Happy Evenings; Or, The Literary Institution at HomeHoulston & Stoneman, 1851 - 312 Seiten |
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... Jane , they will take refuge in the intricacies of crochet , or the mysteries of knitting and netting , or be lost in the bewildering mazes of Berlin wool ; and if you ask them a question they will say , as if life depended on it , ' Oh ...
... Jane , they will take refuge in the intricacies of crochet , or the mysteries of knitting and netting , or be lost in the bewildering mazes of Berlin wool ; and if you ask them a question they will say , as if life depended on it , ' Oh ...
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... over , to make the evenings cheerful by his conversation ; and for Ellen and Jane , I never found , Etty , that swift fingers made either a slow tongue or a dull brain . " " Ah ! but you forget or slur over all HAPPY EVENINGS . 3.
... over , to make the evenings cheerful by his conversation ; and for Ellen and Jane , I never found , Etty , that swift fingers made either a slow tongue or a dull brain . " " Ah ! but you forget or slur over all HAPPY EVENINGS . 3.
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... Jane's account of her duties as a governess does not make the prospect very inviting . Not that I mind for myself ; I know people actively employed are usually happy , and I've plenty of what you call perversity and other bad names ...
... Jane's account of her duties as a governess does not make the prospect very inviting . Not that I mind for myself ; I know people actively employed are usually happy , and I've plenty of what you call perversity and other bad names ...
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... Jane will stitch as you say , and do many pleasant things beside ; our mother and aunts will forget their disappointment , in their usual occupations of guiding the house , and visiting the poor , ( whose condition at this season of the ...
... Jane will stitch as you say , and do many pleasant things beside ; our mother and aunts will forget their disappointment , in their usual occupations of guiding the house , and visiting the poor , ( whose condition at this season of the ...
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... Jane , the orphan daughter of a deceased friend , without any other remune- ration than her grateful love , and the luxury of the kindly deed . Nearly two years previously to the commencement of our narrative , the Anglo - Indian pupils ...
... Jane , the orphan daughter of a deceased friend , without any other remune- ration than her grateful love , and the luxury of the kindly deed . Nearly two years previously to the commencement of our narrative , the Anglo - Indian pupils ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
affection appeared aunt Author beauty believe called certainly character child Christian cloth conversation course daughter dear death devotional ditto Edward Ellen English equally Etty evil excellence eyes father feel felt female followed gentle gifted girl give given grace hand happy heard heart hope human influence interest Jane kind lady learned less letter light living look manners Mary means mind moral mother nature never once opinion passed perhaps persons Philip poet poor prejudice present principles question reason remark replied Scripture seemed sister society soon soul spirit strong sure sweet temper thee thing thought tion true truth Vernon voice wife woman women wonder writers young youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 121 - Virtue could see to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk.
Seite 30 - O Lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live: Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud! And would we aught behold of higher worth, Than that inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd, Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth, Of all sweet sounds the life and element!
Seite 128 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food, For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Seite 191 - You have chosen me, from a low estate, to be your queen and companion, far beyond my desert or desire. If then you found me worthy of such honour, good your grace let not any light fancy, or bad counsel of mine enemies, withdraw...
Seite 128 - ... records, promises as sweet ; A Creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food ; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles And now I see with eye serene The very pulse of the machine ; A Being breathing thoughtful breath, A traveller between life and death ; The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill ; A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a Spirit still, and bright...
Seite 184 - For woman is not undevelopt man But diverse: could we make her as the man, Sweet love were slain : his dearest bond is this Not like to like, but like in difference. Yet in the long years liker must they grow ; The man be more of woman, she of man ; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world ; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care, Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind; Till at the last she set herself to man, Like perfect music unto noble...
Seite 121 - What might this be? A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses.
Seite 122 - So dear to Heaven is saintly Chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
Seite 128 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
Seite 127 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!