The Modern ChildT.N. Foulis, 1908 - 246 pages |
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MODERN CHILD Hervey Comp Elwes,T. N. Foulis (Firm),L. Allen (Lizzie Allen) 1863-19 Harker No preview available - 2016 |
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A. C. SWINBURNE ALICE MEYNELL ALLEN HARKER angels babes baby beautiful blessed blue cheek chil childhood childish Christmas comes COULSON KERNAHAN Dear little delight doll Doreen dreams E. V. LUCAS EDWARD H EVELYN SHARP eyes face fair fairy fancy father fear feet flowers four years old garden give golden good-night hair happy hear heaven J. M. BARRIE JAMES SULLY KATHARINE TYNAN HINKSON KENNETH GRAHAME kissed Lady laughing little Blue-Ribbons little child little girls little hand little heart little maiden look LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Maimie mind morning mother never night NORMAN GALE nurse nursery parents play Poems pretty R. C. LEHMANN RATCLIFFE BARNETT Ricky's Sheringham to paddle shining sleep smile Songs soul sweet Sweetheart tears tender things thou thought to-day toys Twentieth Century Child Viola voice Wind wings wonder young
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Page 21 - HE that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men ; which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public.
Page 21 - Certainly, wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity ; and single men, though they be many times more charitable, because their means are less exhaust, yet, on the other side, they are more cruel and hard-hearted (good to make severe inquisitors) because their tenderness is not so oft called upon.
Page 123 - A MAN that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time. But that happeneth rarely. Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages. And yet the invention of young men is more lively than that of old ; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and as it were more divinely.
Page 159 - SLEEP breathes at last from out thee, My little, patient boy ; And balmy rest about thee Smooths off the day's annoy. I sit me down, and think Of all thy winning ways ; Yet almost wish, with sudden shrink, That I had less to praise.
Page 73 - I would rather [said he] have the rod to be the general terror to all, to make them learn, than tell a child, if you do thus, or thus, you will be more esteemed than your brothers or sisters. The rod produces an effect which terminates in itself. A child is afraid of being whipped, and gets his task, and there's an end on't; whereas, by exciting emulation and comparisons of superiority, you lay the foundation of lasting mischief; you make brothers and sisters hate each other.
Page 53 - He is Nature's fresh picture newly drawn in oil, which time and much handling dims and defaces. His soul is yet a white paper unscribbled with observations of the world, wherewith, at length, it becomes a blurred notebook. He is purely happy because he knows no evil, nor hath made means by sin to be acquainted with misery. He arrives not at the mischief of being wise, nor endures evils to come by foreseeing them.
Page 39 - But would you take the trouble of rearing it ? " He seemed, as may well be supposed, unwilling to pursue the subject: but upon my persevering in my question, replied, "Why yes, Sir, I would; but I must have all conveniences.
Page xxix - TAKE heed of this small child of earth ; He is great : he hath in him God most high. Children before their fleshly birth Are lights alive in the blue sky. In our light bitter world of wrong They come ; God gives us them awhile. His speech is in their stammering tongue, And his forgiveness in their smile. Their sweet light rests upon our eyes. Alas ! their right to joy is plain.
Page 127 - These elders, our betters by a trick of chance, commanded no respect, but only a certain blend of envy — of their good luck — and pity — for their inability to make use of it. Indeed, it was one of the most hopeless features in their character (when we troubled ourselves to waste a thought on them : which wasn't often) that, having absolute licence to indulge in the pleasures of life, they could get no good of it. They might dabble in the pond all day, hunt the chickens, climb trees in the...
Page 50 - Blue eyes, gray eyes, black eyes, and brown, As shuts the rose, they softly close, when he goes through the town. So when you hear the sandman's song Sound through the twilight sweet, Be sure you do not keep him long...