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Page 92 - Talk of the Venus! The statue that enchants the world is not half so respectable as Aunty Parshalls standing on her dish-kettle! CHAPTER XLIV. A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food ; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. WORDSWORTH. THE
Page 10 - Here are old trees, tall oaks, and gnarled pines, That stream with gray-green mosses; here the ground Was never trenched by spade, and flowers spring up unsown, And die ungathered.
Page 4 - was Th' amusing care of rural industry. Oh, let not then waste luxury impair That manly soul of toil which strings your nerves! Oh, let not the soft, penetrating plague Creep on the freebom mind) and, working there, With the sharp tooth of many a
Page 59 - Mr. Ellis, who lives in our memories as a most engaging wight, Of social glee, and wit humane, though keen. Charlotte's little love too, and a larger share From yours,
Page 28 - once satisfying the eye, exciting the imagination, and filling the soul with the most profound sense of the presence of the divine Author. Nature herself, it seems, would raise A minster to her Maker's praise! Nor for a meaner use ascend Her columns, or her arches bend.
Page 93 - or good For human nature's daily food ; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. WORDSWORTH.
Page 71 - Blessed with a kindly faculty, to blunt The edge of adverse circumstance, and turn Into their contraries the petty plagues And hindrances with which they stand beset.
Page 152 - THE PRINCIPLES OF MORALITY, AKD THE PRIVATE AND POLITICAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF MANKIND. BY JONATHAN DYMOND. ABRIDGED, AND PROVIDED WITH QUESTIONS, FOR
Page 59 - up a piece of bright scarlet, — "splendid French work collars and capes," — and here he displayed some hideous things, the flowers on which were distinctly traceable from where I stood, — "elegant milk-pans, and Harrison skimmers, and ne plus ultry dippers ! patent pills — cure any thing you like — ague bitters — Shaker yarbs — essences, wintergreen,
Page 47 - edges with a knife, in order to replace them in their original circular position in the dishes. When this was accomplished, she assiduously scraped from the edges of the plates the scraps of butter that had escaped demolition, and wiped them back on the remains of the pat. This was doubtless