My Daughter's Book: Containing a Selection of Approved Readings in Literature, Science, and Art, Adapted to the Formation of the Character of Woman |
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... lady of quality , is entitled " MY DAUGHTer's Book , " I have but little to offer by way of apology ; feeling that a publication like this should stand or fall upon its own merits . In appealing , however , a second time to the en ...
... lady of quality , is entitled " MY DAUGHTer's Book , " I have but little to offer by way of apology ; feeling that a publication like this should stand or fall upon its own merits . In appealing , however , a second time to the en ...
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... Lady Mary , and Elizabeth Montague , Mary Howitt , & c . , are too well known to require any comment . A modern poet has very poetically painted the silence that reigned in Paradise , ere lovely woman was intro- duced to the first of ...
... Lady Mary , and Elizabeth Montague , Mary Howitt , & c . , are too well known to require any comment . A modern poet has very poetically painted the silence that reigned in Paradise , ere lovely woman was intro- duced to the first of ...
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... LADY JANE GREY . MEEKLY and low she bows her gentle head , While her wrapt soul ascends to God in pray'r– And round her breast , a hallowing calm is spread , For Faith is there ! Faith , pure and strong , which o'er that sinless heart ...
... LADY JANE GREY . MEEKLY and low she bows her gentle head , While her wrapt soul ascends to God in pray'r– And round her breast , a hallowing calm is spread , For Faith is there ! Faith , pure and strong , which o'er that sinless heart ...
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... lady's whenever she wants an excuse for an ill- humour , ) sympathy - eau de Cologne , even eau de vie - are applied in vain ; —the head - ache is obstinate , but the lady will not deprive others of pleasure ; the carriages are ordered ...
... lady's whenever she wants an excuse for an ill- humour , ) sympathy - eau de Cologne , even eau de vie - are applied in vain ; —the head - ache is obstinate , but the lady will not deprive others of pleasure ; the carriages are ordered ...
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... lady's ; the lovers sigh over the past , and the unfortunate sister dreads the future ! Should the weather prove cloudy , the lady - wife is vehement in her regrets that some other day had not been chosen , and becomes poetical in her ...
... lady's ; the lovers sigh over the past , and the unfortunate sister dreads the future ! Should the weather prove cloudy , the lady - wife is vehement in her regrets that some other day had not been chosen , and becomes poetical in her ...
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Page 371 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.
Page 377 - Besides, the childhood of the day has kept, Against you come, some orient pearls unwept; Come and receive them while the light Hangs on the dew-locks of the night: And Titan on the eastern hill Retires himself, or else stands still Till you come forth.
Page 377 - Get up, get up for shame! The blooming morn Upon her wings presents the god unshorn. See how Aurora throws her fair Fresh-quilted colours through the air: Get up, sweet slug-a-bed, and see The dew bespangling herb and tree.
Page 300 - Above them all the arch-angel : but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrenched ; and care Sat on his faded cheek...
Page 363 - ... throw in a semblance of green summer to cheer the fireside: all these bespeak the influence of taste, flowing down from high sources, and pervading the lowest levels of the public mind. If ever Love, as poets sing, delights to visit a cottage, it must be the cottage of an English peasant.
Page 377 - As if here were those cooler shades of love. Can such delights be in the street " And open fields and we not see't ? Come, we'll abroad; and let's obey The proclamation made for May : And sin no more, as we have done, by staying; But, my Corinna, come, let's go a-Maying.
Page 299 - Millions of Spirits for his fault amerced* Of Heaven, and from eternal splendours flung For his revolt; yet faithful how they stood, Their glory withered: as when Heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks, or mountain pines, With singed top their stately growth though bare Stands on the blasted heath.
Page 391 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran Nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain, Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The open field, and where the unpierced shade Imbrown'd the noontide bowers. Thus was this place A happy rural seat of various view...
Page 362 - Nothing can be more imposing than the magnificence of English park scenery. Vast lawns that extend like sheets of vivid green, with here and there clumps of gigantic trees, heaping up rich piles of foliage: the solemn pomp of groves and woodland glades, with the deer trooping in silent herds across them...
Page 443 - Father of light and life, Thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ; teach me Thyself ! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit ; and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure, Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss...