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... hope that their number will be reduced by the growing expansion of the movement for the higher educa- tion of young women . But I have one in my mind's eye as the angel in the house , ' - a true , pure , noble English girl ; one who can ...
... hope that their number will be reduced by the growing expansion of the movement for the higher educa- tion of young women . But I have one in my mind's eye as the angel in the house , ' - a true , pure , noble English girl ; one who can ...
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... hope she was in the house , My mind turns to a subsequent period , when we went to stay at Elmdon . She was then seventeen , an exceedingly lovely girl , the sunshine and joy of the whole houschold , full of mirth , elasticity , and ...
... hope she was in the house , My mind turns to a subsequent period , when we went to stay at Elmdon . She was then seventeen , an exceedingly lovely girl , the sunshine and joy of the whole houschold , full of mirth , elasticity , and ...
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... hope to achieve that particular object which our Almighty Father has set before us , and this in no ambitious or restless mood : ' Not as although we thought we could do much , Or claimed large sphere of action for ourselves ; Not in ...
... hope to achieve that particular object which our Almighty Father has set before us , and this in no ambitious or restless mood : ' Not as although we thought we could do much , Or claimed large sphere of action for ourselves ; Not in ...
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... hope papa is well , also Flo and Kate . Has Kate been to Mrs. W.'s yet ? What did she wear ? Was it her blue silk ? My Sunday dress looks rather old and shabby , and I think you ought to give me a new one . I don't like French at all ...
... hope papa is well , also Flo and Kate . Has Kate been to Mrs. W.'s yet ? What did she wear ? Was it her blue silk ? My Sunday dress looks rather old and shabby , and I think you ought to give me a new one . I don't like French at all ...
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... hope is her entire indifference to praise - not approval , but praise . If she has not come up to her own standard , she works on , not always with good temper , but perseveringly , and entirely unheeding of commen- dation , till she ...
... hope is her entire indifference to praise - not approval , but praise . If she has not come up to her own standard , she works on , not always with good temper , but perseveringly , and entirely unheeding of commen- dation , till she ...
Términos y frases comunes
Autumn beauty beds Biography birds bloom blossoms blue boughs bright Bryan Waller Proctor Caroline Herschel character Charles Charles Kingsley Charles Lamb Charlotte Brontë charm colour cultivate daffodil daisies daughter delight earth English Essays feel fiction flowers fragrance fresh fuchsias garden gathering gentle GIRL'S GARDEN Girls golden graceful grass green ground grow happy Harriet Martineau heart hedge History of England hyacinths Jean Ingelow John labour Lady leaves light lives Lord Lord Macaulay Madame maiden Mary mind Miss month nature nest never noble pink plants pleasant pleasure poems poet poetry pots primroses Queen reader Rose S. R. Gardiner Sara Coleridge says season Sepals shade Shakespeare sing sister soil song spring Stopford Brooke summer sweet Thomas Carlyle thought trees violet walk wild William wind winter women wood writer yellow young
Pasajes populares
Página 264 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food : For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Página 263 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
Página 251 - To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel...
Página 216 - DAFFODILS FAIR Daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon : As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song ; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along.
Página 183 - I were to pray for a taste -which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.
Página 216 - FAIR Daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon ; As yet the early-rising sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song ; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay, As you, or anything. We die As your hours do, and dry Away, Like to the summer's rain ; Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again.
Página 118 - Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long.
Página 89 - All things to man's delightful use. The roof Of thickest covert was inwoven shade, Laurel and myrtle, and what higher grew Of firm and fragrant leaf ; on either side Acanthus, and each odorous bushy shrub, Fenced up the verdant wall ; each beauteous flower, Iris all hues, roses and jessamine, Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought Mosaic ; underfoot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth, with rich inlay Broidered the ground, more coloured than with stone Of costliest emblem : other creature...
Página 101 - Then the pied windflowers and the tulip tall, And narcissi, the fairest among them all, Who gaze on their eyes in the stream's recess, Till they die of their own dear loveliness...
Página 227 - To seek thee did I often rove Through woods and on the green; And thou wert still a hope, a love; Still longed for, never seen.