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Mr . Digby ' s mother has set her heart upon assembling all her family around her
, to keep her eightieth birthday , which falls precisely upon the very twentieth that I
should have been with you . She knew nothing of my plans , and I did not like ...
Mr . Digby ' s mother has set her heart upon assembling all her family around her
, to keep her eightieth birthday , which falls precisely upon the very twentieth that I
should have been with you . She knew nothing of my plans , and I did not like ...
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The good and gentle eldest sister had watched with a mother ' s pleasure the
unfolding of all those innumerable charms that adorned the younger . Her heart
was unstained by the slightest approach to that base and villanous envy , with
which ...
The good and gentle eldest sister had watched with a mother ' s pleasure the
unfolding of all those innumerable charms that adorned the younger . Her heart
was unstained by the slightest approach to that base and villanous envy , with
which ...
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But when , arrayed in all the light and airy grace which : Carsan so well knows
how to give to her tasteful . draperieś , Louisa reappeared , the Mother of Love
herself never formied a more charming spectacle . Her soft , gay smiles ! Thë .
ease ...
But when , arrayed in all the light and airy grace which : Carsan so well knows
how to give to her tasteful . draperieś , Louisa reappeared , the Mother of Love
herself never formied a more charming spectacle . Her soft , gay smiles ! Thë .
ease ...
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And there was the usual scheming mother , and her vicious trio of portionless
handsome daughters ; those perennial victims to the moral of our most moral
stories — those unhappy examples of young ladies , without fortune and without
...
And there was the usual scheming mother , and her vicious trio of portionless
handsome daughters ; those perennial victims to the moral of our most moral
stories — those unhappy examples of young ladies , without fortune and without
...
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... not alone by his personal accomplishments , but by his rank and fortune : for
though a second son , he belonged to one of the most noble and ancient families
in England ; and his fortune , derived from his mother , was immense . Moreover ...
... not alone by his personal accomplishments , but by his rank and fortune : for
though a second son , he belonged to one of the most noble and ancient families
in England ; and his fortune , derived from his mother , was immense . Moreover ...
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Tales of the Woods and Fields: A Second Series of "The Two Old Men ..., Volume 1 Anne Marsh-Caldwell Visualização integral - 1836 |
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Página 179 - ... in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake: And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice. And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And behold, there came a voice unto him, and said. What doest thou here, Elijah?
Página 14 - Yes ! let the rich deride, the proud disdain These simple blessings of the lowly train ; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art...
Página 14 - These simple blessings of the lowly train; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art Spontaneous joys, where nature has its play. The soul adopts, and owns their first-born sway; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfined.
Página 158 - Everything that he proposed commencing was to be completed for his boy ; everything that he erected was to last for several generations. In this sense, his apprenticeship was ended : with the feeling of a father, he had acquired all the virtues of a citizen. He felt this, and nothing could exceed his joy. " O needless strictness of morality...
Página 14 - Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, And shouting Folly hails them from her shore...
Página 5 - I know, The sum of all that makes a just man happy Consists in the well choosing of his wife : And there, well to discharge it, does require Equality of years, of birth, of fortune ; For beauty being poor, and not cried up By birth or wealth, can truly mix with ueithcr. And wealth, where there's such difference in years, And fair descent, must make the yoke uneasy : — But I come nearer.