Henri: Or, the Web and Woof of LifeAbel Tompkins and B. B. Mussey, 1853 - 432 páginas |
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... things here narrated are true , and the characters real . Such questions are frequently addressed to an author ; but it is doubtful whether they should be , for his book may contain much truth beneath a " thin veil of fiction , " and ...
... things here narrated are true , and the characters real . Such questions are frequently addressed to an author ; but it is doubtful whether they should be , for his book may contain much truth beneath a " thin veil of fiction , " and ...
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... thing in your hands ? " “ If you please , sir . An't she a beauty ? I'm in love with her . Just see how clean and nice she is ! - I looked at her , and saw that she was dirty and ragged , fearfully so . " Who is she ? " I inquired ...
... thing in your hands ? " “ If you please , sir . An't she a beauty ? I'm in love with her . Just see how clean and nice she is ! - I looked at her , and saw that she was dirty and ragged , fearfully so . " Who is she ? " I inquired ...
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... things could not be ; where children would be ever cared for , fed , clothed and educated , even if their parents should forsake them entirely . A state of society where there should be " Freedom , Equality , and Fraternity ; " where ...
... things could not be ; where children would be ever cared for , fed , clothed and educated , even if their parents should forsake them entirely . A state of society where there should be " Freedom , Equality , and Fraternity ; " where ...
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... things ; but you are old enough now . Deacon Web- ber has often alluded to your father , and warned others , lest they too should turn their eyes from the light , and imbibe an error so false and pernicious . Have you never heard him ...
... things ; but you are old enough now . Deacon Web- ber has often alluded to your father , and warned others , lest they too should turn their eyes from the light , and imbibe an error so false and pernicious . Have you never heard him ...
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... things I would say to her , to cheer her up and make her smile with bright hope ; very wise things , no doubt , but , alas ! like the beautifully formed speeches of a lover , they were never spoken . In three weeks from the time I ...
... things I would say to her , to cheer her up and make her smile with bright hope ; very wise things , no doubt , but , alas ! like the beautifully formed speeches of a lover , they were never spoken . In three weeks from the time I ...
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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...