The Works of Anna Lætitia Barbauld: With a Memoir, Volumen2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825 - 470 páginas |
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... never knows when to have done . In a common letter you fill your sheet , and there's an end ; but with a frank you may write on and on for ever : I have tired two pens already . But I will write no more to you : I will write to poor ...
... never knows when to have done . In a common letter you fill your sheet , and there's an end ; but with a frank you may write on and on for ever : I have tired two pens already . But I will write no more to you : I will write to poor ...
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... never promised to fill this second sheet . Good bye to you . 1776 . YOUR kind and acceptable letter would have met with an earlier answer , if we could either of us have commanded time to write . The manner in which you receive our ...
... never promised to fill this second sheet . Good bye to you . 1776 . YOUR kind and acceptable letter would have met with an earlier answer , if we could either of us have commanded time to write . The manner in which you receive our ...
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... never , I be- lieve , been pursued before . Both the defects and beauties which you have noticed are very stri- king , and the result of the whole work , besides the truths it conveys , is a most pleasing impres- sion left upon the mind ...
... never , I be- lieve , been pursued before . Both the defects and beauties which you have noticed are very stri- king , and the result of the whole work , besides the truths it conveys , is a most pleasing impres- sion left upon the mind ...
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... never willingly receive information from them . - We are wondrous busy in preparing our play , The Tempest ; and four or five of our little ones are to come in as fairies ; and I am piecing scraps from the Midsummer Night's Dream , & c ...
... never willingly receive information from them . - We are wondrous busy in preparing our play , The Tempest ; and four or five of our little ones are to come in as fairies ; and I am piecing scraps from the Midsummer Night's Dream , & c ...
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... never made its appearance to this day ; and what vexes Miss B. is , that Patty can but be in her debt , and that she was before . Now half this letter she says was about Charles , which may serve to excuse me , who finished in a violent ...
... never made its appearance to this day ; and what vexes Miss B. is , that Patty can but be in her debt , and that she was before . Now half this letter she says was about Charles , which may serve to excuse me , who finished in a violent ...
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The Works of Anna Lætitia Barbauld, Volumen2 Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia),Lucy Aikin Vista completa - 1826 |
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Página 244 - This day is called the feast of Crispian. He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when this day is named, And rouse him at the name of Crispian. He that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, And say "Tomorrow is Saint Crispian." Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, And say "These wounds I had on Crispin's day.
Página 431 - But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth; for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
Página 430 - And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Página 134 - My DEAR FRIEND, — I was just going to write to you when I received your letter. I was waiting till I had got away from Concord. I should have sent you something for the " Dial " before, but I have been sick ever since I came here, rather unaccountably, — what with a cold, bronchitis, acclimation, etc., still unaccountably. I send you some verses from my journal which...
Página 26 - FAIR stood the wind for France When we our sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry; But putting to the main, At Caux, the mouth of Seine, With all his martial train, Landed King Harry.
Página 163 - The hill of Science. IK that season of the year, when the serenity of the sky, the various fruits which cover the ground, the discoloured foliage of the trees, and all the sweet, but fading graces of inspiring autumn, open the mind to benevolence, and dispose it for contemplation...
Página 213 - Till, by degrees, the floating mirror shines, Reflects each flower that on the border grows, And a new heaven in its fair bosom shows.
Página 189 - And why can you not ? What hinders you from discarding this troublesome scrupulosity of yours which stands so grievously in your .way ? If it be a small thing to enjoy a healthful mind, sound at the very core, that does not shrink from the keenest inspection; inward freedom from remorse and perturbation; unsullied whiteness and simplicity of manners ; a genuine integrity, "Pure in the last recesses of the mind," — if you think these advantages an inadequate recompense -for what you resign, dismiss...
Página 413 - Ye chief, for whom the whole creation smiles, At once the head, the heart, and tongue of all, Crown...
Página 164 - ... but, as they proceeded, new hills were continually rising to their view, and the summit of the highest they could before discern seemed but the foot of another, till the mountain at length appeared to lose itself in the clouds. As I was gazing on these things with astonishment, my good genius suddenly appeared : The mountain before thee, said he, is the Hill of Science.