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... bright needles with delicate speed . I was alone idle , seeming to admire , with earnest attention , the slight firmness of an unfinished purse , intended for me ; though , perhaps , I could not help looking more at the.
... bright needles with delicate speed . I was alone idle , seeming to admire , with earnest attention , the slight firmness of an unfinished purse , intended for me ; though , perhaps , I could not help looking more at the.
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... bright ver- dure beneath . She had seemed a simple girl before : her character now seemed exalted ; -she had been loved ( and respected too ) before ; she was now looked up to as a superior creature . All her actions had something ...
... bright ver- dure beneath . She had seemed a simple girl before : her character now seemed exalted ; -she had been loved ( and respected too ) before ; she was now looked up to as a superior creature . All her actions had something ...
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... bright visions seemed fading ; that they were like the fanciful and glittering formations of frost , he saw them all breaking up with a thaw ; but he was still resigned and deter- mined . One evening his mother entered the room : a ...
... bright visions seemed fading ; that they were like the fanciful and glittering formations of frost , he saw them all breaking up with a thaw ; but he was still resigned and deter- mined . One evening his mother entered the room : a ...
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... virtues lend her . No wreaths her hair confining , No gems her arms entwining , But with eyes more bright Than the sapphire's light , Where love's purest flame is shining . " No , " said Duncan to himself , as A MERCHANT'S SON . 51.
... virtues lend her . No wreaths her hair confining , No gems her arms entwining , But with eyes more bright Than the sapphire's light , Where love's purest flame is shining . " No , " said Duncan to himself , as A MERCHANT'S SON . 51.
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... bright In sad affliction's darksome night : With joy I take this crown of thorn , Tho ' sharp , yet easy to be borne . That heavenly crown , already mine , I view with eyes of faith divine ; I slight vain things , and do embrace Glory ...
... bright In sad affliction's darksome night : With joy I take this crown of thorn , Tho ' sharp , yet easy to be borne . That heavenly crown , already mine , I view with eyes of faith divine ; I slight vain things , and do embrace Glory ...
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