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Page 141
... Soaper's offer , Harry was so vexed with me , that he protested that I was not fit to take care of myself . Soaper is a regular old screw ! " he exclaimed , " and his wife a regular old screwess . Eighty pounds a year ! why , my father ...
... Soaper's offer , Harry was so vexed with me , that he protested that I was not fit to take care of myself . Soaper is a regular old screw ! " he exclaimed , " and his wife a regular old screwess . Eighty pounds a year ! why , my father ...
Page 143
... Soaper and Roost ? " " Why , it was rather curious ; and so , of course , you will not repeat it . When he called me into his library , there was a little hesitation in his manner , which I thought arose from his knowing nothing about ...
... Soaper and Roost ? " " Why , it was rather curious ; and so , of course , you will not repeat it . When he called me into his library , there was a little hesitation in his manner , which I thought arose from his knowing nothing about ...
Page 144
... Soaper was content to engage me , I felt that I could only be thankful . It was for him to object , not for me . If he can put up with my ignorance and inexpe- rience , I can have no fear but that I shall be able to meet his wishes . I ...
... Soaper was content to engage me , I felt that I could only be thankful . It was for him to object , not for me . If he can put up with my ignorance and inexpe- rience , I can have no fear but that I shall be able to meet his wishes . I ...
Page 145
... Soaper , so , judging from his letters , it was what I expected to find in him . But to this Harry only replied by whistling that foolish song which he always introduces when he wishes to be provoking , " Merrily danced the quaker's ...
... Soaper , so , judging from his letters , it was what I expected to find in him . But to this Harry only replied by whistling that foolish song which he always introduces when he wishes to be provoking , " Merrily danced the quaker's ...
Page 152
... Soaper better ( for it was he ) I may see how far the permitted prejudices of my very ill - regulated mind led me , and so may read myself a sharp lesson for the time to come . " Have I the pleasure of speaking to Mr. Dove ? " I am ...
... Soaper better ( for it was he ) I may see how far the permitted prejudices of my very ill - regulated mind led me , and so may read myself a sharp lesson for the time to come . " Have I the pleasure of speaking to Mr. Dove ? " I am ...
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Page 31 - twill be eleven; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale.
Page 144 - Of manners gentle, of affections mild ; In wit, a man ; simplicity, a child ; With native humour temp'ring virtuous rage, Form'd to delight at once and lash the age ; Above temptation, in a low estate ; And uncorrupted...
Page 233 - WHEN gathering clouds around I view, And days are dark, and friends are few, On Him I lean, who, not in vain, Experienced every human pain ; He sees my wants, allays my fears, And counts and treasures up my tears.
Page 133 - Sweet are the uses of adversity ; Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head...
Page 221 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made, When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the Baron's casque, the maid To the nigh streamlet ran.
Page 182 - If to do were as easy as to know what were^ good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.