Timethrift; or, All hours turned to good account, conducted by mrs. WarrenMrs. Warren (Eliza) 1751 |
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... mother anticipated her wants and soothed her little cares ; when brothers and sisters grew from merry playmates into loving , trustful friends ; from the Christmas gatherings and romps , the summer festivals in bower or garden ; from ...
... mother anticipated her wants and soothed her little cares ; when brothers and sisters grew from merry playmates into loving , trustful friends ; from the Christmas gatherings and romps , the summer festivals in bower or garden ; from ...
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... mother had risen from her the finest views in Lynmouth were treasured favourite easy chair , as if she too felt some in their memories . Then followed several interest in the little nothings of life . " Dear gloomy days , during which ...
... mother had risen from her the finest views in Lynmouth were treasured favourite easy chair , as if she too felt some in their memories . Then followed several interest in the little nothings of life . " Dear gloomy days , during which ...
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... mother were alike highly pleased with him . Mary was not quite sure that she liked him ; and yet his brilliant conversation dazzled her far more than her sister , because she had read enough and re- flected enough to be able to see the ...
... mother were alike highly pleased with him . Mary was not quite sure that she liked him ; and yet his brilliant conversation dazzled her far more than her sister , because she had read enough and re- flected enough to be able to see the ...
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... mother - and then ing beauty - from the free flow of thought - to they went on to Clovelly . After a short the monotonous drudgery of school . " I hope rest from the fatigue of the journey , the you will come and see us , Arnold ...
... mother - and then ing beauty - from the free flow of thought - to they went on to Clovelly . After a short the monotonous drudgery of school . " I hope rest from the fatigue of the journey , the you will come and see us , Arnold ...
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... mother , " and closed his eyes in death , that strength in a moment forsook her . She gave one shriek , which they who heard it can never forget ; and then , unconscious of her loss , was borne exhausted to bed , after a ceaseless watch ...
... mother , " and closed his eyes in death , that strength in a moment forsook her . She gave one shriek , which they who heard it can never forget ; and then , unconscious of her loss , was borne exhausted to bed , after a ceaseless watch ...
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Page 19 - But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
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Page 21 - I am, and none else beside me ; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children :" but these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children...
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Page 41 - Puschman's song, As the old man gray and dove-like, with his great beard white and long. And at night the swart mechanic comes to drown his cark and care, Quaffing ale from pewter tankards, in the master's antique chair. Vanished is the ancient splendor, and before my dreamy eye Wave these mingling shapes and figures, like a faded tapestry.
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Page 21 - That is indeed but little for a man to get, who does best that which so many endeavour to do. There is nothing, I think, in which the power of art is shown so much as in playing on the fiddle. In all other things we can do something at first. Any man will forge a bar of iron, if you give him a hammer ; not so well as a smith, but tolerably. A man will saw a piece of wood, and make a box, though a clumsy one ; but give him a fiddle and a fiddle-stick, and he can do nothing.