Ellen Clifford: Or the Genius of ReformA. Tompkins and B. B. Mussey, 1839 - 142 Seiten |
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... dark and foggy , and the south wind crept chilly and moist through the crevices of an apartment where sat a pale victim of want and disease . She was reclining in a broken arm - chair - her head was supported by a miserable pillow , and ...
... dark and foggy , and the south wind crept chilly and moist through the crevices of an apartment where sat a pale victim of want and disease . She was reclining in a broken arm - chair - her head was supported by a miserable pillow , and ...
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... darkness , my light is out so soon . have not half finished my subject , and it is very interesting . May I not replace it ? ' ' Nay , rest awhile , Ellen . You have studied now till your eyes droop with weariness . Such intense and ...
... darkness , my light is out so soon . have not half finished my subject , and it is very interesting . May I not replace it ? ' ' Nay , rest awhile , Ellen . You have studied now till your eyes droop with weariness . Such intense and ...
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... darkness . Ellen was human enough to feel a slight timidity in ven- turing through this solitary path , but this very weakness added to the virtue of her unconquer- able enterprize . A faint light was glimmering through the windows of ...
... darkness . Ellen was human enough to feel a slight timidity in ven- turing through this solitary path , but this very weakness added to the virtue of her unconquer- able enterprize . A faint light was glimmering through the windows of ...
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... darkness ; and the very habits of the gentle creature's existence , confirmed the fond impression . In the season of flowers , from the dawn to the wane of day , she might be found in the midst of them , twining the sweetest in her hair ...
... darkness ; and the very habits of the gentle creature's existence , confirmed the fond impression . In the season of flowers , from the dawn to the wane of day , she might be found in the midst of them , twining the sweetest in her hair ...
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... dark ones which had shadowed her early years , were breaking away from the bright sky of youth and innocence . Her labors were blessed at home and abroad , her mother had nearly regained her health and spirits , and her father , whose ...
... dark ones which had shadowed her early years , were breaking away from the bright sky of youth and innocence . Her labors were blessed at home and abroad , her mother had nearly regained her health and spirits , and her father , whose ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
anguish ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD appetite arguin arms Aunt Tabby beautiful better bless blind Harris bosom brandy bright brow CHAPTER charity cheek Clement Caldwell creature Dear mamma death declare door duty dwelling earth ELLEN CLIFFORD erly exclaimed eyes faith father fear Felicia Hemans Flora flowers forget friends GENIUS OF REFORM give me money gonal habits hair hand Hannah Adams head heart heart-ache heaven holy hope infre JOANNA BAILLIE ladies laugh leave lips little girl melody mento merating mind misery Miss Clifford Miss Ellen moral Moran mother nature never outrageous fortune pale papa wish money paregoric parents pity poor Kathleen poor Viola Poor woman portunities pray quired replied Savanna smile soft sorrows spirit suffer sweet taste tears tell tender thee thought tone trials virtue voice wake waping wife wild wretch young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 91 - And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.
Seite 112 - Smitten friends Are angels sent on errands full of love ; For us they languish, and for us they die...
Seite 47 - Neebour's fauts and folly! Whase life is like a weel-gaun mill, Supply'd wi' store o' water, The heapet happer's ebbing still, And still the clap plays clatter. Hear me, ye venerable Core, As counsel for poor mortals, That frequent pass douce Wisdom's door, For...
Seite 39 - CHARACTER. 0 born to soothe distress and lighten care, Lively as soft, and innocent as fair! Blest with that sweet simplicity of thought So rarely found, and never to be taught; Of winning speech, endearing, artless, kind, The loveliest pattern of a female mind ; Like some fair spirit from the realms of rest, With all her native heaven within her breast; So pure, so good, she scarce can guess at sin, But thinks the world without like that within ; Such melting tenderness, so fond to bless, Her charity...
Seite 132 - ... flowers. Some chieftain of the forest wove The blushing card'nals o'er her brow, While by thy waves he breathed his love In many a deep and fervent vow. " How oft, along thy verdant shore, I seek to find some lingering trace Of those who made, in days of yore, Thy banks their favorite hunting-place; — Yet vain the search — no trace is found, To tell that ever dusky maid Or warrior chief hath trod the ground, Where now, perchance, their bones are laid. " Upon thy bonny banks, sweet stream,...
Seite 28 - To be, or not to be, that is the question ; Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And, by opposing, end them...
Seite 112 - Like blossom'd trees o'erturn'd by vernal storm, Lovely in death the beauteous ruin lay ; And if in death still lovely, lovelier there, Far lovelier ! pity swells the tide of love.
Seite 132 - Upon thy tall, o'erhanging elms, Gay birds, with blue and golden breasts, Returned in troops from austral realms, Found colonies of grassy nests. They are protected — guileless birds ! For tender guardians dwell around ; And oft, with keen, reproving words, They drive the huntsman from the ground. In olden days the Indian maid , With braided tresses sought thy bowers, And rifled every sunlit glade To wreathe her locks with scarlet flowers. Some chieftain of the forest wove The blushing card'nals...
Seite 131 - ve seen thy silver currents spring From fountains of Castalian dews. A wilder, or more sylvan spot, Ne'er wooed a poet's feet to roam ; Not e'en Calypso's classic grot Would be so fit a fairy's home. The birchen boughs, so interlaced, That scarce the vault of heaven is seen, With pendant vines are wildly graced — An arbor of transcendent green.
Seite 64 - lay field to field ;" " and the harp and the viol, the tahret and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts,