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... woman who appeared to show me the premises , and kept my countenance in spite of my tittering followers , while we were shown through a dining - room , drawing- room , two kitchens , and five bedrooms , all small , and furnished with ...
... woman who appeared to show me the premises , and kept my countenance in spite of my tittering followers , while we were shown through a dining - room , drawing- room , two kitchens , and five bedrooms , all small , and furnished with ...
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... woman came forth from a cottage to unlock a gate through which we must pass to go up the Chine . K. says the beauties of Nature are as jeal- ously locked up here as the beauties of a harem . It is the old truth , necessity teaches ...
... woman came forth from a cottage to unlock a gate through which we must pass to go up the Chine . K. says the beauties of Nature are as jeal- ously locked up here as the beauties of a harem . It is the old truth , necessity teaches ...
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... woman had nine children ; six at home , and all tidily dressed . I have not seen in England a slovenly - looking person . Even the three or four beggars who stealthily asked charity of us at Portsmouth were neatly dressed . I greeted ...
... woman had nine children ; six at home , and all tidily dressed . I have not seen in England a slovenly - looking person . Even the three or four beggars who stealthily asked charity of us at Portsmouth were neatly dressed . I greeted ...
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... woman whom I met coming out of a farmyard , staggering under a load of dry furze , as much as could be piled on a wheelbarrow . A boy not more than five years old was awaiting her at the gate , with a compact little parcel in his arms ...
... woman whom I met coming out of a farmyard , staggering under a load of dry furze , as much as could be piled on a wheelbarrow . A boy not more than five years old was awaiting her at the gate , with a compact little parcel in his arms ...
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... woman in the maturity of her powers and charms , somewhat idealized , perhaps , as if the painter were infected by Mrs. ' s enthusi- asm , and to the fondness of a friend added the de- votion of a worshipper . It is Mrs. Siddons ; not a ...
... woman in the maturity of her powers and charms , somewhat idealized , perhaps , as if the painter were infected by Mrs. ' s enthusi- asm , and to the fondness of a friend added the de- votion of a worshipper . It is Mrs. Siddons ; not a ...
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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.