Ladies' Magazine, Volume 2Putnam & Hunt, 1829 |
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... hand , and keep within the scope and likelihood of their own abilities to perform , on the other . The rage for novelties is at present universal , and seems insatiable . New writers , as well as new books , are constantly demanded ...
... hand , and keep within the scope and likelihood of their own abilities to perform , on the other . The rage for novelties is at present universal , and seems insatiable . New writers , as well as new books , are constantly demanded ...
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... hand of time , nor the vanity of man , had left a ruin or a record there . Yet my sensations were totally different . Then I was delighted with the beauty of the view , -the mere change of tint and ap- pearance , was all on which my ...
... hand of time , nor the vanity of man , had left a ruin or a record there . Yet my sensations were totally different . Then I was delighted with the beauty of the view , -the mere change of tint and ap- pearance , was all on which my ...
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... hand , the wilful lock of hair is sure to follow ; and at length , blushing beneath the gaze of one who watches to ... hands occa- sions a momentary pressure . But the lovers see nothing very terrible in the matron's frown ; for virtuous ...
... hand , the wilful lock of hair is sure to follow ; and at length , blushing beneath the gaze of one who watches to ... hands occa- sions a momentary pressure . But the lovers see nothing very terrible in the matron's frown ; for virtuous ...
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... hand almost unconsciously resigns itself to her lover's eager grasp . And next they talk , with an unwavering be- lief , of ghosts , and witches , and all the machinations of the evil one . How fearfully they cast their eyes towards the ...
... hand almost unconsciously resigns itself to her lover's eager grasp . And next they talk , with an unwavering be- lief , of ghosts , and witches , and all the machinations of the evil one . How fearfully they cast their eyes towards the ...
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... hand , from the ignorance of women , which render them unfit to discharge their duties properly , and on the other hand , from that pride of learning which leads them to despise their duties and neglect them altogeth- er . For it is to ...
... hand , from the ignorance of women , which render them unfit to discharge their duties properly , and on the other hand , from that pride of learning which leads them to despise their duties and neglect them altogeth- er . For it is to ...
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Page 474 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 474 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Page 52 - Discourse may want an animated — No, To brush the surface, and to make it flow ; But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease. The mark, at which my juster aim I take, Is contradiction for its own dear sake.
Page 527 - Extolling patience as the truest fortitude; And to the bearing well of all calamities, All chances incident to man's frail life, Consolatories writ With studied argument, and much persuasion sought, Lenient of grief and anxious thought: But with the...
Page 537 - This, this is he, softly a while, Let us not break in upon him. O change beyond report, thought, or belief!
Page 140 - ... how intense were my sufferings. But the point, the acme of my distress, consisted in the awful uncertainty of our final fate. My prevailing opinion was, that my husband would suffer violent death ; and that I should, of course, become a slave, and languish out a miserable though short existence, in the tyrannic hands of some unfeeling monster. But the consolations of religion, in these trying circumstances, were neither
Page 139 - Sometimes, for days and days together, I could not go into the prison till after dark, when I had two miles to walk, in returning to the house. O how many, many times...
Page 139 - During these seven months, the continual extortions and oppressions to which your brother, and the other white prisoners were subject, are indescribable. Sometimes sums of money were demanded, sometimes pieces of cloth, and handkerchiefs; at other times, an order would be issued, that the white foreigners should not speak to each other, or have any communication with their friends without. Then, again, the servants were forbidden to carry in their food, without an extra fee.
Page 514 - His talk was like a stream, which runs With rapid change from rocks to roses: It slipped from politics to puns, It passed from Mahomet to Moses; Beginning with the laws which keep The planets in their radiant courses, And ending with some precept deep For dressing eels, or shoeing horses.