The Young Lady's HomeW. J. Reynolds, 1847 - 332 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
admiration Agnes Alfred Alice attention Aunt beautiful benevolence blessed Bulah called Calphurnia CHAPTER character cheerfulness Christian Clara conversation daugh daughter dear delight dress duty elegant Elizabeth Carter endeavour exclaimed eyes fashion father fear feel Fleming flower genius gentle George George Stanley Geraldine girl give glory grace habits happiness heart holy honor hope hour human imagination influence Irene Isabella Julius Cæsar kind knowledge lawyer's wife lence look Madame de Staël manner Maria Agnesi marriage memory Mephistopheles mind misanthropy Molière moral morning mother nature ness never Nurse Pearson perfect pleasure poor prejudices pride principles reign religion render ridiculous Roman republic Saratoga says sensibility servants sister smile society spirit splendid Stanley striped bass sweet taste tears thing thou thought tion truth Voltaire walked Wilton woman women words young lady
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Seite 289 - The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains. — Beautiful! I linger yet with Nature, for the night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man ; and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness, I learn'd the language of another world.
Seite 185 - When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother ; Woman, behold thy son ! Then saith he to the disciple ; Behold thy Mother ! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own iiome.
Seite 49 - Each flower of slender stalk, whose head, though gay Carnation, purple, azure, or specked with gold, Hung drooping unsustained; them she upstays Gently with myrtle band, mindless the while Herself, though fairest unsupported flower, From her best prop so far, and storm so nigh.
Seite 189 - Things vulgar and, well weighed, scarce worth the praise? They praise, and they admire they know not what. And know not whom, but as one leads the other...
Seite 277 - O 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...
Seite 311 - A something, light as air — a look, A word unkind or wrongly taken — Oh! love, that tempests never shook, A breath, a touch like this hath shaken.
Seite 269 - ... life, knowledge of good and evil ? Of good, how just ? of evil, if what is evil Be real, why not known, since easier...
Seite 164 - He that questioneth much, shall learn much, and content much; but especially if he apply his questions to the skill of the persons whom he asketh: for he shall give them occasion to please themselves in speaking, and himself shall continually gather knowledge. But let his questions not be troublesome; for that is fit for a poser.
Seite 194 - The chariest maid is prodigal enough, If she unmask her beauty to the moon : Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes : The canker galls the infants of the spring, Too oft before their buttons be disclosed ; And in the morn and liquid dew of youth Contagious blastments are most imminent.
Seite 187 - Each in his hidden sphere of joy or woe Our hermit spirits dwell, and range apart, Our eyes see all around in gloom or glow — Hues of their own, fresh borrow'd from the heart.