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... kind , I assure you , except a few religious tracts and an old family Bible . Her income scarcely amounted to a straw a - day , and she vegetated through a life of seventy years with scarcely excitement enough to keep her from stag ...
... kind , I assure you , except a few religious tracts and an old family Bible . Her income scarcely amounted to a straw a - day , and she vegetated through a life of seventy years with scarcely excitement enough to keep her from stag ...
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... kind mistress ! How gentle , how liberal , how pious , none but myself can now remember , and none were here to close her eyes but me ! - oh ! it was sad - sad - sad . But she has taken the wings of the morning , and got away to a ...
... kind mistress ! How gentle , how liberal , how pious , none but myself can now remember , and none were here to close her eyes but me ! - oh ! it was sad - sad - sad . But she has taken the wings of the morning , and got away to a ...
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... kind old countenance , his humorous jests , his gold - headed cane with which he pretended to threaten us , the sights he took us to enjoy , the mountain of bon- bons and cakes with which he regaled us , and the perpetual holiday which ...
... kind old countenance , his humorous jests , his gold - headed cane with which he pretended to threaten us , the sights he took us to enjoy , the mountain of bon- bons and cakes with which he regaled us , and the perpetual holiday which ...
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... kind to children . It was my earliest sorrow when we lost Lord Robert , and I yet remember the heart - felt grief with which my father announced his death , and desired us all , while we lived , to remember his kind old uncle with ...
... kind to children . It was my earliest sorrow when we lost Lord Robert , and I yet remember the heart - felt grief with which my father announced his death , and desired us all , while we lived , to remember his kind old uncle with ...
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... that , if any one merely looked as if he wanted any thing , I started off to fetch it ; and , if I could do an act of kind- ness for any of them clandestinely , I was indifferent whether they knew of it or not . I bore JANE BOUVERIE . 47.
... that , if any one merely looked as if he wanted any thing , I started off to fetch it ; and , if I could do an act of kind- ness for any of them clandestinely , I was indifferent whether they knew of it or not . I bore JANE BOUVERIE . 47.
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Page 145 - As a beam o'er the face of the waters may glow, While the tide runs in darkness and coldness below, So the cheek may be tinged with a warm sunny smile, Though the cold heart to ruin runs darkly the while.
Page 272 - Whom the gods love die young' was said of yore, And many deaths do they escape by this: The death of friends, and that which slays even more — The death of friendship, love, youth, all that is, Except mere breath ; and since the silent shore Awaits at last even those who longest miss The old archer's shafts, perhaps the early grave Which men weep over may be meant to save.
Page 37 - Resign the honours of their form at Winter's stormy blast, And leave the naked leafless plain a desolated waste. 8 Yet soon reviving plants and flow'rs anew shall deck the plain ; The woods shall hear the voice of Spring, and flourish green again.
Page 238 - The churchyard bears an added stone, The fireside shows a vacant chair ! Here sadness dwells and weeps alone, And death displays his banner there ; The life has gone, the breath has fled, And what has been no more shall be ; The well-known form, the welcome tread, Oh ! where are they ? and where is he ? HENRY NEELE.
Page 61 - No where by thee my steps shall be, For ever and for ever. But here will sigh thine alder tree, And here thine aspen shiver; And here by thee will hum the bee, For ever and for ever. A thousand suns will stream on thee, A thousand moons will quiver; But not by thee my steps shall be, For ever and for ever.
Page 238 - OFT o'er my brain does that strange fancy roll Which makes the present (while the flash doth last) Seem a mere semblance of some unknown past Mixed with such feelings, as perplex the soul Self-questioned in her sleep ; and some have said We lived, ere yet this robe of flesh we wore.