Autumn Hours and Fireside ReadingCharles Scribner, 1854 - 311 sider |
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Side 25
... desire to return to them . To say nothing of the wholesomeness of fresh air and hardy exercise the last a theme hardly to be mentioned to ears polite , in a country where it is not fashionable to be strong - this way of parcelling out ...
... desire to return to them . To say nothing of the wholesomeness of fresh air and hardy exercise the last a theme hardly to be mentioned to ears polite , in a country where it is not fashionable to be strong - this way of parcelling out ...
Side 46
... desire to gather sea - weed , or Alga as the lady more euphoniously termed the wondrous films of rose and purple , and gold and brown , that she waded after , and gathered , and spread carefully and cunningly on cards . With her great ...
... desire to gather sea - weed , or Alga as the lady more euphoniously termed the wondrous films of rose and purple , and gold and brown , that she waded after , and gathered , and spread carefully and cunningly on cards . With her great ...
Side 58
... desire to make our hard - earned knowledge of parts of the way useful to the toiling ? Especially when we find flowers and fruit , is it generous not to tell ? One good result of shaping and fixing our thoughts in words , is the greater ...
... desire to make our hard - earned knowledge of parts of the way useful to the toiling ? Especially when we find flowers and fruit , is it generous not to tell ? One good result of shaping and fixing our thoughts in words , is the greater ...
Side 62
... desire repose . Mr. Ingoldsby felt it his duty to pay some attention to the preparations for dinner , so that he lingered a good deal about the huts , where that mundane affair was transacted . George Marston , being at an age when the ...
... desire repose . Mr. Ingoldsby felt it his duty to pay some attention to the preparations for dinner , so that he lingered a good deal about the huts , where that mundane affair was transacted . George Marston , being at an age when the ...
Side 139
... Desire as king doth reign . " Once more in undisputed possession of his wife's society , Henry Ellis set about a return to the habits of life that had been productive of so much happiness before Mrs. St. John's arrival . Masters were ...
... Desire as king doth reign . " Once more in undisputed possession of his wife's society , Henry Ellis set about a return to the habits of life that had been productive of so much happiness before Mrs. St. John's arrival . Masters were ...
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Autumn Hours, and Fireside Reading (Classic Reprint) Mrs. C. M. Kirkland Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 2016 |
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Side 142 - No sport of every random gust, Yet being to myself a guide, Too blindly have reposed my trust ; And oft, when in my heart was heard...
Side 142 - There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them ; who, in love and truth, Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth : Glad hearts ! without reproach or blot ; Who do thy work and know it not ; Oh ! if through confidence misplaced They fail, thy saving arms, dread Power ! around them cast.
Side 206 - The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness...
Side 77 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Side 265 - Subtle as Sphinx ; as sweet, and musical, As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair ; And, when love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.
Side 222 - ... encumbered with claims — and took up her own abode on the new plantation. Living in an humble dwelling — and relinquishing many of her habitual comforts — -she devoted herself with such zeal, untiring industry, and indomitable resolution to the attainment of her object, that her success triumphed over every difficulty, and exceeded the expectations of all who had discouraged her. She not only paid her husband's debts to the full, but secured for her children and descendants a handsome and...
Side 220 - how came you here ?' "'Oh, I thought, 'replied I, 'you would need nurses as well as soldiers.
Side 117 - Impostor, do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous With her abundance...
Side 63 - But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! A savage place ! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover...
Side 143 - Why, assure you, signior, rich apparel has strange virtues : it makes him that hath it without means, esteemed for an excellent wit : he that enjoys it with means, puts the world in remembrance of his means : it helps the deformities of nature, and gives lustre to her beauties ; makes continual holiday where it shines...