The Token of Friendship: An Offering for All Seasons ...Phillips, Sampson, 1853 |
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... sure . " 66 Oh , ma'am , " was Lucy's faltering reply ; " I am too happy to be employed by you . I will be sure to get the quadrilles ready by to - morrow . " God pity her . She spoke the truth . She was too happy to be employed by Mrs ...
... sure . " 66 Oh , ma'am , " was Lucy's faltering reply ; " I am too happy to be employed by you . I will be sure to get the quadrilles ready by to - morrow . " God pity her . She spoke the truth . She was too happy to be employed by Mrs ...
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... sure it is the identical one he threw into the water yesterday , and behold , by the wisdom of Providence , the tide last night left it within five yards of the cottage ! I was sure , my lady , you valued the key -- so here it is ...
... sure it is the identical one he threw into the water yesterday , and behold , by the wisdom of Providence , the tide last night left it within five yards of the cottage ! I was sure , my lady , you valued the key -- so here it is ...
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... sure . The joy , the hope , that visited her heart was of short duration . A second time she beheld her hus- band arraigned as a criminal : his trial was a searching one , and his sentence was deemed severe . But , as a superior man ...
... sure . The joy , the hope , that visited her heart was of short duration . A second time she beheld her hus- band arraigned as a criminal : his trial was a searching one , and his sentence was deemed severe . But , as a superior man ...
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... , " and won't he be proud of the gift you have for him ? " she added , looking at the sleeping child ; " oh , sure and it is I must be at the merry meeting . " " Who has such right , Bridget ? But it 110 THE HEROINE OF THE HUON .
... , " and won't he be proud of the gift you have for him ? " she added , looking at the sleeping child ; " oh , sure and it is I must be at the merry meeting . " " Who has such right , Bridget ? But it 110 THE HEROINE OF THE HUON .
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... Sure I shall be fit for nothing this blessed day - and the babes , too why we are chang- ing places with them , and crying , as if they could not do it much better than we . Take heart , woman dear , the boy will need all your care ...
... Sure I shall be fit for nothing this blessed day - and the babes , too why we are chang- ing places with them , and crying , as if they could not do it much better than we . Take heart , woman dear , the boy will need all your care ...
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Alice asked beauty better blessed blue eyes Bridget Bridget Ryan bright child Cousin Kate Damer daugh dear death door dream Drewatt evil exclaimed face father fear feel felt flowers fortune gentle gifted girl gone hand happy heard heart Herbert Hinchliff Hobart Town hope husband Jasper kindly King of Bavaria knew Lady Borrowdale Lady Maria lips looked lover Lucy Freeling Markham marriage Medwin merry Michael Callan mind Miss morning mother never night Noel Fletcher Norfolk Island once pale passed perhaps poet poor proud quadrilles Ralph Ashton replied returned Richard Robert Smith rose seemed Sir Percy Skipton smile soon sorrow spirit ST KEYNE stancy stood suffered Sutherland sweet tears tell tender thee thou thought tion uncle voice weep widow wife wild William Howard woman YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY young youth
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Page 96 - While love, unknown among the blest, Parent of thousand wild desires, The savage and the human breast, Torments alike with raging fires ; " With bright, but oft destructive, gleam, Alike o'er all his lightnings fly ; Thy lambent glories only beam Around the fav'rites of the sky. " Thy gentle flows of guiltless joys On fools and villains ne'er descend : In vain for thee the tyrant sighs, And hugs a flatterer for a friend. " Directress of the brave and just, O guide us through life's darksome way !...
Page 189 - St. Keyne,' quoth the Cornish-man, 'many a time Drank of this crystal Well, And before the Angel summoned her, She laid on the water a spell. 'If the husband of this gifted Well Shall drink before his wife, A happy man thenceforth is he, For he shall be master for life.
Page 201 - A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we see nothing but spires of temples and turrets of palaces, and imagine it the residence of splendour, grandeur, and magnificence; but when we have passed the gates, we find it perplexed with narrow passages, disgraced with despicable cottages, embarrassed with obstructions, and clouded with smoke.
Page 96 - FRIENDSHIP, peculiar boon of heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride. To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied. While love unknown among the blest, Parent of thousand wild desires, The savage and the human breast Torments alike with raging fires; With bright, but oft destructive, gleam, Alike o'er all his lightnings fly ; Thy lambent glories only beam Around the fav'rites of the sky.
Page 257 - ... probation before receiving formal permission to render each other happy or miserable for life. " Medwin, your father is waiting for you ; all is ready for your departure," said Sutherland. Ella sobbed bitterly, and Medwin whispered to her — " True constancy no time, no power can move, He that hath known to change ne'er knew to love.
Page 186 - But the life of every man is as the wellspring of a stream, whose small beginnings are indeed plain to all, but whose ulterior course and destination, as it winds through the expanses of infinite years, only the Omniscient can discern.
Page 224 - The minds of his children, — of his wife,—his own mind, are so many microcosms, which only ask to be inquired into and developed, to reveal hoards of wealth, which may be coined into current enjoyment. We are ever too little sensible of the good immediately within our grasp; too ready to cavil at difficulties and to declare them impossibilities. A great man once said there were no such things, and as all proverbs have their foundation in practical truth, this idea may receive confirmation from...