 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.  First (-Fourth) reading book - Page 143by Philip George and son, ltd - 1872Full view - About this book
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1857 - 428 pages
...a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands ; The smith- a mighty man is he, 137 With largo and sinewy hands ; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron hands. His hair is crisp, and hlack, and long, His face is like the tan; His brow is wet with honest... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1858 - 516 pages
...the language. These occur, 1. At the end of each line; as, Under a spreading chastnut tree — • The village smithy stands — The smith, a mighty...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... | |
 | Robert Steel (D.D.) - 1858 - 484 pages
...his business? he shall stand before kings; ho shall not stand before mean men." — PEOV. xxii. 29. "The smith a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands ; And the muscles of his brawny arms Aro strong as iron bands." THIS is an iron age. Within the last thirty years a new feature has been... | |
 | Children - 1859 - 198 pages
...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,... | |
 | Robert Steel - 1859 - 466 pages
...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... | |
 | 1859 - 418 pages
...public to pluck, am), consequently, must always be poor. But let us hear Longfellow's 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 black and long, His face is like the tan... | |
 | Harvey Marriott - 1859 - 284 pages
...earth, And took the flowers away. LONGFELLOW. THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH. UNDER 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 Are strong as iron bands. His hair is crisp,... | |
 | HENRY HOWE - 1859 - 748 pages
...sleep, to all that lives 1 THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH. HENBY W. LONGFELLOW. Under a spreading chesnut tree The village smithy stands ; The smith, a mighty man is he, With iarge and sinewy hands j And the muscles of his brawny armsAre strong as iron bands. His face is like... | |
 | Cosmo Innes - 1860 - 88 pages
...even from Longfellow's fine portrait of the village blacksmith — " Under a spreading chestnut tree, The village smithy stands ; The smith, a mighty man...muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. " Toiling — rejoicing — sorrowing, Onward through life he goes ; Each morning sees some task begun,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1860 - 514 pages
...his hands full of blessings, Now on the holy breast, and now on the innocent tresses. MISCELLANEOUS, THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH. UNDER a spreading chestnut-tree...smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands ; His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat,... | |
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