Florence, the Parish Orphan: And A Sketch of the Village in the Last Century |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 38
Page 7
... mother was a Catholic . This circum- stance created some embarrassment at the funeral of the mother , whose grave was made in a remote corner of our village burial - ground , but shaded by a pear - tree , that hung from a neigh- boring ...
... mother was a Catholic . This circum- stance created some embarrassment at the funeral of the mother , whose grave was made in a remote corner of our village burial - ground , but shaded by a pear - tree , that hung from a neigh- boring ...
Page 8
... mother yearned to take the little French baby t breast , prudence , and her husband's dimin resources forbade , and it became the char the parish . It was the orphan of the parish , and offered to the cheapest bidder , to nurse and up ...
... mother yearned to take the little French baby t breast , prudence , and her husband's dimin resources forbade , and it became the char the parish . It was the orphan of the parish , and offered to the cheapest bidder , to nurse and up ...
Page 10
... mother that bore it . Never child throve as did this one . There was some blessed virtue in that milky mother , the cow . The infant grew not only large , fair , beauti- ful and bright , but it was blessed with the serenest of tempers ...
... mother that bore it . Never child throve as did this one . There was some blessed virtue in that milky mother , the cow . The infant grew not only large , fair , beauti- ful and bright , but it was blessed with the serenest of tempers ...
Page 11
... mother would have blessed God for such a gift , and would have lavished upon it all the luxuries which this little motherless child of poverty never missed or needed . It grew in beauty . The little red baize gown which contrasted so ...
... mother would have blessed God for such a gift , and would have lavished upon it all the luxuries which this little motherless child of poverty never missed or needed . It grew in beauty . The little red baize gown which contrasted so ...
Page 19
... mother , he instantly discharged it , and shot the poor calf through the head . His aunt could not now punish him , for his physical strength far exceeded hers ; and as she had allowed his former bursts of passion to pass unpunished ...
... mother , he instantly discharged it , and shot the poor calf through the head . His aunt could not now punish him , for his physical strength far exceeded hers ; and as she had allowed his former bursts of passion to pass unpunished ...
Other editions - View all
Florence, the Parish Orphan: And a Sketch of the Village in the Last Century ... Eliza Buckminster Lee No preview available - 2017 |
Florence, the Parish Orphan: And a Sketch of the Village in the Last Century Tbd No preview available - 2020 |
Florence, the Parish Orphan: And a Sketch of the Village in the Last Century ... Eliza Buckminster Lee No preview available - 2019 |
Common terms and phrases
50 cents affection agony Alice aunt beautiful birds blessed blushed Boston burst character cheek cheerful child choly contra dance cottage creature crucifix dance dear death deep devoted dollar England eyes face farm father favorite fear feelings Flory Flory's flowers gentle George Lovell girl Goody Goody's Grace grandmother Griffiths hair hand Hannah happiness heard heart heaven hour humble infancy knew letter lips lived looked Madonna marriage master meeting-house melan Miss Leonard morning mother never night noble pain pale PARISH ORPHAN passed passion Perhaps Physiognomists POEMS Price 50 Price 75 cents Puritan quiet Ralph remember rose school-house Shakspeare sister smile soon sorrow stood summer sweet tears temper tender thing thought timid took touched trees turned uncon village walked winter woman wood wooden spoons young youth
Popular passages
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...