Pneumanee; or, The fairy of the nineteenth century, Volume 2 |
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... I believe , my dear , " said Pneumanee . " Oh no , " she said , unconscious of her meaning , " there is nothing so melancholy as a great house with two enormous wings , and and a small family not half big enough to fill 5.
... I believe , my dear , " said Pneumanee . " Oh no , " she said , unconscious of her meaning , " there is nothing so melancholy as a great house with two enormous wings , and and a small family not half big enough to fill 5.
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... half of it to pull down , because it was too big for com- fort . It was better to have a house too small for a day than too large for a year . " The Miss Volatiles came in almost breathless , with " Dear Fanny , what do you think ? I am ...
... half of it to pull down , because it was too big for com- fort . It was better to have a house too small for a day than too large for a year . " The Miss Volatiles came in almost breathless , with " Dear Fanny , what do you think ? I am ...
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... which I may want , but sel- dom do . I go up sometimes with a resolution to give half my stores to my maid ; but such a conflict arises between the fear of wanting what I part part with , and the probability of want- ing nothing 17.
... which I may want , but sel- dom do . I go up sometimes with a resolution to give half my stores to my maid ; but such a conflict arises between the fear of wanting what I part part with , and the probability of want- ing nothing 17.
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... I'll make you pay for your incredulity ; I'll pop you over the cliff , make you hang like a chough in midway air , not half so big as a black- bird . " - " You must run for it , my dear dear Sir , " she said , " and tripped 41.
... I'll make you pay for your incredulity ; I'll pop you over the cliff , make you hang like a chough in midway air , not half so big as a black- bird . " - " You must run for it , my dear dear Sir , " she said , " and tripped 41.
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... half an hour for their return - they had the most delightful news to commu- nicate that Lord R. would take pos- session of his house in a few days - one of their brothers was coming down at the same time ; and as they took it for ...
... half an hour for their return - they had the most delightful news to commu- nicate that Lord R. would take pos- session of his house in a few days - one of their brothers was coming down at the same time ; and as they took it for ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
admiration amusement artless asked babilities beach beauty believe blessings blushed boards body carriage Charles charming comfort dear creature dear Fanny dear girls dear Lucy dear Pneumanee dearest delightful Devil to pay dinner dread dress elegant epergne Fanny's father fear feel felt foolscap 8vo friends gaily give habits half-crown hand happy HATCHARD hear heard heart Hermit hoped impatient kind knew laugh leave letter London look Lord R.'s Lordship mamma manee married mind Miss Volatile Mitre morning necklace never old nurse opinion pain papa Parsonage party peated pelisses pleasant pleasure Pneu Pneuma poor recollection Rector Rector's wife remark replied returned Rock-house round Rupert Street scene shew smiled soon splendour sure talk taste Teignmouth tell thing thought took tranquillity village vols walk warm wife wish young ladies
Passagens conhecidas
Página 181 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Página 182 - With this her solemn bird and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train: But neither breath of morn when she ascends With charm of earliest birds, nor rising sun On this delightful land, nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew, nor fragrance after showers, Nor grateful evening mild, nor silent night With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight without thee is sweet.
Página 182 - But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds; nor rising sun On this delightful land; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers; Nor grateful evening mild; nor silent night With this her solemn bird; nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.
Página 12 - His all-searching eye will assuredly never pursue us into those little corners of our lives, much less will His justice select them for punishment without the general context of our existence, by which faults may be sometimes found to have grown out of virtues and very many of our heaviest offences to have been grafted by human imperfection upon the best and kindest of our affections.
Página 11 - God have mercy upon us ! — instead of standing before him in judgment with the hopes and consolations of Christians, we must call upon the mountains to cover us ; for which of us can present, for Omniscient examination, a pure, unspotted, and faultless course ? But I humbly expect that the benevolent Author of our being will judge us as I have been pointing out for your example. Holding up the great volume of our lives in his hands, and regarding the general scope of them ; — if he discovers...
Página 4 - He was wont to say that wisdom lay in the heart, and not in the head ; and that it was not the want of knowledge, but the perverseness of the will, that filled men's actions with folly and their lives with .disorder.
Página 12 - Holding up the great volume of our lives in his hands, and regarding the general scope of them; if He discovers benevolence, charity, and good-will to man beating in the heart, where He alone can look; if He finds that our conduct, though often forced out of the path by our infirmities, has been in general well directed; his allsearching...