Selections from modern authors, for the use of schools, by mrs. Gething1838 - 80 pages |
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... the course of which , the sick woman , he perceived , was endeavouring to pre- vail on her husband to grant her some request which he was unwilling to concede . " But listen , here , Ned can't you , 18 SELECTIONS FROM.
... the course of which , the sick woman , he perceived , was endeavouring to pre- vail on her husband to grant her some request which he was unwilling to concede . " But listen , here , Ned can't you , 18 SELECTIONS FROM.
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... husband re - entered the outer apartment , and took his seat with a pleased though troubled aspect , by the now blazing fire . He seemed totally for- getful of the stranger's presence , and continued to turn the roots in the simmering ...
... husband re - entered the outer apartment , and took his seat with a pleased though troubled aspect , by the now blazing fire . He seemed totally for- getful of the stranger's presence , and continued to turn the roots in the simmering ...
Page 24
... husband . " If he's as hard on you as you are on us , you are to be pitied with him . I'll tell you what it is , sir , " he added , after a pause and with a totally altered tone . " I'd consider it nothing less than murdering my wife to ...
... husband . " If he's as hard on you as you are on us , you are to be pitied with him . I'll tell you what it is , sir , " he added , after a pause and with a totally altered tone . " I'd consider it nothing less than murdering my wife to ...
Page 54
... husband his little patrimony with prudence , unless he increased it by the ordinary method - that of teaching : but there was , according to his apprehension , a degradation in this mode of employing his abilities , unworthy of a man of ...
... husband his little patrimony with prudence , unless he increased it by the ordinary method - that of teaching : but there was , according to his apprehension , a degradation in this mode of employing his abilities , unworthy of a man of ...
Page 55
... husband , fast waning to a close , she became extremely anxious to see those talents , on which she had so often meditated with de- light , produce something like the harvest so long promised , especially as she was become the mother of ...
... husband , fast waning to a close , she became extremely anxious to see those talents , on which she had so often meditated with de- light , produce something like the harvest so long promised , especially as she was become the mother of ...
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Page 336 - O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best ; And save his good broad-sword he weapon had none, He rode all unarmed, and he rode all alone. So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
Page 45 - BRIGHTEST and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness, and lend us Thine aid; Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
Page 337 - Netherby gate, The bride had consented, the gallant came late; For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar. So boldly he...
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Page 336 - He stayed not for brake, and he stopped not for stone, He swam the Eske River where ford there was none; But, ere he alighted at Netherby gate, The bride had consented, the gallant came late: For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.
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Page 98 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he; Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Page 337 - The bride kissed the goblet, the knight took it up ; He quaffed off the wine, and he threw down the cup ; She looked down to blush, and she looked up to sigh, With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.
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