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... party are expected next Fourth - day . ' ' How young a lady is Miss Ather- ton ? ' asked Rachel . - - ' Oh ! quite young ; a school - girl- sixteen or seventeen , and something of a witch , I fancy . I will introduce her to thee , and ...
... party are expected next Fourth - day . ' ' How young a lady is Miss Ather- ton ? ' asked Rachel . - - ' Oh ! quite young ; a school - girl- sixteen or seventeen , and something of a witch , I fancy . I will introduce her to thee , and ...
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... party who were going out on the pond . ' Oh ! ' exclaimed Mrs. Crossthwaite . ' Oh ! ' exclaimed Mrs. Atherton . ' Min- nie must n't go on the water in the evening ! You would catch such a cold , my dear ! ' But Minnie had inwardly ...
... party who were going out on the pond . ' Oh ! ' exclaimed Mrs. Crossthwaite . ' Oh ! ' exclaimed Mrs. Atherton . ' Min- nie must n't go on the water in the evening ! You would catch such a cold , my dear ! ' But Minnie had inwardly ...
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... party , the latter declaring his belief that his sister ' wouldn't have so bad a time , after all , ' in that village . This occasioned a little altercation , by way of restoring the balance of Minnie's temper , which had been disturbed ...
... party , the latter declaring his belief that his sister ' wouldn't have so bad a time , after all , ' in that village . This occasioned a little altercation , by way of restoring the balance of Minnie's temper , which had been disturbed ...
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... party returned to Friend Whiting's house , and there Rachel's tears fell quietly , while the bright smile on her lips belied them , as she received her father's and her mother's kiss . Abel's mother , Joseph and Samuel fol- lowed , then ...
... party returned to Friend Whiting's house , and there Rachel's tears fell quietly , while the bright smile on her lips belied them , as she received her father's and her mother's kiss . Abel's mother , Joseph and Samuel fol- lowed , then ...
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... parties at head- quarters . Victor had once or twice made some excuse for not riding with him as usual ; but the surgeon told him he was right to make the most of ladies ' society , for he would have little enough of it soon , and ...
... parties at head- quarters . Victor had once or twice made some excuse for not riding with him as usual ; but the surgeon told him he was right to make the most of ladies ' society , for he would have little enough of it soon , and ...
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Page 372 - He, too, is no mean preacher: Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher. She has a world of ready wealth, Our minds and hearts to bless — Spontaneous wisdom breathed by health, Truth breathed by cheerfulness. One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
Page 354 - Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe and pale jessamine, The white pink and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose and the well-attired woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears : Bid Amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffadillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.
Page 99 - It is the little rift within the lute, That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.
Page 474 - Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die, Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
Page 99 - They are like the troubled sea, that cannot rest; whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
Page 90 - In his family, gentle, generous, good-humored, affectionate, self-denying: in society, a delightful example of complete gentlemanhood ; quite unspoiled by prosperity ; never obsequious to the great (or, worse still, to the base and mean, as some public men are forced to be in his and other countries) ; eager to acknowledge every contemporary's merit; always kind and affable...
Page 354 - Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyes, That on the green turf suck the honied showers, And purple all the ground with vernal flowers.
Page 90 - ... the young members of his calling; in his professional bargains and mercantile dealings, delicately honest and grateful; one of the most charming masters of our lighter language; the constant friend to us and our nation ; to men of letters doubly dear, not for his wit and genius merely, but as an exemplar of goodness, probity, and pure life...
Page 226 - The rounded world is fair to see, Nine times folded in mystery: Though baffled seers cannot impart The secret of its laboring heart, Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast, And all is clear from east to west.
Page 474 - And thou, serenest moon, That with such holy face Dost look upon the earth Asleep in Night's embrace Tell me, in all thy round Hast thou not seen some spot Where miserable man Might find a happier lot? Behind a cloud the moon withdrew in woe, And a voice sweet but sad responded, No.