Pneumanee: Or, The Fairy of the Nineteenth CenturyE. Earle, 1815 - 259 páginas |
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... expected trunk . As the evening came on before the presents arrived , to pass away the tedious moments , Pneumanee proposed to tell them of a visit she had paid to a new - married couple , who were so violently attached to each other ...
... expected trunk . As the evening came on before the presents arrived , to pass away the tedious moments , Pneumanee proposed to tell them of a visit she had paid to a new - married couple , who were so violently attached to each other ...
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... heavy with its coat of nails , that she always expected it to crush her . " Monday . Pneumanee absent for a few days . When the children were gone to bed , and Fanny and · Charles were left some time longer , the Rector 59 r ...
... heavy with its coat of nails , that she always expected it to crush her . " Monday . Pneumanee absent for a few days . When the children were gone to bed , and Fanny and · Charles were left some time longer , the Rector 59 r ...
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... expected - so much to do , how was it all to be effected ? The Rector went on : - " You inherit a character from your ancestors that it is your duty to support ; they have for centuries been men of honour ; but like all hereditary ...
... expected - so much to do , how was it all to be effected ? The Rector went on : - " You inherit a character from your ancestors that it is your duty to support ; they have for centuries been men of honour ; but like all hereditary ...
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... expected her to say something more , and she innocently added , " I suppose I am not old enough . " — " Not old enough ! " ex- claimed Wilmot , " why , in London young ladies and their mammas talk of little else . Ladies come out to ...
... expected her to say something more , and she innocently added , " I suppose I am not old enough . " — " Not old enough ! " ex- claimed Wilmot , " why , in London young ladies and their mammas talk of little else . Ladies come out to ...
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... expected to see him . How different , my dear Fanny , " said Pneu . manee , " from the behaviour of a happy woman who had married the husband of her parents ' choice as well as her own ! With what confidence would such an one plead for ...
... expected to see him . How different , my dear Fanny , " said Pneu . manee , " from the behaviour of a happy woman who had married the husband of her parents ' choice as well as her own ! With what confidence would such an one plead for ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
admiration amusement appearance asked beach beauty believe better blessings blushed body breakfast Charles cheerful comfort daugh daughters dear boy dear creature dear Fanny dear girls dear Lucy dear Pneumanee delightful Devil to pay dinner dread dress elegant enjoy epergne Eton Fanny's fashion father fear feel felt friends gentleman give habits happy hear heard heart her's hope husband kind knew laugh leave live single London look Lord R.'s Lordship lovely mamma manee married mind Miss Volatile Mitre morning Mortimer mother never object opinion pain papa Parsonage party pleasant pleasure Pneu Pneumanee's poor racter recollection Rector Rector's wife remarks replied scene smiled soon sorrow sure syllabubs talk taste tell thing thought took Tower of Babel village walk wife wish woman young ladies your's
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Página 230 - 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 231 - 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 star-light, without thee is sweet.
Página 145 - ... 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 benevolence, charity, and...
Página 231 - 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 But wherefore all night long shine these?
Página 118 - ... sense, or he whose sentiments are raised above the common taste by the anticipation of those delights which will satiate the soul, when the whole capacity of her nature is branched out into new faculties ? He who looks for nothing beyond this short span of duration, or he whose aims are co-extended with the endless length of eternity? He who derives his spirit from the elements, or he who thinks it was inspired by the Almighty? NUMB. LXXVII. The GUARDIAN. " Certum voto pete finem."— HOR. Ep....
Página 11 - Gordon ; and every day, from the rising up of the sun to the going down of the same, pray for his health and vigour.
Página 145 - 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 51 - Of the death of this great hero, it was said, " that " he died with his sword in his hand, the word of command " in his mouth, and with victory in his imagination.
Página 51 - that you might reniemberjwhenyour favourite Gustavus Adolphus began and ended his reign ; but the anecdotes you mentioned to-day, that he never engaged in any battle without first praying at the head of his troops; that he used afterwards to thunder out in a strong and energetic manner a German hymn, in which he was joined by his whole army ; and that the effect of forty or fifty thousand voices was both wonderful and terrible : all this, and so much more as you...
Página 51 - ... without first praying at the head of his troops ; after which he used to thunder out, in a strong and energetic manner, a German hymn, in which he was joined by his whole army : the effect of thirty or forty thousand people thus singing together was wonderful and terrible. He used to say, that a man made a better soldier in proportion to his being, a better Christian, and there was no person so happy as those who died in the performance of their duty.