I Will be a Lady: a Book for Girls

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Perkinpine & Higgins, 1848 - 167 páginas

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Página 130 - IX. 0 how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of heaven, O how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! X.
Página 2 - GOD might have made the earth bring forth Enough for great and small, The oak-tree and the cedar-tree, Without a flower at all.
Página 46 - Oh, wad some power the giftie gi'e us To see oursel's as others see us...
Página 86 - They love their land, because it is their own, And scorn to give aught other reason why ; Would shake hands with a king upon his throne. And think it kindness to his majesty : A stubborn race, fearing and flattering none.
Página 60 - Vital spark of heavenly flame, Quit, O quit, this mortal frame.
Página 27 - ... candles ; eyes, blue as glass beads, staring right at you ; neck, long and thin ; nose, just enough of it to be called a nose; mouth, good enough for every purpose ; ears, large and white. " There, now, you have Harriet Ann. She looks in the glass forty times a day to practise that amazing courtesy, and tumbles over on her face almost as often, trying to stand with her toes turned straight out.

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