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... persons as Mr. Rogers , and even that most refined and delicate of gentlewomen , Miss Joanna Baillie , may be strictly called , after the full exhibitions in Moore's Life of Byron and Lockhart's Life of Scott . I have violated no ...
... persons as Mr. Rogers , and even that most refined and delicate of gentlewomen , Miss Joanna Baillie , may be strictly called , after the full exhibitions in Moore's Life of Byron and Lockhart's Life of Scott . I have violated no ...
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... persons , with two " intilligent lads " ( as the proprietor of the equi- pages assured us ) for drivers . François has a seat on the box , and we have sent our luggage to Lon- don , so that we are as unencumbered as if we were out for ...
... persons , with two " intilligent lads " ( as the proprietor of the equi- pages assured us ) for drivers . François has a seat on the box , and we have sent our luggage to Lon- don , so that we are as unencumbered as if we were out for ...
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... persons very impertinent . But I have nev- er found inquiries , softened with a certain tone of sympathy , repulsed . Your inferiors in condition are much like children , and they , you know , like dogs , are proverbially said to know ...
... persons very impertinent . But I have nev- er found inquiries , softened with a certain tone of sympathy , repulsed . Your inferiors in condition are much like children , and they , you know , like dogs , are proverbially said to know ...
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... person . Even the three or four beggars who stealthily asked charity of us at Portsmouth were neatly dressed . I greeted , en passant , a woman sitting at her cot- tage window . She told me she paid for half of a little tenement and a ...
... person . Even the three or four beggars who stealthily asked charity of us at Portsmouth were neatly dressed . I greeted , en passant , a woman sitting at her cot- tage window . She told me she paid for half of a little tenement and a ...
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... person ( one gentleman and five ladies ) was a trifle more than two pounds twelve shillings ( thirteen dollars ) a week . Every article of food was perfect of its kind , and well served . The most fastidious could have found no ground ...
... person ( one gentleman and five ladies ) was a trifle more than two pounds twelve shillings ( thirteen dollars ) a week . Every article of food was perfect of its kind , and well served . The most fastidious could have found no ground ...
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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.