Ellen Clifford: Or the Genius of ReformA. Tompkins and B. B. Mussey, 1839 - 142 páginas |
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... opened the door and greeted him with one of her most affectionate smiles . Take hold of my hand , pretty dear - there , there , that's a sweet little violet - ha ! ha ! ha ! yes , yes , a sweet little violet - papy's so tired ! ' ' Poor ...
... opened the door and greeted him with one of her most affectionate smiles . Take hold of my hand , pretty dear - there , there , that's a sweet little violet - ha ! ha ! ha ! yes , yes , a sweet little violet - papy's so tired ! ' ' Poor ...
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... opened his own library and bade her welcome ; and , in former days , this little paradise , as she called it , formed the home of her leisure hours ; but now her mother's illness prevented this indul- gence , and the privation was ...
... opened his own library and bade her welcome ; and , in former days , this little paradise , as she called it , formed the home of her leisure hours ; but now her mother's illness prevented this indul- gence , and the privation was ...
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... little better , ) when Ellen emerged from the wood into the glen path that led to it . She opened the door very carefully into the narrow entry way , and almost before she crossed the threshold 4 * THE GENIUS OF REFORM . 41.
... little better , ) when Ellen emerged from the wood into the glen path that led to it . She opened the door very carefully into the narrow entry way , and almost before she crossed the threshold 4 * THE GENIUS OF REFORM . 41.
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... opened in the morning to ventilate the apartment , being sha- ded by a thick curtain , had escaped Ellen's notice when she waited on the little girls to rest , and Viola , who alone observed it , being too much rejoiced at the ...
... opened in the morning to ventilate the apartment , being sha- ded by a thick curtain , had escaped Ellen's notice when she waited on the little girls to rest , and Viola , who alone observed it , being too much rejoiced at the ...
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... and quietly com- posed upon her pillow , he opened the door into the apartment where sat his wife and daughter awaiting him , and requested Ellen to close the window in Viola's bedroom , as he had noticed in 76 ELLEN CLIFFORD ; OR.
... and quietly com- posed upon her pillow , he opened the door into the apartment where sat his wife and daughter awaiting him , and requested Ellen to close the window in Viola's bedroom , as he had noticed in 76 ELLEN CLIFFORD ; OR.
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Ellen Clifford: Or the Genius of Reform (1839) Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo Sin vista previa disponible - 2008 |
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Página 91 - And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.
Página 112 - Smitten friends Are angels sent on errands full of love ; For us they languish, and for us they die...
Página 47 - Neebour's fauts and folly! Whase life is like a weel-gaun mill, Supply'd wi' store o' water, The heapet happer's ebbing still, And still the clap plays clatter. Hear me, ye venerable Core, As counsel for poor mortals, That frequent pass douce Wisdom's door, For...
Página 39 - CHARACTER. 0 born to soothe distress and lighten care, Lively as soft, and innocent as fair! Blest with that sweet simplicity of thought So rarely found, and never to be taught; Of winning speech, endearing, artless, kind, The loveliest pattern of a female mind ; Like some fair spirit from the realms of rest, With all her native heaven within her breast; So pure, so good, she scarce can guess at sin, But thinks the world without like that within ; Such melting tenderness, so fond to bless, Her charity...
Página 132 - ... flowers. Some chieftain of the forest wove The blushing card'nals o'er her brow, While by thy waves he breathed his love In many a deep and fervent vow. " How oft, along thy verdant shore, I seek to find some lingering trace Of those who made, in days of yore, Thy banks their favorite hunting-place; — Yet vain the search — no trace is found, To tell that ever dusky maid Or warrior chief hath trod the ground, Where now, perchance, their bones are laid. " Upon thy bonny banks, sweet stream,...
Página 28 - To be, or not to be, that is the question ; Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And, by opposing, end them...
Página 112 - Like blossom'd trees o'erturn'd by vernal storm, Lovely in death the beauteous ruin lay ; And if in death still lovely, lovelier there, Far lovelier ! pity swells the tide of love.
Página 132 - Upon thy tall, o'erhanging elms, Gay birds, with blue and golden breasts, Returned in troops from austral realms, Found colonies of grassy nests. They are protected — guileless birds ! For tender guardians dwell around ; And oft, with keen, reproving words, They drive the huntsman from the ground. In olden days the Indian maid , With braided tresses sought thy bowers, And rifled every sunlit glade To wreathe her locks with scarlet flowers. Some chieftain of the forest wove The blushing card'nals...
Página 131 - ve seen thy silver currents spring From fountains of Castalian dews. A wilder, or more sylvan spot, Ne'er wooed a poet's feet to roam ; Not e'en Calypso's classic grot Would be so fit a fairy's home. The birchen boughs, so interlaced, That scarce the vault of heaven is seen, With pendant vines are wildly graced — An arbor of transcendent green.
Página 64 - lay field to field ;" " and the harp and the viol, the tahret and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts,