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... nature , and shall pro vide for my safety accordingly . Here comes that bright apparition once more ! By all that is heavenly , it is worth a pil- grimage , barefoot , round the world , only to catch a glimpse of her departing steps ...
... nature , and shall pro vide for my safety accordingly . Here comes that bright apparition once more ! By all that is heavenly , it is worth a pil- grimage , barefoot , round the world , only to catch a glimpse of her departing steps ...
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... but he was not pre- pared for so much information , reflection , and originality of thought . A natural love of reading , joined to the important advantage of having lived in the best society from 50 THE RECLUSE OF NORWAY .
... but he was not pre- pared for so much information , reflection , and originality of thought . A natural love of reading , joined to the important advantage of having lived in the best society from 50 THE RECLUSE OF NORWAY .
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... natural to him , enabled him to discover the minutest of those usages that are almost mechanical in good company tact and taste gave him the finest polish of politeness ; of that superior politeness 54 THE RECLUSE OF Norway .
... natural to him , enabled him to discover the minutest of those usages that are almost mechanical in good company tact and taste gave him the finest polish of politeness ; of that superior politeness 54 THE RECLUSE OF Norway .
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... nature , she neither exulted in the idea , nor courted opportunities of seeing it proved . Her crowd of admirers were more frequently re- fused admittance than welcomed during her morning avocations . This indifference to admiration ...
... nature , she neither exulted in the idea , nor courted opportunities of seeing it proved . Her crowd of admirers were more frequently re- fused admittance than welcomed during her morning avocations . This indifference to admiration ...
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... nature's brag , and should be seen At pomps , and feasts , and high folemnities ; It is for homely features to keep home ; They had their name thence . " Theodore respected her for this disregard of personal homage ; yet he could not ...
... nature's brag , and should be seen At pomps , and feasts , and high folemnities ; It is for homely features to keep home ; They had their name thence . " Theodore respected her for this disregard of personal homage ; yet he could not ...
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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.