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Glowing with health and exercise , Louisa now came laughing in , and after the
kisses , blessings , and usual ceremonies of " good - night ” had been
accomplished , she took the little ones up stairs to her own pretty room , a snug
little chamber ...
Glowing with health and exercise , Louisa now came laughing in , and after the
kisses , blessings , and usual ceremonies of " good - night ” had been
accomplished , she took the little ones up stairs to her own pretty room , a snug
little chamber ...
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He rose , with his usual unaffected good man . ners , to do the honours to the lady
, who , indeed , was no stranger at the vicarage , and whose good sense , kind
temper , and fine breeding , rendered her an object of respect and affection ...
He rose , with his usual unaffected good man . ners , to do the honours to the lady
, who , indeed , was no stranger at the vicarage , and whose good sense , kind
temper , and fine breeding , rendered her an object of respect and affection ...
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We will not say how long it took Charles to beat down all those evil spirits which
crowded upon his fancy ; but at length he returned quietly to his studies , with
pretty nearly his usual cheerfulness ; and he concluded the evening by a game at
...
We will not say how long it took Charles to beat down all those evil spirits which
crowded upon his fancy ; but at length he returned quietly to his studies , with
pretty nearly his usual cheerfulness ; and he concluded the evening by a game at
...
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ushered into a saloon , splendidly lighted , and filled with a brilliant crowd of
fashionably dressed men and women , engaged in the usual manner of such
assemblies before dinner . There was the regular party to be met with in all
fashionable ...
ushered into a saloon , splendidly lighted , and filled with a brilliant crowd of
fashionably dressed men and women , engaged in the usual manner of such
assemblies before dinner . There was the regular party to be met with in all
fashionable ...
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But remonstrance was , as usual , useless ; and had it not - what girl of seventeen
but would have found it difficult to resist the elegant and simple white gauze
which Carsan had sent for the occasion ? Her beautiful hair , arranged with
Rosalie ...
But remonstrance was , as usual , useless ; and had it not - what girl of seventeen
but would have found it difficult to resist the elegant and simple white gauze
which Carsan had sent for the occasion ? Her beautiful hair , arranged with
Rosalie ...
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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.