Trials: A Tale, Volume 1G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1824 - 957 pages |
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... her young charge . The extraordinary quickness of the child's abilities , and the eager delight with which she pursued every thing that was new , till its novelty was exhausted , made her so apt a scholar , that , without 9.
... her young charge . The extraordinary quickness of the child's abilities , and the eager delight with which she pursued every thing that was new , till its novelty was exhausted , made her so apt a scholar , that , without 9.
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... delight of mere existence - pleased with eve- ry thing luxuriating in the charms of nature , with all the fresh ... delighted to have loved him . But if at any time the overflow- ing of her joyous temperament betrayed itself before him ...
... delight of mere existence - pleased with eve- ry thing luxuriating in the charms of nature , with all the fresh ... delighted to have loved him . But if at any time the overflow- ing of her joyous temperament betrayed itself before him ...
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... delight of watching , from some covert at hand , how their young charge proceeded and prospered ; if Fidele was to be taught to fetch and carry , or she were to have a capital gallop through the park on the poney , the first point to be ...
... delight of watching , from some covert at hand , how their young charge proceeded and prospered ; if Fidele was to be taught to fetch and carry , or she were to have a capital gallop through the park on the poney , the first point to be ...
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... delight in hearing her , even at this early age , warble in her own sweet and natural manner , such songs as had particularly struck her fancy , and which were therefore performed with a degree of taste and skill which promised almost ...
... delight in hearing her , even at this early age , warble in her own sweet and natural manner , such songs as had particularly struck her fancy , and which were therefore performed with a degree of taste and skill which promised almost ...
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... delightful . And with these dark luxuriant eyes , the hair , the fea- tures , the complexion , so well assimilated . Those raven tresses of the deepest black might have con- trasted to advantage with a skin of lily fairness ; but they ...
... delightful . And with these dark luxuriant eyes , the hair , the fea- tures , the complexion , so well assimilated . Those raven tresses of the deepest black might have con- trasted to advantage with a skin of lily fairness ; but they ...
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Page 31 - But hail, thou goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight...
Page 50 - And from Shakespeare she gained a great store of information amongst the rest, that -'Trifles light as air, Are, to the jealous, confirmation strong, As proofs of Holy Writ.
Page 39 - But I'll do my best a gude wife to be, For auld Robin Gray is kind unto me.
Page 107 - Not in the strong wind that brake the rocks in pieces, not in the earthquake, not in the fire, but in the still small voice that followed, the Lord made himself known.
Page 93 - O that I had wings like a dove : for then would I flee away, and be at rest.
Page 48 - It was by this sort of discipline that the heart and affections of a being, whose every nerve "turned at the touch of joy or woe, and turning trembled too...
Page 97 - Habitual evils change not on a sudden: But many days must pass, and many sorrows; Conscious remorse and anguish must be felt, To curb desire, to break the stubborn will, And work a second nature in the soul, Ere Virtue can resume the place she lost: 'Tis else dissimulation — He had often read these lines, he said; but never tasted them before.