 The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He...  American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 4191840Full view - About this book
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1858 - 516 pages
...chastnut tree — • The village smithy stands — The smith, a mighty man is he — With large and sinewy hands ; — And the muscles of his brawny arms — Are strong as iron bands. 2. About the middle of each line, when it is called the cesura, and marked thus ( || ) ; as, They laid... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 724 pages
...a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands ; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands ; And the muscles of his brawny arms...whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. Week in, week out, from morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow : You can hear him swing his heavy... | |
 | Harvey Marriott - 1859 - 284 pages
...a spreading chesnut tree, The village smithy stands ; The smith, a mighty man is he, With huge and sinewy hands : And the muscles of his brawny arms...world in the face ; For he owes not any man. Week in, week out, from morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow ; You can hear him swing his heavy... | |
 | William J. Bennett - 1997 - 392 pages
...a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are...can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owns not any man. Week in, week out, from morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow; You can hear... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and 6 6516 In this world, a man must either be anvil or hammer. 6517 'The Wreck of the Hesperus' But the... | |
 | Alan Lupack, Barbara Tepa Lupack - 1999 - 408 pages
...the embodiment of certain basic values, a strong man whose "brow is wet with honest sweat" and who "looks the whole world in the face, / For he owes not any man." Longfellow's blacksmith teaches the typical American "lesson" that "at the flaming forge of life /... | |
 | Robert X. Leeds - 1999 - 366 pages
...Under a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands; The smith a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are...whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. Week in, week out, from morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow, You can hear him swing his heavy... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 662 pages
...a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are...whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. Week in, week out, from morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow; You can hear him swing his heavy... | |
 | James J. Lynch - 2000 - 408 pages
...the spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are...whole world in the face, For he owes not any man." Proud, honorable, and in marvelously good physical shape — that was true of many of the workers we... | |
 | James M. Jasper - 2009 - 328 pages
...already becoming a nostalgic image from the past when Longfellow wrote "The Village Blacksmith" in 1839: His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er...whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. Even as they scrambled to take advantage of it, Americans frequently bemoaned the new economic order.... | |
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