Sketches of Married LifeHilliard Gray, and Company, 1838 - 304 páginas |
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... kind and well broke ? " " I tell no lies , Ruth , not even when I sell a horse . Robinette is as steady as a parson , and he's a lump of good nature . But now do tell me if you don't want him for Miss Amy ? " " We two can keep a secret ...
... kind and well broke ? " " I tell no lies , Ruth , not even when I sell a horse . Robinette is as steady as a parson , and he's a lump of good nature . But now do tell me if you don't want him for Miss Amy ? " " We two can keep a secret ...
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... a lecture , followed , I suppose , by some of those agreeable didactic remarks , which most of my kind friends are pleased so gratu- itously to bestow upon me . " " Are you not ashamed of such nonsense , Fanny MARRIED LIFE . 35.
... a lecture , followed , I suppose , by some of those agreeable didactic remarks , which most of my kind friends are pleased so gratu- itously to bestow upon me . " " Are you not ashamed of such nonsense , Fanny MARRIED LIFE . 35.
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... kind , and there is always ground for suspicion that what we hide we are ashamed of ; surely you cannot be ashamed of return- ing the love of such a man as William Roberts . If I could think you in earnest when you say you wanted to ...
... kind , and there is always ground for suspicion that what we hide we are ashamed of ; surely you cannot be ashamed of return- ing the love of such a man as William Roberts . If I could think you in earnest when you say you wanted to ...
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... value her own honest thought even as much as we value it . She is , in the main , kind - hearted , and would be good , if she only had the courage to be SO . " " It is all worldly - mindedness and ambition . MARRIED LIFE . 51.
... value her own honest thought even as much as we value it . She is , in the main , kind - hearted , and would be good , if she only had the courage to be SO . " " It is all worldly - mindedness and ambition . MARRIED LIFE . 51.
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... kind ; but , worse than all , when the rich Miss Reed's number was called , she came up , laughing , and these words were heard all through the room : ' Although his words are sweet as honey , His heart is fixed upon your money ...
... kind ; but , worse than all , when the rich Miss Reed's number was called , she came up , laughing , and these words were heard all through the room : ' Although his words are sweet as honey , His heart is fixed upon your money ...
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Amy's answer asked baby bear beau ideal beautiful better blessing Boston called calm champaign child daugh dear Amy dear Fanny dear father doctor duty Edward and Amy eyes face faithful father fault fear feel felt forgive friends give glad green islands hand happy Hawkins hear heard heart hope horse husband Jerry knew lady laugh leave live look Lovell lover ma'am manner marriage mind misery Miss Amy morning mother never opinion pain party passed perfectly perhaps pity pleasure poor promise quiet replied Amy replied Fanny rich Roberts Robinette Ruth seemed Selmar silent SKETCHES OF MARRIED soon sorrow sorry soul speak spirit strange suffer suppose sure talk tears tell thing thought tion told trifle true trust truth Weston wife Willy wisest and best wish woman words wrong
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Página 63 - Possessions vanish, and opinions change, And Passions hold a fluctuating seat: But, by the storms of circumstance unshaken, And subject neither to eclipse nor wane, Duty exists; — immutably survive, For our support, the measures and the forms, Which an abstract Intelligence supplies; Whose kingdom is, where Time and Space are not...
Página 130 - Hey, my kitten, hey, my kitten, And hey, my kitten, my deary ! Such a sweet pet as this Was neither far nor neary. Here we go up, up, up, And here we go down, down, down, And here we go backwards and forwards, And here we go round, round, roundy.
Página 151 - The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.
Página 137 - To come and go with tidings from the heart, As it a running messenger had been.
Página 75 - Extends her liberal hand to all. " By Sympathy's untutor'd voice Be taught her social laws to keep ; Rejoice with them that do rejoice, And weep with them that weep. " The heart that bleeds for others' woes, Shall feel each selfish sorrow less ; His breast who happiness bestows, Reflected happiness shall bless.
Página 296 - The wind was hushed, And to the beach, each slowly lifted wave, Creeping with silver curl, just kissed the shore, And slept in silence.
Página 145 - The cloud doth gather, the greenwood roar, The damsel paces along the shore ; The billows they tumble with might, with might; And she flings out her voice to the darksome night ; Her bosom is swelling with sorrow ; The world it is empty, the heart will die, There's nothing to wish for beneath the sky : Thou Holy One, call thy child away ! I've lived and loved, and that was to-day — Make ready my grave-clothes to-morrow...
Página 199 - gird up the loins" of our affection. It will not be child's play, but he who wants a religion of child's play must not seek the companionship of Christ. The Master spake of cutting off the right hand and plucking out the right eye, and the bleeding figure has reference to the severing of relationships and the disentangling of well-established affections.
Página 297 - Thou hadst no home, green land ! For the fair creature from her bosom gone, With life's first flowers just opening in her hand, And all the lovely thoughts and dreams unknown, Which in its clear eye shone Like the spring's wakening...