Eastford; Or, Household SketchesCrocker & Brewster, 1855 - 328 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
acquaintance Alice amongst appeared Aunt Sibyl beach beautiful believe called certainly character charming Cobstalk Colesville color course CROCKER & BREWSTER Deacon deal dear deed doubt E. A. ANDREWS Eastford English language entirely eyes fact Fassett father feel folks friends Gammon gentleman George Atherton Hamilton College hand happy heart heaven honor hope horse hotch-pot HOUSEHOLD SKETCHES interest John Atherton Joslin land Latin Grammar Latin language living look Mary Massa Atterton McQuillen mean mind Miss Dudley Miss Flyter Miss Inchskip Miss Poulter morning Nance Nancy nature never observed occasion old Arey once Oxton party perhaps person poor present pretty quiet Rankin reason replied Rutledge scarcely schooner seemed Shirland soon sort spirit squire stood suppose sure sweet tell things thought tion town true vessel Waldo Patent Walton word young ladies
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Página 25 - My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth; But higher far my proud pretensions rise,— The son of parents passed into the skies!
Página 44 - In such a night Stood Dido with a willow in her hand Upon the wild sea-banks, and waft her love To come again to Carthage.
Página 154 - The happiness of the world is the concern of him who is the Lord and the Proprietor of it ; nor do we know what we are about, when we endeavour to promote the good of mankind in any ways but those which he has directed ; that is, indeed, in all ways not contrary to veracity and justice.
Página 271 - Alas! Love, I would thou couldst as well defend thyself as thou canst offend others! I would those on whom thou dost attend could either put thee away, or yield good reason why they keep thee! But grant love of beauty to be a beastly fault, although...
Página 200 - If none regard; heaven wakes with all his eyes, Whom to behold but thee, nature's desire? In whose sight all things joy with ravishment Attracted by thy beauty still to gaze.
Página 180 - Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this.
Página 69 - How oft by these at sixty are undone The virtues of a saint at twenty-one! To whom can riches give repute or trust, Content, or pleasure, but the good and just?
Página 79 - Adversity is like the period of the former and of the latter rain — cold, comfortless, unfriendly to man and to animal; yet from that season have their birth the flower and the fruit — the date, the rose, and the pomegranate.
Página 212 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno to descry new lands, .Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe; His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Página 248 - ... me no more : what answer should I give ? I love not hollow cheek or faded eye : Yet, O my friend, I will not have thee die ! Ask me no more, lest I should bid thee live ; Ask me no more.
Referencias a este libro
Acres of Flint: Sarah Orne Jewett and Her Contemporaries Perry D. Westbrook Vista de fragmentos - 1981 |
Acres of Flint: Sarah Orne Jewett and Her Contemporaries Perry D. Westbrook Vista de fragmentos - 1981 |