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... young - lady - like was her conduct on the occasion ! When the day arrived , Lucretia was found reading , as usual , without one thought about the ball , and it was only when asked what she was to wear , that she remembered she had to ...
... young - lady - like was her conduct on the occasion ! When the day arrived , Lucretia was found reading , as usual , without one thought about the ball , and it was only when asked what she was to wear , that she remembered she had to ...
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... young ladies , and not always unattended with injurious effects on health . The following playful verses of our heroine describe the troubles of the week preceding this grand exhibition : - ' One has a headache , one a cold , One has ...
... young ladies , and not always unattended with injurious effects on health . The following playful verses of our heroine describe the troubles of the week preceding this grand exhibition : - ' One has a headache , one a cold , One has ...
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... young girl , apparently not more than eleven years of age , moving quietly about her ; occasionally arranging a pillow , and at the same time listening earnestly to our conversation . There was an intellectual beauty about this child ...
... young girl , apparently not more than eleven years of age , moving quietly about her ; occasionally arranging a pillow , and at the same time listening earnestly to our conversation . There was an intellectual beauty about this child ...
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... young persons . ESCAPE OF BRITISH OFFICERS FROM FRANCE . BY PASCOE GRENFELL HILL , R. N. In the beginning of the year 1850 , during a short stay at Brussels , I had the pleasure of forming an acquaintance with a veteran officer ...
... young persons . ESCAPE OF BRITISH OFFICERS FROM FRANCE . BY PASCOE GRENFELL HILL , R. N. In the beginning of the year 1850 , during a short stay at Brussels , I had the pleasure of forming an acquaintance with a veteran officer ...
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... young Chantrey , who would never call his mother by her new name . To get rid of the youth , he was placed as a shopboy with a grocer in Sheffield ; but disliking this profession , he was , after a few weeks , removed from behind the ...
... young Chantrey , who would never call his mother by her new name . To get rid of the youth , he was placed as a shopboy with a grocer in Sheffield ; but disliking this profession , he was , after a few weeks , removed from behind the ...
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afterwards Ahmednuggur amongst animal appeared beautiful became Bellarmine Ben Lomond brought Bruntfield Cæsar called Captain cave Chantrey child Chillingham circumstances clarichord course daughter death Denbigh Earl Earl of Stirling Edinburgh endeavour entered escape eyes father favour feelings feet felt fortune gave gentleman George Dale girl give Glenaladale Glenmorriston hand head heard heart honour hope husband kind knew lady Lavalette length lived Llyr look Lord Mowbray Lucy Major Eastlake Malloch manner Margaret Davidson matter miles mind morning mother never night once Paget party passed Patrick Grant perhaps person poor possession present Prince Rajeb received remarkable respect returned Rhoda round Rowardennan scene Scotland seemed seen servant shew soon Stirling Tardy thing thought tion Tom Davis took Troelle walk Wandering Jew whole wife wish young
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Página 8 - Away! away! for I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, But on the viewless wings of Poesy, Though the dull brain perplexes and retards: Already with thee! tender is the night, And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne, Clustered around by all her starry Fays; But here there is no light, Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways.
Página 6 - Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast, As down she knelt for Heaven's grace and boon; Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory, like a saint...
Página 8 - I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But,' in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet Wherewith the seasonable month endows The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild...
Página 9 - Forlorn ! the very word is like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self ! Adieu ! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is famed to do, deceiving elf. Adieu ! adieu ! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley-glades : Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music: — do I wake or sleep?
Página 7 - MY HEART aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk...
Página 7 - Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair; Forest on forest hung about his head Like cloud on cloud. No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest.
Página 8 - O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth ; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim...
Página 6 - Of fruits, and flowers, and bunches of knot-grass, And diamonded with panes of quaint device, Innumerable of stains and splendid dyes, As are the tiger-moth's deep-damask'd wings; And in the midst, 'mong thousand heraldries, And twilight saints, and dim emblazonings, A shielded scutcheon blush'd with blood of queens and kings.
Página 9 - ... they are flushed all over with the rich lights of fancy; and so coloured and bestrewn with the flowers of poetry, that even while perplexed and bewildered in their labyrinths, it is impossible to resist the intoxication of their sweetness, or to shut our hearts to the enchantments they so lavishly present.
Página 8 - Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret...