The little wifeGeorge Routledge & Company, 1851 - 247 pages |
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accueil admiration affection agitated Alice amusement appearance attractions beautiful blessed Bob Short breath bright carriage certainly CHAPTER character charm cheeks childish colour continued cottage countenance Countess dear dearest delight Earl Edward Bruce Elmsdale's endeavoured exclaimed eyes fair fair lady fancy father fear feelings felt fixed folly gaze girl glance hand happiness head heart Heaven Herbert HERMAN MELVILLE heroine honour hope husband idea imagination interest Italian J. F. COOPER JANE AUSTEN kind knew Lady Elmsdale laugh light little wife looked Lord Elmsdale luxurious M'INTOSH manner Marchesa mind morning Naples nature never Nina once painful pale perfect perhaps pleasure poor possessed present racter Reginald remember rendered scarcely scene Scott effected seemed SENSE AND SENSIBILITY smile SOHO SQUARE sorrow soul spirit Stanley surprised sweet taste tears tell thought tion tone truly voice watched whilst wish woman words young youth
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Page 82 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild: then silent night, With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train...
Page 72 - Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give ; And in the light of truth thy Bondman let me live!
Page 115 - Swifter than the moon's sphere ; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners be: In their gold coats spots you see ; Those be rubies, fairy favours, In those freckles live their savours. I must go seek some dewdrops here, And...
Page 82 - With thee conversing, I forget all time; All seasons, and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of Morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds : pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower...
Page 82 - But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds; nor rising sun On this delightful land; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers; Nor grateful evening mild; nor silent night With this her solemn bird; nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.
Page 69 - Welcome, ye shades ! ye bowery thickets, hail ! Ye lofty pines ! ye venerable oaks ! Ye ashes wild, resounding o'er the steep ! Delicious is your shelter to the soul, As to the hunted hart the sallying spring...
Page 90 - I know that all the muse's heavenly lays, With toil of sprite which are so dearly bought, As idle sounds, of few or none are sought, That there is nothing lighter than mere praise.
Page 136 - And dear to me the winged hour, Spent in thy hallow'd courts, O Lord ! To feel devotion's soothing power, And catch the manna of thy word. And dear to me the loud Amen...
Page 170 - Then gay ideas crowd the vacant brain, While peers and dukes, and all their sweeping train, And garters, stars, and coronets appear, And in soft sounds "Your grace