 | 1857 - 27 страница
...his pen degraded as he sang of the Mechanic's toils. Longfellow leaving this exquisite production : THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH. "Under a spreading chestnut...muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. 13 His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan, His brow is wet with honest sweat,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1857 - 384 страница
...for'tanes 18, i'ro« 11, c/toir 33, an'vzV 1. THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH. 1. UNDER a spreading chestnut-tree the village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man...muscles of his brawny arms are strong as iron bands. 2. His hair is erisp and black and long; his face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat;... | |
 | Fairleigh - 1857
...PART THE FIRST. JFatrlctjjf). CHAPTER I. ARRIVALS AT THE GOLUEX LION. Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands. The smith — a mighty...large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arm Are as strong as iron bands. His hair is crisp, and black, an i long, His face is like the tan;... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1857 - 448 страница
...resided. His reputation as a writer is well known. He may be ranked among the first poets of the age. 1. UNDER a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy...smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands v ; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. 2. His hair is crisp, and black, and... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1858 - 504 страница
...expression to the language. These occur, 1. At the end of each line; as, Under a spreading chastnut tree — • The village smithy stands — The smith,...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... | |
 | Children - 1859
...sting, for the Saviour hath 16 ' BISHOP HEBEE. THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH. UNDER a spreading chesnut-tree The village smithy stands ; The smith, a mighty man...muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. L His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat,... | |
 | 1859
...description. " The smith a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands ; And the muscles of his sinewy arms Are strong as iron bands. His hair is crisp and...like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat, lie earns whate'er he can, * And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man." The village... | |
 | Robert Steel - 1859 - 380 страница
...in his business? he shall stand before kings; hQ shall not stand before mean men."— PEOV. Mil. 29. "The smith a mighty man Is he, With large and sinewy...muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands." THIS is an iron age. Within the last thirty years a new feature has been added to our country by its... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1860 - 310 страница
...biography of both the living and the dead ! A few of the verses are : — " Under a spreading chestnutrtree The village smithy stands ; The smith, a mighty man...tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns what e'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. •wards. Every youth... | |
 | Cosmo Innes - 1860 - 69 страница
...of him from the modern attendant of the forge and anvil, nor even from Longfellow's fine portrait of the village blacksmith — " Under a spreading chestnut...muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. " Toiling — rejoicing — sorrowing, Onward through life he goes ; Each morning sees some task begun,... | |
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His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. 
