Katharine Ashton, Volumes 1-2D. Appleton and Company, 1854 |
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Page 33 - Alas ! the noted phrase of the Prayer-book, Doing our duty in that state of life to which God has called us, Seems to me always to mean, when the little rich boys say it, Standing in velvet frock by...
Page 276 - And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.
Page 21 - Oh yes, speak up," said John, a little sulkily. Katharine still hesitated. " Well, if I must — I dare say I don't know much about such things, — but it seems to me that if people want to be farmers, they should know something about farming;" and again Katharine's smile was a very little satirical. " They can learn, I suppose,
Page 2 - The great moral lesson indicated by the title-page of this book runs, as a golden thread, through every part of it, while the reader is constantly kept in contact with the workings of an inventive and brilliant mind.'
Page 32 - I believe," said Mrs. Sinclair, " but they are so fanciful, they do not like to be interfered with ; and they are always taking offence, thinking that some slight is intended. It must be very difficult to know what to do with them.
Page 2 - Mrs. Clarke has given us one of the most delightful novels we have read for many a day, and one which is destined, we doubt not, to be much longer lived than the majority of books of its class. Its chief beauties are a certain freshness in the style in which the inddents are presented to us — a healthful tone pervading it — a completeness in most of the characters — and a truthful power in the descriptions.
Page 32 - Nothing very valuable, I am afraid," said Mrs. Sinclair, " according to Mr. Reeve's account of the Sunday dress." "Yes; that is surprising, certainly," observed Jane ; " I remember now, I did see one of them last Sunday, as we were going to church — Selina Fowler — and such a gay bonnet she had ! flowers outside and inside ! I knew her directly, because she was so exactly what she was at school ; but they were not all like her, mamma. There were some very sensible right-thinking girls ; I dare...
Page 2 - The scene of the book is village life amongst the upper class, with village episodes, which seem to have been sketched from the life — there is a primitive simplicity and greatness of heart about some of the characters which keep up the sympathy and interest to the end.