 | Simon Kerl - English language - 1861 - 372 pages
...in his own feelings, though others may not appreciate it so fully. Ex.— " How glad from the cool mossy brim to receive it, As poised on the curb it inclined to my lips!" Here the author slyly intimates that there are persons who underrate the excellence of water, as a... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Bible stories - 1861 - 550 pages
...tlie iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket arose from the well. 21. How sweet from the grec n mossy brim to receive it, As poised on the curb it inclined to my lips 1 Not a full blushing goblet could tempt me to leave it, Though filled with the nectar that Jupiter... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers (Secondary) - 1861 - 562 pages
...intrusively swell, As fancy reverts to my father's plantation, And sighs for the bucket which hangs in the well ; The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, which hangs in the well. XXX. — A FRIGATE AMONG THE SHOALS. COOPEE. [JAHBS FENTMORB COOPER was born... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...sweetest that nature can yield. How ardent I seized it, with hands that were glowing ! And quick to the white-pebbled bottom it fell ; Then soon, with the...; The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-cover'd bucket arose from the well. How sweet from the green mossy brim to receive it, As, poised... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Bible stories - 1862 - 558 pages
...seized it, with hands that were glowing, And quick to the white-pebbled bottom It foil; Then »oon, with the emblem of truth overflowing. And dripping...; The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moaa-covered bucket arose from the well. 81. How sweet from the green in— -y brim to receive it,... | |
 | Simon Kerl - English language - 1862 - 430 pages
...interest or excitement in his own feelings, though others may not appreciate it so fully. Ex. — " How sweet from the green mossy brim to receive it, As poised on the curb it inclined to my lips ! " Here the author slyly intimates that there are persons who underrate the excellence of water, as... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1862 - 796 pages
...sweetest that nature can yicld. How ardent I seized it, with hands that were glowing ! An-i qnick to the white-pebbled bottom it fell; Then soon, with the emblem of truth overflowing. And dripping with cooluess, it rose from the well; The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-cover'd bucket... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Bible stories - 1863 - 552 pages
...yield. How ardent I seized it, with hands that were glowing. 1-ig. 18, the excursion party at the well. Then soon, with the emblem of truth overflowing, And...bucket, The moss-covered bucket arose from the well. 21. How sweet from the green mosey brim to receive it, As poised on the curb it inclined to my lip:*... | |
 | German literature - 1863 - 260 pages
...cataract fell ; The cot of my father, the dairy house nigh it, And e'en the rude bucket which hung in the well ! The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well. That moss-covered vessel I hail as a treasure ; For often, at noon, when returned... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers - 1863 - 390 pages
...cataract ' fell ; The cot of my father, the dairy-house 2 nigh it, And e'en the rude bucket which hung in the well : The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the welL 2. That moss-covered vessel I hail as a treasure ; For often, at noon, when... | |
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That moss-covered vessel I hail as a treasure For often at noon, when returned from the field, I found it the source of an exquisite pleasure, The purest and sweetest that nature can yield. How ardent I seized it, with hands that were glowing ! And quick... 
