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... flowers ; not a thimbleful of earth that did not do its duty . No wonder the woman took us at our word , for I am sure we looked as if we would fain set up our rest there . , All I afterward followed R. into the garden , and en ...
... flowers ; not a thimbleful of earth that did not do its duty . No wonder the woman took us at our word , for I am sure we looked as if we would fain set up our rest there . , All I afterward followed R. into the garden , and en ...
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... flowering shrubs , and sprinkled with thatched and mossy cottages - such as we have only seen in pictures - and the Solent Sea sparkling in the distance . Our first halt was at Brading Church . Blessed are those who make the scene of ...
... flowering shrubs , and sprinkled with thatched and mossy cottages - such as we have only seen in pictures - and the Solent Sea sparkling in the distance . Our first halt was at Brading Church . Blessed are those who make the scene of ...
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... flowers they have here . I see continually , plants which remain in the open ground all winter , that we are obliged to house by the first of October . There was a myrtle reaching the second - story win- dows of Mr. Wilberforce's house ...
... flowers they have here . I see continually , plants which remain in the open ground all winter , that we are obliged to house by the first of October . There was a myrtle reaching the second - story win- dows of Mr. Wilberforce's house ...
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... flowers are rooted in the crev- ices . It seemed as if Nature , with a feeling of kin- dred for a beautiful work of art , would fain hide the wounds she could not heal - wounds of violence as well as time . I shall spare you any ...
... flowers are rooted in the crev- ices . It seemed as if Nature , with a feeling of kin- dred for a beautiful work of art , would fain hide the wounds she could not heal - wounds of violence as well as time . I shall spare you any ...
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... flower is in its right place , and nothing present that should not be here . On one side of the house the garden is laid out in the fantas- tical French style , in the form of hearts and whim- sical figures , but elsewhere it is ...
... flower is in its right place , and nothing present that should not be here . On one side of the house the garden is laid out in the fantas- tical French style , in the form of hearts and whim- sical figures , but elsewhere it is ...
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Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home, Volume 2 Catharine Maria Sedgwick Visualização completa - 1841 |
Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home, Volume 2 Catharine Maria Sedgwick Visualização completa - 1841 |
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Página 74 - THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave. And spread the roof above them, — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
Página 55 - For contemplation he and valour formed, For softness she and sweet attractive grace...
Página 75 - These shall the fury Passions tear, The vultures of the mind, Disdainful Anger, pallid Fear, And Shame that skulks behind ; Or pining L,ove shall waste their youth, Or Jealousy, with rankling tooth, That inly gnaws the secret heart ; And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visaged, comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter Scorn a sacrifice, And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try, ,And hard Unkindness...
Página 154 - A blending of all beauties; streams and dells, Fruit, foliage, crag, wood, cornfield, mountain, vine, And chiefless castles breathing stern farewells From gray but leafy walls, where Ruin greenly dwells.