A Record of Ellen WatsonAnna Jane Buckland Macmillan and Company, 1884 - 279 pages |
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... earliest years . Every child is full of interest to all who love little children ; and there are few who do not at that age command admiration as well as love by the sweet innocence natural to childhood , and ... early CHAPTER II CHILDHOOD.
... earliest years . Every child is full of interest to all who love little children ; and there are few who do not at that age command admiration as well as love by the sweet innocence natural to childhood , and ... early CHAPTER II CHILDHOOD.
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... early took that position which she ever held as her first duty , the place of the eldest sister of the group of younger companions , who looked up to her and clung to her as their guide and truest friend . At that early time she was the ...
... early took that position which she ever held as her first duty , the place of the eldest sister of the group of younger companions , who looked up to her and clung to her as their guide and truest friend . At that early time she was the ...
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Anna Jane Buckland. At that early time she was the centre of the nursery life , the inventor of plays , the general peacemaker , and the one always ready to yield her own pleasure and time to the help and amuse- ment of the others . In ...
Anna Jane Buckland. At that early time she was the centre of the nursery life , the inventor of plays , the general peacemaker , and the one always ready to yield her own pleasure and time to the help and amuse- ment of the others . In ...
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... early years of her life at home , when she undertook the charge and teaching of her younger sisters . She had , it is true , many of the qualifications for a good teacher in the strong personal interest she took in the subjects she ...
... early years of her life at home , when she undertook the charge and teaching of her younger sisters . She had , it is true , many of the qualifications for a good teacher in the strong personal interest she took in the subjects she ...
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... early period of Ellen's life to that day when she wrote her last letter to Miss M C shortly before her hand was still in death . From this long and — close knowledge of Ellen's character this friend gives the following record of her ...
... early period of Ellen's life to that day when she wrote her last letter to Miss M C shortly before her hand was still in death . From this long and — close knowledge of Ellen's character this friend gives the following record of her ...
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Page 245 - Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon, Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon For simple sheep ; and such are daffodils With the green world they live in...
Page 271 - GLORY be to God on high, and in earth peace, good will towards men. We praise thee, we bless thee, we worship thee, we glorify thee, we give thanks to thee for thy great glory, O Lord God, heavenly King, God the Father Almighty.
Page 196 - But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
Page 245 - A THING of beauty is a joy for ever : Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness...
Page 73 - Our voices took a higher range; Once more we sang: 'They do not die Nor lose their mortal sympathy, Nor change to us, although they change ; 'Rapt from the fickle and the frail With gather'd power, yet the same, Pierces the keen seraphic flame From orb to orb, from veil to veil.
Page 263 - And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say : for the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say.
Page 248 - My spirit is too weak— mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagined pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick eagle looking at the sky. Yet 'tis a gentle luxury to weep That I have not the cloudy winds to keep, Fresh for the opening of the morning's eye. Such dim-conceived glories of the brain, Bring round the heart an...
Page 245 - Therefore on every morrow are we wreathing A flowery band to bind us to the earth, Spite of despondence, of the inhuman dearth Of noble natures, of the gloomy days, Of all the unhealthy and o'erdarkened ways Made for our searching. Yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits.
Page 18 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...