 Shook beam and rafter as it passed, The merrier up its roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed, The house-dog on his paws outspread Laid to the fire his drowsy head, The cat's dark silhouette on the wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall;...  The Foundations of Rhetoric - Side 190af Adams Sherman Hill - 1893 - 371 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1882 - 496 sider
...evenings they studied their arithmetic and grammar by the light of the pitch-knot blazing on the hearth. "And for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons...basket stood, With nuts from brown October's wood." A NEW ENGLAND EITCHEN. Marc.h, when the sun was swelling the buds of the maples, came the time for... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1882 - 504 sider
...they studied their arithmetic and grammar by the light of the pitch-knot blazing on the hearth. " Ami for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons...hand the basket stood, With nuts from brown October's \vood." A NKW KNGLAND KITCHEN. 84 iryo-1800.] SOCIAL LIKE IX NEW ENGLAND. In March, when tlie sun was... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1882 - 502 sider
...evenings thev studied their •' arithmetic and grammar by the light of the pitch-knot blazing on the " And for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons straddling feet, The nuig of cider simmered slow, The apples sputtered in a row. And close at hand the basket stood, With... | |
 | 1882 - 1434 sider
...crown, decking nature with mingled hues of green and gold and red. 6 ALIAS THBOCSMOBTOS— Sketches. Close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. c. WHnriEB— &iou;-6oun<<. NOVEMBER. When shrieked The bleak November winds, and smote the woods,... | |
 | William Swinton - 1883 - 504 sider
...the fire his drowsy head; The cat's dark silhouette on the wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons'...basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. 4. What matter how the night behaved? What matter how the north wind raved? Blow high, blow low, not... | |
 | William Swinton - 1883 - 492 sider
...the fire his drowsy head; The cat's dark .silhouette on the wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons'...basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. 4. What matter how the night behaved? What matter how the north wind raved? Blow high, blow low, not... | |
 | 1910 - 906 sider
...baffled rage at pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The frost lines back with tropic heat; And for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons'...basket stood, With nuts from brown October's wood. What matter how the night behaved? What matter how the north wind raved ? Blow high, blow low, not... | |
 | Charles Joseph Barnes, J. Marshall Hawkes - 1884 - 516 sider
...the fire his drowsy head, The cat's dark silhouette" on the wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons'...basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. What matter how the night behaved? What matter how the north wind raved ? Blow high, blow low, not... | |
 | Charles Joseph Barnes - 1884 - 524 sider
...the fire his drowsy head, The cat's dark silhouette" on the wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons'...basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. What matter how the night behaved? What matter how the north-wind raved? Blow high, blow low, not all... | |
 | Loomis Joseph Campbell - 1884 - 442 sider
...and rafter as it passed, The merrier up its roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons'...basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. 4. What matter how the night behaved ? What matter how the nortb wind raved ? Blow high, blow low,... | |
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