencd hands,... | |
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With mittened hands, and caps drawn low, To guard our necks and ears from snow, We cut the solid whiteness through. And, where the drift was deepest, made A tunnel walled and overlaid... 
