Evenings at Home, Or, The Juvenile Budget Opened: Consisting of a Variety of Miscellaneous Pieces for the Instruction and Amusement of Young Persons, Volume 5J. Johnson, 1805 - Children |
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Page 93 - COME, said Mr. Barlow to his boys, I have a new play for you. I will be the founder of a colony ; and you shall be people of different trades and professions coming to offer yourselves to go with me. What are you, A ? A.
Page 78 - GENEROUS REVENGE. AT the period when the republic of Genoa was divided between the factions of the nobles and the people, Uberto, a man of low origin, but of an elevated mind and superior talents, and enriched by commerce, having raised himself to be the head of a popular party, maintained for a considerable time a democratical form of government.
Page 95 - There will be houses to build, fences to make, and all kinds of wooden furniture to provide. But our timber is all growing. You will have a deal of hard work to do in felling trees, and sawing planks, and shaping posts, and the like.
Page 95 - We cannot do without either of you ; so you may bring your great bellows and anvil, and we will set up a forge for you as soon as we arrive. But, by the by, we shall want a mason for that purpose.
Page 85 - And to whom, (said old Adorno) am I indebted for the inestimable benefit of restoring you to my arms ?" " This letter (said his son) will inform you.
Page 96 - E. I will try what I can do, sir. Mr. B. No man can do more. I engage you. Who is next ? F. I am a shoemaker, sir. Mr. B.
Page 64 - Of all the gods who tread the spangled skies, Thou, most unjust, most odious in our eyes ! Inhuman discord is thy dire delight, The waste of slaughter, and the rage of fight. No bound, no law, thy fiery temper quells, 1100 And all thy mother in thy soul rebels. In vain our threats, in vain our power we use, She gives th' example, and her son pursues.
Page 82 - ... which his delicate frame had not been accustomed, and while he leaned at intervals upon the instrument with which he was working, a sigh burst from his full heart, and a tear stole down his cheek. Uberto eyed him with tender compassion, and addressed him in Italian. The youth eagerly caught the sounds of his native tongue, and, replying to his inquiries, informed him he was a Genoese. " And what is your name, young man ? (said Uberto). You need not be afraid of confessing to me your birth and...
Page 91 - The family might have starved, but for his eldest son, whom, from a child, the father brought up to help him in his work ; and who was so industrious and attentive, that, being now at the age of thirteen or fourteen, he was able to earn pretty good wages, every cent of which, that he could keep out of his father's hands, he brought to his mother.
Page 85 - That son of a vile mechanic, who told you that one day you might repent the scorn with which you treated him, has the satisfaction of seeing his prediction accomplished. For know, proud noble ! that the deliverer of your only son from slavery is The banished Uberto.