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... and as Florence was marked upon the linen of its mother , it received that name , soon converted into Flory , by the tenderness of every one who looked upon the little orphan . When she was two years old and THE PARISH ORPHAN . 11.
... and as Florence was marked upon the linen of its mother , it received that name , soon converted into Flory , by the tenderness of every one who looked upon the little orphan . When she was two years old and THE PARISH ORPHAN . 11.
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... Flory who brought home and milked the cow . Flory gathered the wood in the forest for the fire ; swept the earthen floor ; fed the fowls , and sought for their eggs in the low shrubs , and in the clefts of the rocks . Flory's little ...
... Flory who brought home and milked the cow . Flory gathered the wood in the forest for the fire ; swept the earthen floor ; fed the fowls , and sought for their eggs in the low shrubs , and in the clefts of the rocks . Flory's little ...
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... Flory's gathering ; and a kind word and some little pres- ent was often added to the coppers , when she made her humble curtsy to the minister's lady . She grew and blossomed as the flowers blossom , in unseen fragrance , under God's ...
... Flory's gathering ; and a kind word and some little pres- ent was often added to the coppers , when she made her humble curtsy to the minister's lady . She grew and blossomed as the flowers blossom , in unseen fragrance , under God's ...
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... ; and she besought the overseers to allow Florence to stay with her . After considering the services that poor Flory was capable of rendering , they wrung from the old woman the four shillings they had paid 14 FLORENCE , CHAPTER II. ...
... ; and she besought the overseers to allow Florence to stay with her . After considering the services that poor Flory was capable of rendering , they wrung from the old woman the four shillings they had paid 14 FLORENCE , CHAPTER II. ...
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... Flory was a genius , but she possessed one faculty in a remarkable degree . A sense of fitness and propriety . It might be called taste , and it was wonderful how the characteristic of her native land appeared in the little back - woods ...
... Flory was a genius , but she possessed one faculty in a remarkable degree . A sense of fitness and propriety . It might be called taste , and it was wonderful how the characteristic of her native land appeared in the little back - woods ...
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Page 90 - Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious, mainly, that the flock he feeds May 'feel it too. Affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
Page 83 - Ah, happy hills, ah, pleasing shade, Ah, fields beloved in vain, Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain ? I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Page 1 - THREE years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, " A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ; This Child I to myself will take, She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own. Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse : and with me The Girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.
Page 116 - As is the hare-bell that adorns the field : And in her hand, for sceptre, she does wield Tway birchen sprays...
Page 130 - Suck, little Babe, oh suck again ! It cools my blood ; it cools my brain ; Thy lips I feel them, Baby ! they Draw from my heart the pain away.
Page 97 - Sweet harmonist ! and beautiful as sweet ! And young as beautiful ! and soft as young ! And gay as soft! and innocent as gay ! And happy (if aught happy here) as good ! For fortune fond had built her nest on high.
Page 90 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden -flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...