Friends and Fortune: A Moral TaleD. Appleton & Company, 1849 - 240 pages |
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... blessed with a more aggravating Mentor . Tell me , shall I go ? " " You have only to please yourself , my dear . " " That is what you always say , and if I do not become the most selfish person in the world , it will be no thanks to my ...
... blessed with a more aggravating Mentor . Tell me , shall I go ? " " You have only to please yourself , my dear . " " That is what you always say , and if I do not become the most selfish person in the world , it will be no thanks to my ...
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... bless me , I'm forgetting half I have to do : and those girls will ne- ver get on , unless I look after them . " Away went the busy lady , driving housemaids and help- ers before her as a dog drives sheep , worrying their very lives out ...
... bless me , I'm forgetting half I have to do : and those girls will ne- ver get on , unless I look after them . " Away went the busy lady , driving housemaids and help- ers before her as a dog drives sheep , worrying their very lives out ...
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... and ask it as His blessing ? and if He chose , could He not take it all away ? Though she is a rich and powerful lady , they say , with a dozen servants at her command , all her riches and all her power could FRIENDS AND FORTUNE . 29.
... and ask it as His blessing ? and if He chose , could He not take it all away ? Though she is a rich and powerful lady , they say , with a dozen servants at her command , all her riches and all her power could FRIENDS AND FORTUNE . 29.
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... bless your kind heart , you want help yourself : and that reminds me , Miss Esther , -whenever you like to sit quiet by the fire , or whenever you want any little thing done for you , if you'll make free to step in here 30 FRIENDS AND ...
... bless your kind heart , you want help yourself : and that reminds me , Miss Esther , -whenever you like to sit quiet by the fire , or whenever you want any little thing done for you , if you'll make free to step in here 30 FRIENDS AND ...
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... blessings they scatter round them . Her features were pleasing , her figure graceful ; she had that simple lady - like manner that invari- ably creates respect , and a sweet gentleness of voice and expression that at once made its way ...
... blessings they scatter round them . Her features were pleasing , her figure graceful ; she had that simple lady - like manner that invari- ably creates respect , and a sweet gentleness of voice and expression that at once made its way ...
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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..