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... follow in the path of duty . We want them as Girls to be good and true , that they may ripen into good and true Women . To this end may the following pages assist them ! ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS . PREFACE . PAGE iii CHAPTER.
... follow in the path of duty . We want them as Girls to be good and true , that they may ripen into good and true Women . To this end may the following pages assist them ! ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS . PREFACE . PAGE iii CHAPTER.
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... Duty is - Pleasure of Honest Work- Life a Burden to the Inactive - Self - Culture lies in the Girl's own Hands - What Self - Culture implies - Duties to Teachers - To Companions - The Want of Self - Reliance to be guarded against ...
... Duty is - Pleasure of Honest Work- Life a Burden to the Inactive - Self - Culture lies in the Girl's own Hands - What Self - Culture implies - Duties to Teachers - To Companions - The Want of Self - Reliance to be guarded against ...
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... noblest things . ' ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH . Sketch of Anne Baynard's Life - Catharine of Siena - Her Example not to be implicitly followed - A higher Standard of Duty now xvi CONTENTS . expected - Enthusiasm essential to True Nobility.
... noblest things . ' ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH . Sketch of Anne Baynard's Life - Catharine of Siena - Her Example not to be implicitly followed - A higher Standard of Duty now xvi CONTENTS . expected - Enthusiasm essential to True Nobility.
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... duty was ever neglected , and her mother's slightest wish would at all times make her give up her own plans . Long before the party assembled in the breakfast - room , Agnes might be seen returning from the garden laden with flowers ...
... duty was ever neglected , and her mother's slightest wish would at all times make her give up her own plans . Long before the party assembled in the breakfast - room , Agnes might be seen returning from the garden laden with flowers ...
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... ago , these truisms are as applicable now as then . Too often do we hear the complaint that young girls are so wanting in respect and obedience to their parents -- that they so 6 THE LAW OF OBEDIENCE . fail in their duty.
... ago , these truisms are as applicable now as then . Too often do we hear the complaint that young girls are so wanting in respect and obedience to their parents -- that they so 6 THE LAW OF OBEDIENCE . fail in their duty.
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 270 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food : For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Seite 269 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
Seite 251 - To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel...
Seite 216 - DAFFODILS FAIR Daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon : As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song ; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along.
Seite 183 - I were to pray for a taste -which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.
Seite 216 - FAIR Daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon ; As yet the early-rising sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song ; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay, As you, or anything. We die As your hours do, and dry Away, Like to the summer's rain ; Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again.
Seite 118 - Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long.
Seite 89 - All things to man's delightful use. The roof Of thickest covert was inwoven shade, Laurel and myrtle, and what higher grew Of firm and fragrant leaf ; on either side Acanthus, and each odorous bushy shrub, Fenced up the verdant wall ; each beauteous flower, Iris all hues, roses and jessamine, Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought Mosaic ; underfoot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth, with rich inlay Broidered the ground, more coloured than with stone Of costliest emblem : other creature...
Seite 101 - Then the pied windflowers and the tulip tall, And narcissi, the fairest among them all, Who gaze on their eyes in the stream's recess, Till they die of their own dear loveliness...
Seite 227 - To seek thee did I often rove Through woods and on the green; And thou wert still a hope, a love; Still longed for, never seen.