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Page 110
... Clara Maria , now in her fifteenth year , she urged her to listen to the suit of her lover , Joseph Seaton , who had for some time renewed his addresses . Agnes heard the advice of her mother with patience and attention , and taking it ...
... Clara Maria , now in her fifteenth year , she urged her to listen to the suit of her lover , Joseph Seaton , who had for some time renewed his addresses . Agnes heard the advice of her mother with patience and attention , and taking it ...
Page 113
... Clara Maria , who , as Agnes brought him no family , and as she was the child of the only being on earth who had ever thawed his icy heart , became a great favorite with him . About a year after Agnes ' real marriage , Mary Woodford was ...
... Clara Maria , who , as Agnes brought him no family , and as she was the child of the only being on earth who had ever thawed his icy heart , became a great favorite with him . About a year after Agnes ' real marriage , Mary Woodford was ...
Page 114
... Clara Maria to take down from the top of a high oldfashioned bureau , a small square box , which neither Agnes nor herself had ever seen him open . He requested them to go down stairs and remain there till he should knock for them to ...
... Clara Maria to take down from the top of a high oldfashioned bureau , a small square box , which neither Agnes nor herself had ever seen him open . He requested them to go down stairs and remain there till he should knock for them to ...
Page 115
... Clara Maria , whose disposition to amuse her mother was mingled with a degree of curiosity by no means uncommon with the sex , said to her , Mother , hast thou never had a wish to examine the contents of the cabinet that father let fall ...
... Clara Maria , whose disposition to amuse her mother was mingled with a degree of curiosity by no means uncommon with the sex , said to her , Mother , hast thou never had a wish to examine the contents of the cabinet that father let fall ...
Page 118
... Clara Maria to her father , as he had already demanded her . She lingered for a few weeks longer , and then at the age of thirtyfive the once blooming and lovely Ag- nes Woodford resigned her wounded spirit , without a groan or struggle ...
... Clara Maria to her father , as he had already demanded her . She lingered for a few weeks longer , and then at the age of thirtyfive the once blooming and lovely Ag- nes Woodford resigned her wounded spirit , without a groan or struggle ...
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Page 89 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed. The mustering squadron, and the clattering car. Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war...
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Page 109 - To press the weary minutes' flagging wings; New sorrow rises as the day returns, A sister sickens, or a daughter mourns; Now kindred Merit fills the sable bier, Now lacerated Friendship claims a tear; Year chases year, decay pursues decay, Still drops some joy from...
Page 79 - His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles ; His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate ; His tears, pure messengers sent from his heart ; His heart as far from fraud, as heaven from earth.
Page 186 - Ah me! for aught that ever I could read. Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth: But, either it was different in blood; Her.
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Page 32 - It were all one, That I should love a bright particular star, And think to wed it, he is so above me: In his bright radiance and collateral light Must I be comforted, not in his sphere.
Page 194 - Oh grief, beyond all other griefs, when fate First leaves the young heart lone and desolate In the wide world, without that only tie For which it loved to live or feared to die...
Page 155 - And lean-looked prophets whisper fearful change. Rich men look sad, and ruffians dance and leap. The one, in fear to lose what they enjoy, The other to enjoy by rage and war. These signs forerun the death or fall of Kings.