The Literary souvenir; or, Cabinet of poetry and romance, ed. by A.A. WattsAlaric Alexander Watts 1831 |
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... mother.” Jeremy arranged the letters in the first two words and made them into one: MOTHER DID NOT PAPOVER “Papover,” Allie muttered. “Mother did not...? Mother did not...approve!” “Yes!” Jeremy said, jumping up and down like a child ...
... mother.” Jeremy arranged the letters in the first two words and made them into one: MOTHER DID NOT PAPOVER “Papover,” Allie muttered. “Mother did not...? Mother did not...approve!” “Yes!” Jeremy said, jumping up and down like a child ...
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Emily Clark. could not persuade you to marry him unknown to your father and mother , This he once importuned you to do , and finding he cannot succeed in his plans , wishes to disgust you , and oblige my mother and you to leave his house ...
Emily Clark. could not persuade you to marry him unknown to your father and mother , This he once importuned you to do , and finding he cannot succeed in his plans , wishes to disgust you , and oblige my mother and you to leave his house ...
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... mother by her first name instead of Mama, and Chiqui had done the same. “She was in her own hell. Who knows what happened in the detention center?” “At least she had lights, a bed, regular meals, something normal. Hope.” “We have that ...
... mother by her first name instead of Mama, and Chiqui had done the same. “She was in her own hell. Who knows what happened in the detention center?” “At least she had lights, a bed, regular meals, something normal. Hope.” “We have that ...
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... mother's death ? It's strange because this is the only dream that I can remember ever dreaming three times , and it ... mother . " Mother , how are you doing ? ” " I'm fine , Polly . Is everything all right with you ? " " Yes . I just ...
... mother's death ? It's strange because this is the only dream that I can remember ever dreaming three times , and it ... mother . " Mother , how are you doing ? ” " I'm fine , Polly . Is everything all right with you ? " " Yes . I just ...
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... mother came from shiksa stock: a German-Irish Catholic mother, Marilou Pohl, and an English Protestant father, Harrison LeGrande Goodspeed, Jr. Her parents met at a tennis match as teenagers growing up in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Things ...
... mother came from shiksa stock: a German-Irish Catholic mother, Marilou Pohl, and an English Protestant father, Harrison LeGrande Goodspeed, Jr. Her parents met at a tennis match as teenagers growing up in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Things ...
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Page 114 - She smiled on many just for fun — I knew that there was nothing in it ; I was the first, the only one Her heart had thought of for a minute ; I knew it, for she told me so, In phrase which was divinely moulded; She wrote a charming hand, and oh ! How sweetly all her notes were folded ! Our love was like most other loves — A little glow, a little shiver ; A rosebud and a pair of gloves, And
Page 115 - — upon the river ; Some jealousy of some one's heir, Some hopes of dying broken-hearted, A miniature, a lock of hair, The usual vows, — and then we parted. We parted ; months and years rolled by ; We met again four summers after : Our parting was all sob and sigh ; Our meeting was all mirth and laughter: For in my heart's most secret cell There had been many other lodgers ; And she was not the ball-room's Belle, But only — Mrs. Something Rogers...
Page 115 - Our love was like most other loves, — A little glow, a little shiver, A rosebud and a pair of gloves, And "Fly Not Yet," upon the river; Some jealousy of some one's heir, Some hopes of dying broken-hearted; A miniature, a lock of hair, The usual vows, — and then we parted.
Page 112 - Heaven, her dancing ! Dark was her hair, her hand was white ; Her voice was exquisitely tender; Her eyes were full of liquid light ; I never saw a waist so slender! Her every look, her every smile, Shot right and left a score of arrows ; I thought 't was Venus from her isle, And wondered where she'd left her sparrows.
Page 112 - Little. Through sunny May, through sultry June, I loved her with a love eternal ; I spoke her praises to the moon, I wrote them to the Sunday Journal.
Page 113 - She sketched ; the vale, the wood, the beach, Grew lovelier from her pencil's shading : She botanized; I envied each Young blossom in her boudoir fading : She warbled Handel ; it was grand ; She made the Catalani jealous : She touched the organ; I could stand For hours and hours to blow the bellows.
Page 113 - Whose colour was extremely hectic; Her grandmother for many a year Had fed the parish with her bounty; Her second cousin was a peer, And lord lieutenant of the county.
Page 111 - Heaven ! her dancing ! Dark was her hair ; her hand was white ; Her voice was exquisitely tender ; Her eyes were full of liquid light ; I never saw a waist so slender. Her every look, her every smile...
Page 111 - Were in my fowling-piece and filly; In short, while I was yet a boy, I fell in love with Laura Lilly. I saw her at the County Ball; There, when the sounds of flute and fiddle Gave signal sweet in that old hall Of hands across and...
Page 177 - My Highland lassie was a warm-hearted, charming young creature as ever blessed a man with generous love. After a pretty long tract of the most ardent reciprocal attachment, we met by appointment, on the second Sunday of May, in a sequestered spot by the Banks of Ayr, where we spent the day in taking a farewell, before she should embark for the West Highlands, to arrange matters among her friends for our projected change of life.