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... delightful as her timidity had been touching . The fair Anastasia preserved the cha- racter he had mentally assigned to her ; a calm , unvaried union of dignity and suavity . She spoke well , but her discourse was neither embellished by ...
... delightful as her timidity had been touching . The fair Anastasia preserved the cha- racter he had mentally assigned to her ; a calm , unvaried union of dignity and suavity . She spoke well , but her discourse was neither embellished by ...
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... delightful sound of her voice , Theodore started round with a graceful glow of surprize . " No , " he said hastily ; then recollecting himself , added , " I mean I am neither a performer nor a judge of it . ” " You draw then ? " was the ...
... delightful sound of her voice , Theodore started round with a graceful glow of surprize . " No , " he said hastily ; then recollecting himself , added , " I mean I am neither a performer nor a judge of it . ” " You draw then ? " was the ...
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... delightful spirits were contagious he was pleased with the cour- teous manners of the Viceroy ; and enter- tained beyond measure with the novelty of that picquant ... delight visible to every one . c 3 THE RECLUSE OF NORWAY . 29 able; ...
... delightful spirits were contagious he was pleased with the cour- teous manners of the Viceroy ; and enter- tained beyond measure with the novelty of that picquant ... delight visible to every one . c 3 THE RECLUSE OF NORWAY . 29 able; ...
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Anna Maria Porter. with an admiration and delight visible to every one . He ceased to speak , that he might listen to his noble friend ; but his countenance discoursed so eloquently , that no one could remember he had not spoken ...
Anna Maria Porter. with an admiration and delight visible to every one . He ceased to speak , that he might listen to his noble friend ; but his countenance discoursed so eloquently , that no one could remember he had not spoken ...
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... delight to puff off the first , and the managing mother's to amplify about the second . Both ladies , of course , set themselves down for miracles in their different branches : so the careful man , who denies himself the beauty for fear ...
... delight to puff off the first , and the managing mother's to amplify about the second . Both ladies , of course , set themselves down for miracles in their different branches : so the careful man , who denies himself the beauty for fear ...
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Aardal admiration Ager-huus agitation agreeable amuse animated answer appeared asked attachment beauty believed blush Catalonia chaprone character charms cheek Chevalier Christiana Colonel Muller colour Condé Roncevalles Copenhagen Coperstad Count Lauven Count Lauvenheilm countenance Countess Anastasia court Danish cabinet daugh daughters dear delight Denmark Dofrestom Don Balthazar's dore elegant Ellesif emotion exclaimed expression eyes father fear feelings Gaston de Roye graceful hand happy hear heard heart heilm Heinreich her's Holstein honour hope imagination indulge interest King knew ladies leaving Theodore letter lived look Madame Sauveur Marquise ment mind ness never noble Norway obliged observed painful party passion person pleasure pray present Prince Princess Ursini racter replied Theodore Roye's seek Señor Guevara sensibility sentiment shew silence sister Sleswick smile soul Spain spoke surprize Sweden sweet tears tell tenderness Theo Theodore felt Theodore saw Theodore's thing thought tion voice wished young
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Page 138 - ON A GIRDLE THAT which her slender waist confined Shall now my joyful temples bind : No monarch but would give his crown His arms might do what this has done. It was my Heaven's extremest sphere, The pale which held that lovely deer : My joy, my grief, my hope, my love Did all within this circle move. A narrow compass ! and yet there Dwelt all that's good, and all that's fair : Give me but what this ribband bound, Take all the rest the Sun goes round.
Page 59 - In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where most may wonder at the workmanship. It is for homely features to keep home; They had their name thence: coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply The sampler, and to tease the huswife's wool.