 The world could not have furnished you with a present so acceptable to me, as the picture which you have so kindly sent me. I received it the night before last, and viewed it with a trepidation of nerves and spirits somewhat akin to what I should have...  The Mothers of Great Men - Página 369por Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1874 - 414 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Albert Franklin Blaisdell - 1888 - 366 páginas
...trepidation of nerves and spirits somewhat akin to what I should have felt had the dear original presented herself to my embraces. I kissed it, and hung it where...ocular witness of the great fidelity of the copy." 46. Cowper's father was rector at Great Berkhamstead, England. He died in 1756. 56. " I can truly say,"... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1888 - 360 páginas
...trepidation of nerves and spirits somewhat akin to what I should have felt had the dear original presented herself to my embraces. I kissed it, and hung it where...ocular witness of the great fidelity of the copy. I remember, too, a multitude of the maternal tendernesses which I received from her, and which have... | |
 | William Swinton - 1888 - 686 páginas
...trepidation of nerves and spirits somewhat akin to what I should have felt had the dear original presented herself to my embraces. I kissed it and hung it where...ocular witness of the great fidelity of the copy."] Oh that those lips had language ! Life has passed With me but roughly since I heard thee last. LITERARY... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1889 - 442 páginas
...my embraces. 1 kissed it and hnng it where it is the last object that I sec at night, and of conrse the first on which I open my eyes in the morning....my sixth year; yet I remember her well, and am an ocnlar witness of the great fidelity of the copy. I remember too, a mnltitnde of the maternal tendernesses... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1892 - 742 páginas
...trepidation of nerves and spirits somewhat akin to what I should have felt had the dear original presented herself to my embraces. I kissed it, and hung it where...ocular witness of the great fidelity of the copy. I remember, too, a multitude of the maternal tendernesses which I received from her, and which have... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1892 - 744 páginas
...trepidation of nerves and spirits somewhat akin to what I should have felt had the dear original presented herself to my embraces. I kissed it, and hung it where...the first on which I open my eyes in the morning." His lines, " On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture out of Norfolk," form one of the most touching elegies... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1893 - 294 páginas
...presented herself to my embraces. I kissed it, and hung it where it is a K O a (I •JJ 'iS B ZK ' ' H H * the last object that I see at night, and, of course,...the first on which I open my eyes in the morning." His lines "On the receipt of my Mother's Picture out of Norfolk " form one of the most beautiful and... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1893 - 290 páginas
...trepidation of nerves and spirits somewhat akin to what I should have felt had the dear original presented herself to my embraces. I kissed it, and hung it where it is m the last object that I see at night, and, of course, the first on which I open my eyes in the morning."... | |
 | Mark Pattison - 1895 - 570 páginas
...trepidation of nerves and spirits somewhat akin to what I should have felt had its dear original presented herself to my embraces. I kissed it and hung it where it is the last object which I see at night, and the first on which I open my eyes in the morning. She died when I completed... | |
 | William Cowper - 1896 - 348 páginas
...trepidation of nerves and spirits somewhat akin to what I should have felt, had the dear original presented herself to my embraces. I kissed it, and hung it where it is the last object that I see at night, and the 6rst on which I open my eyes in the morning. She died when I completed my sixth year ; yet I remember... | |
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