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... pleasures ; but they were also supplied with whatever new pro- ductions appeared , that were worthy of no- tice ; and with reading , music , work , and conversation , they found that time , even in the country , might pass swiftly and ...
... pleasures ; but they were also supplied with whatever new pro- ductions appeared , that were worthy of no- tice ; and with reading , music , work , and conversation , they found that time , even in the country , might pass swiftly and ...
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... pleasure and approbation . In the afternoon Mr. Herbert preached , and Edmund only read prayers . Who would not have envied the feelings of Mrs. Herbert when she beheld her husband and son , such a son and such a husband ! each filling ...
... pleasure and approbation . In the afternoon Mr. Herbert preached , and Edmund only read prayers . Who would not have envied the feelings of Mrs. Herbert when she beheld her husband and son , such a son and such a husband ! each filling ...
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... the duties of a mother she would have sacrificed the pleasures of the world . But young and lively , neglected by her husband , and admired by others , she sought a solace for disappointed affection in the joys of 54 DUTY .
... the duties of a mother she would have sacrificed the pleasures of the world . But young and lively , neglected by her husband , and admired by others , she sought a solace for disappointed affection in the joys of 54 DUTY .
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... pleasure with health , " she said- " Perhaps , Julia , Ed- mund and Ellen will accompany us . Em- ploy your eloquence to persuade the former , and I will use mine to gain the latter . " The plan was proposed , and readily agreed to . To ...
... pleasure with health , " she said- " Perhaps , Julia , Ed- mund and Ellen will accompany us . Em- ploy your eloquence to persuade the former , and I will use mine to gain the latter . " The plan was proposed , and readily agreed to . To ...
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... pleasure , and those who remained in peaceful security at home , might have ap- peared to a stranger the effusions of sorrow and painful solicitude , instead of the warm and tender ebullitions of the purest and most delightful affection ...
... pleasure , and those who remained in peaceful security at home , might have ap- peared to a stranger the effusions of sorrow and painful solicitude , instead of the warm and tender ebullitions of the purest and most delightful affection ...
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Page 94 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 96 - DAY set on Norham's castled steep. And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep. And Cheviot's mountains lone : The battled towers, the donjon keep, The loop-hole grates where captives weep. The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone.
Page 96 - Whose ponderous grate and massy bar Had oft roll'd back the tide of war, But never closed the iron door Against the desolate and poor. The Duchess...
Page 106 - ... hugged along narrow and precipitous paths, crossed bending bridges, scaled elevated acclivities, penetrated caverns, and finally drenched myself utterly in venturing under the falling sheet of waters. I have seen the cataract in broad sunlight, and again by beautiful moonlight: " If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; " — and so I would have an observer look upon Niagara. The bow of Heaven seems almost perpetually to rest on its face, spanning its white...
Page 114 - Forgive, blest shade, the tributary tear, Which mourns thy exit from a world like this ; Forgive the wish that would have kept thee here, And stay'd thy progress to the realms of bliss.
Page 124 - I am very much obliged to you for the care you have taken of this grave,
Page 97 - Chichelrer, by public fublcription, to the memory of Collins the poet, who was a native of that city, and died in a houfe adjoining to the cloifters. He is reprefented as juft recovered from a wild fit of...