The Panorama of Youth, Volumen1M. Carey, 1816 |
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accompanied affection affectionate Alfred Ambleside amused appeared Archy Arthur asked assistance attention beauty Bertha blessing Charlotte chil child cottage daugh dear dear father Delia delight Derbyshire distress door dren elegant Eliza Elmwood Eloise exclaimed face father feel flowers fortune friends frock garden gentleman gout Grasmere grateful green happy Harriet Harvey heard heart heaven honour hope Jennet Julia kind knew lake lake invite lected little girl live look Lucy mamma Mary Mildmay Mildmay's mind Miss Dudley Miss Evelyn Miss Sydney morning mother neat negro never offer Panorama papa parish parish al passed Perseus picture pleasant pleasure poor possessed purchase Quasheba received rejoiced replied rose-tree rusal santry seated shade side sister soon Stuart sure sweet tender thing thought tion told traveller vales Vansittart village walk whilst white tower whole wish woman young youth Zambo
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Página 81 - It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!
Página 152 - Rich in content, in Nature's bounty rich, In herbs and fruits ; whatever greens the Spring When heaven descends in showers, or bends the bough When Summer reddens and when Autumn beams, Or in the wintry glebe whatever lies Conceal'd, and fattens with the richest sap...
Página 109 - ... a cup of cold water, given to one of these little ones," is accepted by Heaven, and calls down a blessing on the giver.
Página 78 - Rich was his soul, though his attire was poor, As God had cloth'd his own ambassador. For such, on Earth, his bless'd Redeemer bore. Of sixty years he seem'd ; and well might last To sixty more, but that he liv'd too fast ; Refin'd himself to soul, to curb the sense ; And made almost a sin of abstinence.
Página 62 - Yes," said Mrs. Mildmay, " and have shown you know the true way 'to purchase pleasure.' " THE TRIUMPH OF FILIAL AFFECTIOX. •• Lo, the poor Indian, whose ontutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, and hears him in the wind.
Página 153 - ... clear. Here too dwells simple truth ; plain innocence; unsullied beauty; sound unbroken youth, patient of labour, with a little pleas'd; health ever blooming; unambitious toil; calm contemplation, and poetic ease.
Página 68 - ... Quasheba : the advertisement was soon answered ; and my brother accompanied his slave to the place directed, wishing to render every assistance to so noble a transaction. The man they had to deal with, was sordid and avaricious : Unmoved by your uncle's representation of the affair, he demanded the full price Quasheba cost him, though conscious her value had decreased by years and labour. For this, her son had been prepared, and was provided : the bargain was made. When your uncle learnt poor...
Página 63 - you do not form your opinions too hastily, but submit them to the direction of those more experienced. Your scholars, my Arthur, are but improper judges of the general actions of Mankind ; but an abhorrence of cruelty is what I hope you, and all your companions, will ever possess. For the honour of humanity, I trust the dreadful accounts we have heard of the treatment of negroes, are agravated ; but I fear the principles of the slave-trade are founded on injustice and oppression.
Página 68 - Oh, my good Buckra,' said he,' Zambo so happy! Zambo jump for joy, sing for joy, cry for joy !'—and the tears kept pace with his assertions. After your uncle had moderated his transports, he learnt from him, that, previous to his purchase of Zambo, his mother had been bought by the overseer of a distant plantation. This weight on the pious negro's filial heart had bent him to the earth: all the fruits of his industry, all his self-denial, had tended to this point, the purchase of his mother's freedom:...
Página 69 - Quashcba lived but a few weeks; but those were not spent in vain. As she blessed her son, she told him, the Great Spirit would protect him; and his father, whom she was going to meet, would bless him. Oh! how contented she died, in the arms of her beloved Zambo ! The last offices of humanity...