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... daughter , too , is a great hunter of the picturesque , and transfers every rock and glen to her portfolio . By the way , my dear , show Mr. Mountjoy that pretty scene you have lately sketched . " Julia complied , blushing , and drew ...
... daughter , too , is a great hunter of the picturesque , and transfers every rock and glen to her portfolio . By the way , my dear , show Mr. Mountjoy that pretty scene you have lately sketched . " Julia complied , blushing , and drew ...
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... daughter . She appeared perfectly alive to the beauties of the poet , and disposed to meet me in the discus- sion ; but it was not my object to hear her talk ; it was to talk myself . I anticipated all she had to say , overpowered her ...
... daughter . She appeared perfectly alive to the beauties of the poet , and disposed to meet me in the discus- sion ; but it was not my object to hear her talk ; it was to talk myself . I anticipated all she had to say , overpowered her ...
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... daughter offered the least interruption . When the ladies had retired , Mr. Somerville sat some time with me ; and as I was no longer anxious to astonish , I permitted myself to listen , and found that he was really agreeable . He was ...
... daughter offered the least interruption . When the ladies had retired , Mr. Somerville sat some time with me ; and as I was no longer anxious to astonish , I permitted myself to listen , and found that he was really agreeable . He was ...
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... daughter's education . " This Mr. Somerville , " thought I , " is a very accomplished , elegant inan ; he has seen a good deal of the world , and , upon the whole , has profited by what he has seen . He is not without in- formation ...
... daughter's education . " This Mr. Somerville , " thought I , " is a very accomplished , elegant inan ; he has seen a good deal of the world , and , upon the whole , has profited by what he has seen . He is not without in- formation ...
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... daughter and himself . He observed that , as regarded himself , he was afraid he was too old to benefit by the instructions of Mr. Glencoe , and that as to his daughter , he was afraid her mind was but little fitted for the study of ...
... daughter and himself . He observed that , as regarded himself , he was afraid he was too old to benefit by the instructions of Mr. Glencoe , and that as to his daughter , he was afraid her mind was but little fitted for the study of ...
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Página 57 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Página 102 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Página 114 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known ; riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none ; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil ; No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too, — but innocent and pure ; No sovereignty, — Seb.
Página 334 - And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a dullness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice, Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
Página 342 - Knowledge before — a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.
Página 36 - Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year...
Página 34 - But in this genial interval, natu/e is in all her freshness and fragrance " the rains are over and gone, the flowers appear upon the earth, the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in the land.
Página 342 - Break, Phantsie, from thy cave of cloud, And wave thy purple wings, Now all thy figures are allowed, And various shapes of things. Create of airy forms a stream ; It must have blood and...
Página 107 - For the kind spring which but salutes us here, Inhabits there and courts them all the year ; Ripe fruits and blossoms on the same trees live, At once they promise what at once they give ; So sweet the air, so moderate the clime, None sickly lives or dies before his time ; Heaven sure has kept this spot of earth uncurst To show how all things were created first.
Página 41 - town lots'," "water privileges," "railroads," and other comprehensive and soul-stirring words from the speculator's vocabulary, are never heard. The residents dwell in the houses built by their forefathers, without thinking of enlarging or modernizing them, or pulling them down and turning them into granite stores. The trees under which they have been born, and have played in infancy, flourish undisturbed ; though, by cutting them down, they might open new streets, and put money in their pockets....