 BENT like a laboring oar, that toils in the surf of the ocean, Bent, but not broken, by age was the form of the notary public ; Shocks of yellow hair, like the silken floss of the maize, hung Over his shoulders ; his forehead was high ; and glasses with...  Evangeline - Seite 30von Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1894 - 157 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1848 - 1390 Seiten
...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 the...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... | |
 | 1848 - 514 Seiten
...father came to the farmer's, followed by the notary, who is thus described : — " Bent like a labouring oar, that toils in the surf of the ocean, Bent, but...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... | |
 | 1848 - 476 Seiten
...father came to the farmer's, followed by the notary, who is thus described : — " Bent like a labouring oar, that toils in the surf of the ocean, Bent, but...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... | |
 | 1848 - 722 Seiten
...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 the...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... | |
 | 1848 - 602 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1849 - 820 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 476 Seiten
...that her father had spoken, And as they died on his lips the worthy notary entered. i 175 III. BENT like a laboring oar, that toils in the surf of the...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... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1850 - 560 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 Seiten
...father had spoken ; And as they died on his lips the worthy notary entered. III. BENT like a labouring oar, that toils in the surf of the ocean, Bent, but...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... | |
 | 1918 - 798 Seiten
...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... | |
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