Friends and Fortune: A Moral TaleD. Appleton & Company, 1849 - 240 pages |
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... grace . " A very sweet - looking girl entered as he spoke , who blushed slightly at the sight of Nelson , but greeted both him and Alfred with unaffected cordiality ; kissed the chil- dren , shook hands with nurse Wilton , and being ...
... grace . " A very sweet - looking girl entered as he spoke , who blushed slightly at the sight of Nelson , but greeted both him and Alfred with unaffected cordiality ; kissed the chil- dren , shook hands with nurse Wilton , and being ...
Page 40
... grace is seated on this brow ! Hyperion's curls - the front of Jove himself An eye like Mars , to threaten and command , A station like the herald Mercury , New lighted on a heaven - kissing hill ; A combination and a form indeed ...
... grace is seated on this brow ! Hyperion's curls - the front of Jove himself An eye like Mars , to threaten and command , A station like the herald Mercury , New lighted on a heaven - kissing hill ; A combination and a form indeed ...
Page 131
... them to take more cake and bread and butter : placing their chairs near the fire , out of the draught of the door , and so on , till Grace Delville , the eldest girl , looked up in her face , and FRIENDS AND FORTUNE . 131.
... them to take more cake and bread and butter : placing their chairs near the fire , out of the draught of the door , and so on , till Grace Delville , the eldest girl , looked up in her face , and FRIENDS AND FORTUNE . 131.
Page 132
... grace ful group , and not think of the poor artist's untimely end . And there were many more besides . Mary had pointed them out , each connected by some sad link with sorrow and difficulty , and the tears trembled in her eyes as she ...
... grace ful group , and not think of the poor artist's untimely end . And there were many more besides . Mary had pointed them out , each connected by some sad link with sorrow and difficulty , and the tears trembled in her eyes as she ...
Page 133
... Grace , " and if I begin in the evening , I cough all night , and keep poor mamma awake . " " And why have you not a doctor for your cough ? " " I have had one , maʼam ; but we cannot afford it . ” " Poor child , " said Miss Armadale ...
... Grace , " and if I begin in the evening , I cough all night , and keep poor mamma awake . " " And why have you not a doctor for your cough ? " " I have had one , maʼam ; but we cannot afford it . ” " Poor child , " said Miss Armadale ...
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Page 39 - O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head, As is a winged messenger of heaven Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds And sails upon the bosom of the air.
Page 40 - Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill ; A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Page 39 - Our revels now are ended... These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air, And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind: we are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep..