The Children's Bower; Or, What You Like, Volumen1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1858 |
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... less plains , and latterly through the streets of an adjacent city filled with strange faces , where , though all respected no one recognized as his own the symbols of their ancient faith , — -on coming to this spot , where for ages it ...
... less plains , and latterly through the streets of an adjacent city filled with strange faces , where , though all respected no one recognized as his own the symbols of their ancient faith , — -on coming to this spot , where for ages it ...
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... less the same in all families , very often more impressive and more instructive , if you think well on them , and look straight at them , than all the fine writing that is approved of as the sole standard of excellence by those learned ...
... less the same in all families , very often more impressive and more instructive , if you think well on them , and look straight at them , than all the fine writing that is approved of as the sole standard of excellence by those learned ...
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... less successful in writing for that humble , modest truth , which is all of application to common things . " But , as has been already suggested , more than this may be advanced to show the importance that would be attached to such a ...
... less successful in writing for that humble , modest truth , which is all of application to common things . " But , as has been already suggested , more than this may be advanced to show the importance that would be attached to such a ...
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... less of that universal character , and therefore we offend not against truth by the proposal , which is very necessary , in order to prevent us from appearing to introduce matters that ought to be concealed ; let us approach this group ...
... less of that universal character , and therefore we offend not against truth by the proposal , which is very necessary , in order to prevent us from appearing to introduce matters that ought to be concealed ; let us approach this group ...
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... less a blissful creature , eternally existing , and perhaps even here a loving and a close observer . There is next , whom , alas ! we are at liberty to praise for the reason known to you already , the visible angel of the house , whose ...
... less a blissful creature , eternally existing , and perhaps even here a loving and a close observer . There is next , whom , alas ! we are at liberty to praise for the reason known to you already , the visible angel of the house , whose ...
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Acheul admire affection Augustin beauty Bonifacius brother called charity Charles Lamb charm cher child childhood and youth Children's Bower Christian Church Cicero common congruum Cratylus delight disposition divine dream Duc de Beauvilliers Duc de Saint-Simon earth evil eyes fact faith father feel flowers forgiveness friends grace grave grown-up happy hear heard heart heaven holy human humour innocence kind Lactantius laugh Leigh Hunt lesson little John live look Lord Brougham mamouselle manners mercy mind mirth nature never observe pass passion Père de Neuville perhaps persons philosophers Plato play pleasure poet poor present reason religion remark respect Ruskin says St seems simplicity smile sorrow soul speak spirit Stones of Venice stranger sweet Tacitus teach thee thing thou thought tion truth university of Paris virtue voice wish words young καὶ
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Página 110 - Yes ! let the rich deride, the proud disdain These simple blessings of the lowly train ; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art...
Página 2 - twere with a defeated joy, With one auspicious and one dropping eye, With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage, In equal scale weighing delight and dole...
Página 133 - The season's glorious show, Nor would its brightness shine for me, Nor its wild music flow ; But if, around my place of sleep, The friends I love should come to weep, They might not haste to go. Soft airs, and song, and light, and bloom, Should keep them lingering by my tomb.
Página 127 - He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
Página 6 - There, in that silent room below, The dead lay in his shroud of snow; And in the hush that followed the prayer, Was heard the old clock on the stair, — ' ' Forever — never ! Never — forever! " All are scattered now and fled, Some are married, some are dead; And when I ask, with throbs of pain, " Ah ! when shall they all meet again...
Página 124 - Twill soon be Winter now. Robin, Robin Redbreast, O Robin dear! And what will this poor Robin do? For pinching days are near. The fireside for the cricket, The wheat-stack for the mouse, When trembling night-winds whistle And moan all round the house. The frosty ways like iron, The branches plumed with snow, — Alas! in Winter dead and dark, Where can poor Robin go? Robin, Robin Redbreast, O Robin dear! And a crumb of bread for Robin, His little heart to cheer!
Página 120 - Forever — never! Never — forever!" In that mansion used to be Free-hearted Hospitality; His great fires up the chimney roared; The stranger feasted at his board; But, like the skeleton at the feast, That warning timepiece never ceased, — "Forever — never! Never — forever!
Página 11 - And last, Man's Life on earth, Glide to thy dim dominions, and are bound. Thou hast my better years ; Thou hast my earlier friends, the good, the kind, Yielded to thee with tears — The venerable form, the exalted mind. My spirit yearns to bring The lost ones back — yearns with desire intense, And struggles hard to wring Thy bolts apart, and pluck thy captives thence.
Página 140 - When from thy cheerful eyes a ray Hath struck a bliss upon the day, A bliss that would not go away, A sweet fore-warning?
Página 95 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree ; While many a pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed ; And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round...