Henri: Or, the Web and Woof of LifeAbel Tompkins and B. B. Mussey, 1853 - 432 páginas |
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... cold and distant , and I was always glad when she took her departure , for I kept thinking of Helen . I prayed for strength ; for I wanted to take her out of the hands of Deacon Webber . How ardently I longed to see her once more , and ...
... cold and distant , and I was always glad when she took her departure , for I kept thinking of Helen . I prayed for strength ; for I wanted to take her out of the hands of Deacon Webber . How ardently I longed to see her once more , and ...
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... Cold Spring . If you can so manage as to have her there , dressed like a boy , all will be well . " Proceed with due caution , and tell the little girl not to " breathe a word to any one . " Thy affectionate uncle , " THOMAS EATON . " I ...
... Cold Spring . If you can so manage as to have her there , dressed like a boy , all will be well . " Proceed with due caution , and tell the little girl not to " breathe a word to any one . " Thy affectionate uncle , " THOMAS EATON . " I ...
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... Cold Spring . I knew not what to think . " My mother went away without informing me that she " was to be absent for any length of time , or that she was to visit you . " The poor child was in the greatest distress when she was obliged ...
... Cold Spring . I knew not what to think . " My mother went away without informing me that she " was to be absent for any length of time , or that she was to visit you . " The poor child was in the greatest distress when she was obliged ...
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... sublime bombast , and hypocritical nonsense and wickedness , caused my mother to draw a long breath , while she seemed to shake as though cold chills were creeping over her . I was tempted to ask her 74 MY MOTHER AND DEACON WEBBER .
... sublime bombast , and hypocritical nonsense and wickedness , caused my mother to draw a long breath , while she seemed to shake as though cold chills were creeping over her . I was tempted to ask her 74 MY MOTHER AND DEACON WEBBER .
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... Cold Spring " with sad hearts . I never was more unhappy than when " I turned my horse towards home . I felt deeply afflicted for the little wanderer , and accused myself of neglect " of duty , for not coming after her the week before ...
... Cold Spring " with sad hearts . I never was more unhappy than when " I turned my horse towards home . I felt deeply afflicted for the little wanderer , and accused myself of neglect " of duty , for not coming after her the week before ...
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Términos y frases comunes
abuse agony angel beautiful believe better bless brooklet cause cheeks child cold Columbia House daguerreotyped dark Deacon Webber dear death Dinneford dream Eaton Edgarton Ernest Ernest Brown eyes face father fear feel felt Flanders forgive friends gave gazed glad Good-morning hand happy head hear heard heart heaven Helen Means Henri Herbert Hezekiah holy kisses hope inquired Irene James Stewart Jane knew Lebanon Lelia light little girl little Katy live looked marriage marry Mary morning mother never night once pale parents passionate pharisaical Philip Austin pleasant poor prayed for death rapture replied returned seemed Shakers sick smile soon soul spirit Stewart strange suffered suppose sweet talk tears tell thankful things thought told trees truth uncle and aunt walked wicked wish woods words wrong
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Página 221 - With a soft cheek upon the lulling tide, Forgot the lifting winds; and the long stems, Whose flowers the water, like a gentle nurse, Bears on its bosom, quietly gave way, And leaned, in graceful attitudes, to rest. How strikingly the course of nature tells, By its light heed of human suffering, That it was fashioned for a happier world ! King David's limbs were weary.
Página 328 - COME LIFE, ETERNAL SHAKE, SHAKE OUT OF ME, ALL THAT IS CARNAL.
Página 312 - It has been truly said, that there is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Página 282 - They love me ! they love me ! Deeply, sincerely ; And more than aught else on earth, I love them dearly.
Página 285 - That very hour — when passion, turned to wrath, Resembled hatred most — when thy disdain Made my whole soul a chaos — in that hour The tempters found me a revengeful tool For their revenge ! Thou hadst trampled on the worm — It turn'd and stung thee ! PAULINE.
Página 170 - I care not how humble, for happy 'twould be, If one faithful heart will but share it with me. Our haunts shall be nature's own beautiful bowers, Our gems shall be nature's own beautiful flowers ; All woo'd by the sunshine, and kissed by the gale, The proudest might envy our home in the vale.
Página 282 - O, agony ! deep agony, For heart that's proud and high, To learn of fate how desolate It may be ere it die.
Página iv - more fur the good that might be wrought than for the approving smiles of those who ever walk with their backs to the sun and their faces to the past.
Página 262 - From the bent bush, as through the verdant maze Of sweetbriar hedges I pursue my walk ; Or taste the smell of dairy ; or ascend Some eminence, Augusta, in thy plains, And see the country, far diffused around, One boundless blush, one white empurpled shower Of mingled blossoms...