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Página iii
... present those types of it which are worthiest of imitation ; to sketch its amusements and occupations ; and to consider by what means its higher and purer qualities may be developed . A book about ' Girls , this is also a book ' for ...
... present those types of it which are worthiest of imitation ; to sketch its amusements and occupations ; and to consider by what means its higher and purer qualities may be developed . A book about ' Girls , this is also a book ' for ...
Página iv
... present itself , Women have laid upon them the burden of a great trust . ' All women , ' says one of their own sex , ' may not have husbands to praise them , or children to rise up and call them blessed . All women are not even free ...
... present itself , Women have laid upon them the burden of a great trust . ' All women , ' says one of their own sex , ' may not have husbands to praise them , or children to rise up and call them blessed . All women are not even free ...
Página v
... present in some detail the poetical aspects of the Garden , its graceful and picturesque associations , its romance , and its traditions . Believing that the pursuit of Gardening is singularly wholesome both for mind and body , that it ...
... present in some detail the poetical aspects of the Garden , its graceful and picturesque associations , its romance , and its traditions . Believing that the pursuit of Gardening is singularly wholesome both for mind and body , that it ...
Página vi
... present , it is repressed by art or education , that repression appears to have been detrimental to the person suffering it ; and that wherever the feeling exists , it acts for good on the character to which it belongs . ' Lastly , in ...
... present , it is repressed by art or education , that repression appears to have been detrimental to the person suffering it ; and that wherever the feeling exists , it acts for good on the character to which it belongs . ' Lastly , in ...
Página 2
... presents herself for exami- nation under several aspects . First , we must regard her as the Daughter . And in no other capacity does she appear more to advantage when she is true to herself , when she understands and discharges a ...
... presents herself for exami- nation under several aspects . First , we must regard her as the Daughter . And in no other capacity does she appear more to advantage when she is true to herself , when she understands and discharges a ...
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.