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" And stringing pretty words that make no sense, And kissing full sense into empty words ; Which things are corals to cut life upon, Although such trifles... "
Littell's Living Age - Page 440
1857
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Aurora Leigh

Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1857 - 404 pages
...It might have steadied the uneasy breath, And reconciled and fraternised my soul With the new order. As it was, indeed, I felt a mother-want about the...tender knack Of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, AM stringing pretty words that make no sense, And kissing full sense into empty words ; Which things...
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Aurora Leigh. Author's ed

Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1857 - 388 pages
...It might have steadied the uneasy breath, And reconciled and fraternised my soul With the new order. As it was, indeed, I felt a mother-want about the...simple, merry, tender knack Of tying sashes, fitting baby -shoes, And stringing pretty words that make no sense, And kissing full sense into empty words...
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United States Magazine of Science, Art, Manufactures, Agriculture ..., Volume 4

1857 - 662 pages
...sweet utterance, and the soul of a lovely womanhood lurks in expressions like the following : *• Women know The way to rear up children, (to be just.) They know a simple, merry, tender knack Of tying HauheH, fitting baby-shoes, And stringing pretty words that make no sonse. And kissing full аепяе...
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The National Quarterly Review, Volumes 5-6

1862 - 838 pages
...reconcile her "to the new order," but, like all fathers, failed, not from the want of will, but power. " Women know The way to rear up children (to be just),...And stringing pretty words that make no sense, And kilting full sense into empty wordi. Fathers love as well, Mine did, I know — but still with heavier...
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Many thoughts of many minds. Compiled by H. Southgate

Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...that language, ignorant of ill. Born from a perfect harmony of power and will. Llovd. CHLLDBEN-Care ou * ʝ" ^v ؂8T P Y ( 2 s~i + Ԯ ̂j q@{f h n 5RLL g U S c + ~ knacV Of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes. And stringing pretty words that make no sense, And kissing...
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A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets

Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 pages
...to sway the breast, And heaven was round us while we fed On rich ambrosial gingerbread. Eliza Cooh. Women know The way to rear up children (to be just)...are corals to cut life upon, Although such trifles. Mrs. Browning. CHOICE. When better cherries are not to be had, We needs must take the seeming best...
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Friends Intelligencer: A Religious and Family Journal, Volume 24

1868 - 848 pages
...little one that comes into the world. God has made it so in his infinite and unfailing providence. " Women know The way to rear up children (to be just) ; They know a simple, merry, tender knack Of tieinir sashes, fitting buby-shoes, And stringing pretty words that make no sense, And kissing full...
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Proceedings, Volume 24

Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1870 - 312 pages
...an affection for those they were paid to rear. The gifted authoress of Aurora Leigh remarks that — Women know The way to rear up children (to be just)....simple, merry, tender knack Of tying sashes, fitting baby shoes, And stringing pretty words that make no sense, And kissing full sense into empty words....
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The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Complete in One Volume

Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1870 - 533 pages
...It might have steadied the uneasy breath, And reconciled and fraternised my soul With the new order. As it was, indeed, I felt a mother-want about the...Of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, And stringing prettg words that make no sense, And kissing full sense into empty words ; Which things are corals...
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The Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume 3

Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1874 - 482 pages
...make my father sadder, and myself Not overjoy ous, truly. Women know The way to rear up children, (t<> be just,) They know a simple, merry, tender knack Of tying sashes, fitting baby -shoos, And stringing pretty words that make no sense, And kissing full sense into empty words...
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