Child-life and Girlhood of Remarkable Women: A Series of Chapters from Female BiographyW. Swann Sonnenschein, 1883 - 350 Seiten |
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... , Where the brook and river meet , Womanhood and childhood fleet ! * " Woman's Work and Worth , " p . 9c . † LONGFELLOW , Miscellaneous Poems : " Maidenhood . " " Gazing , with a timid glance , On the ΙΟ CHILD - LIFE OF REMARKABLE WOMEN .
... , Where the brook and river meet , Womanhood and childhood fleet ! * " Woman's Work and Worth , " p . 9c . † LONGFELLOW , Miscellaneous Poems : " Maidenhood . " " Gazing , with a timid glance , On the ΙΟ CHILD - LIFE OF REMARKABLE WOMEN .
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... childhood she was only twice treated with any degree of tenderness : once when her parents were moved out of their ordinary indifference by her sufferings from earache ; once when a kindly - natured lady took pity upon her alarm at a ...
... childhood she was only twice treated with any degree of tenderness : once when her parents were moved out of their ordinary indifference by her sufferings from earache ; once when a kindly - natured lady took pity upon her alarm at a ...
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... childhood that she knelt before her Lord , — not as one conscious of sin and imploring forgiveness ; but rather with all the pride of a sceptical intellect , and as one who refused to believe whatever that intellect dismissed as ...
... childhood that she knelt before her Lord , — not as one conscious of sin and imploring forgiveness ; but rather with all the pride of a sceptical intellect , and as one who refused to believe whatever that intellect dismissed as ...
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... childhood had not given way under the genial influence of her father's drawing - room con- versations . She was as practical , as prudent , as matter- of - fact at fifteen as she had been at ten , -to which early age belongs the ...
... childhood had not given way under the genial influence of her father's drawing - room con- versations . She was as practical , as prudent , as matter- of - fact at fifteen as she had been at ten , -to which early age belongs the ...
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... childhood . From Hartshead Mr. Brontë was preferred to a small living at Thornton , which in due time became the birthplace of Charlotte , her brother Patrick , and her sisters Emily and Anne . From the birth of the latter , Mrs. Brontë ...
... childhood . From Hartshead Mr. Brontë was preferred to a small living at Thornton , which in due time became the birthplace of Charlotte , her brother Patrick , and her sisters Emily and Anne . From the birth of the latter , Mrs. Brontë ...
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Seite 134 - I wist all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas ! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Seite 187 - Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At ev'ry word a reputation dies. Snuff, or the fan, supply each pause of chat, With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that...
Seite 135 - I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly, as God made the world; or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea presently sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways (which I will not name for the honour I bear them) so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.
Seite 159 - Underneath this sable hearse Lies the subject of all verse: Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother. Death, ere thou hast slain another Fair and learn'd and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Seite 166 - There were hills which garnished their proud heights with stately trees : humble valleys whose base estate seemed comforted with the refreshing of silver rivers ; meadows enamelled with all sorts of eye-pleasing flowers ; thickets, which being lined with most pleasant shade were witnessed so to, by the cheerful disposition of many well-tuned birds ; each pasture stored with sheep feeding with sober security, while the pretty lambs with bleating oratory craved the...
Seite 144 - I pray you all, good Christian people, to bear me witness that I die a true Christian woman, and that I...
Seite 133 - Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Seite 59 - Our Fellows, July, 1827; Islanders, December, 1827. These are our three great plays, that are not kept secret. Emily's and my best plays were established the ist of December, 1827; the 'others March, 1828. Best plays mean secret plays; they are very nice ones. All our plays are very strange ones. Their nature I need not write on paper, for I think I shall always remember them. The Young Men's...
Seite 306 - Like glories, move his course, and show That life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing tears, And batter'd with the shocks of doom To shape and use.
Seite 59 - Leeds; when Papa came home it was night, and we were in bed, so next morning Branwell came to our door with a box of soldiers. Emily and I jumped out of bed, and I snatched up one and exclaimed, 'This is the Duke of Wellington! This shall be the Duke!