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... eyes wide awake that no twenty - pound - a - year governess , or poor person , even if a lady born and bred , should successfully angle for him . As for her son , her word to him , with few exceptions , was law ; no matron ever wielded ...
... eyes wide awake that no twenty - pound - a - year governess , or poor person , even if a lady born and bred , should successfully angle for him . As for her son , her word to him , with few exceptions , was law ; no matron ever wielded ...
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... eyes , advanced , saying to John : " I want you to make a strong chest from this well- seasoned timber , ' pointing to myself . I was very tall and broad - quite enough of me to make a good - sized box . " When it is finished ...
... eyes , advanced , saying to John : " I want you to make a strong chest from this well- seasoned timber , ' pointing to myself . I was very tall and broad - quite enough of me to make a good - sized box . " When it is finished ...
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... eyes of Miss Eva , while the voice of my master seemed to grow more imperious than ever ; but I was still in the dark as to the movements of the household . At last I was carried up to the front hall , where I was set down amongst a ...
... eyes of Miss Eva , while the voice of my master seemed to grow more imperious than ever ; but I was still in the dark as to the movements of the household . At last I was carried up to the front hall , where I was set down amongst a ...
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... eyes , dear , before your father comes home . You know you start on your journey to- morrow , and poor me will be left behind . ' " Yes , dear Laura . I know that I must do my best to comfort my father now , and help him in his trouble ...
... eyes , dear , before your father comes home . You know you start on your journey to- morrow , and poor me will be left behind . ' " Yes , dear Laura . I know that I must do my best to comfort my father now , and help him in his trouble ...
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... eyes at the trees and fields and the brown river Cart . But amid villas , tene- ments , and shops , there survive little " bits " of old Cathcart- bits so exquisite that one hardly knows which to do - to be thankful that these still ...
... eyes at the trees and fields and the brown river Cart . But amid villas , tene- ments , and shops , there survive little " bits " of old Cathcart- bits so exquisite that one hardly knows which to do - to be thankful that these still ...
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Página 466 - And with them the Being Beauteous Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies.
Página 469 - The pleasant books, that silently among Our household treasures take familiar places, And are to us as if a living tongue Spake from the printed leaves or pictured faces...
Página 476 - And having dropped the expected bag — pass on. He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, Cold and yet cheerful: messenger of grief Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some, To him indifferent whether grief or joy.
Página 34 - Though I threw out my speculations to entertain and employ the learned and metaphysical world, yet in other things I do not think so differently from the rest of mankind as you may imagine.
Página 250 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was indeed honest, and of an. open and free nature ; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions...
Página 446 - Bell Into this world of ours ? The gates of heaven were left ajar; With folded hands and dreamy eyes. Wandering out of Paradise, She saw this planet, like a star, Hung in the glistening depths of even, Its bridges, running to and fro. O'er which the white-winged angels go, Bearing the holy dead to heaven.
Página 249 - Jesus' sake, forbeare To dig the dust enclosed here: Blessed be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.
Página 141 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Página 210 - Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all Nature's law, Admired such wisdom in an earthly shape And showed a Newton as we show an ape.
Página 258 - I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct you to a hill-side, where I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.