Pneumanee; or, The fairy of the nineteenth century, Volume 2 |
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... hoped Miss Volatile would take care that she never should ; for she had no particular desire to be laughed at . " - " You are a good girl , " said Miss Vo- latile , " and a dear creature , and quite right ; for nobody likes to be ...
... hoped Miss Volatile would take care that she never should ; for she had no particular desire to be laughed at . " - " You are a good girl , " said Miss Vo- latile , " and a dear creature , and quite right ; for nobody likes to be ...
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... hoped that such a character , such wisdom and discretion as hers , would have secured her from the envenomed breath of scandal ; —but who , " he significantly said , " can es- cape it ? " The ladies , drawing up their heads occasionally ...
... hoped that such a character , such wisdom and discretion as hers , would have secured her from the envenomed breath of scandal ; —but who , " he significantly said , " can es- cape it ? " The ladies , drawing up their heads occasionally ...
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... the power of relieving the hungry and distressed . - " A folly , " she said , " she would dis- card with the next object she met • with , she hoped for ever . " Pneu- manee with , 62 shall never be said, that I, man and ...
... the power of relieving the hungry and distressed . - " A folly , " she said , " she would dis- card with the next object she met • with , she hoped for ever . " Pneu- manee with , 62 shall never be said, that I, man and ...
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Pneumanee (fict.name.) with , she hoped for ever . " Pneu- manee , with a kind of respect , begged him to accept her offering as an acknowledgment of his worth , and her admiration of it ; and put some- thing more worth his acceptance ...
Pneumanee (fict.name.) with , she hoped for ever . " Pneu- manee , with a kind of respect , begged him to accept her offering as an acknowledgment of his worth , and her admiration of it ; and put some- thing more worth his acceptance ...
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... hoped they would fully enjoy it . " " I think , " said Fanny , " it was their father ; he seems a kind - hearted man , with a great unwillingness to ap- pear so . " — " I think , " said Lucy , look- ing archly at Pneumanee , " I am sure ...
... hoped they would fully enjoy it . " " I think , " said Fanny , " it was their father ; he seems a kind - hearted man , with a great unwillingness to ap- pear so . " — " I think , " said Lucy , look- ing archly at Pneumanee , " I am sure ...
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admiration amusement artless asked babilities beach beauty believe blessings blushed boards body carriage Charles charming comfort dear creature dear Fanny dear girls dear Lucy dear Pneumanee dearest delightful Devil to pay dinner dread dress elegant epergne Fanny's father fear feel felt foolscap 8vo friends gaily give habits half-crown hand happy HATCHARD hear heard heart Hermit hoped impatient kind knew laugh leave letter London look Lord R.'s Lordship mamma manee married mind Miss Volatile Mitre morning necklace never old nurse opinion pain papa Parsonage party peated pelisses pleasant pleasure Pneu Pneuma poor recollection Rector Rector's wife remark replied returned Rock-house round Rupert Street scene shew smiled soon splendour sure talk taste Teignmouth tell thing thought took tranquillity village vols walk warm wife wish young ladies
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Page 181 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Page 182 - With this her solemn bird and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train: But neither breath of morn when she ascends With charm of earliest birds, nor rising sun On this delightful land, nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew, nor fragrance after showers, Nor grateful evening mild, nor silent night With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight without thee is sweet.
Page 182 - But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds; nor rising sun On this delightful land; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers; Nor grateful evening mild; nor silent night With this her solemn bird; nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.
Page 12 - His all-searching eye will assuredly never pursue us into those little corners of our lives, much less will His justice select them for punishment without the general context of our existence, by which faults may be sometimes found to have grown out of virtues and very many of our heaviest offences to have been grafted by human imperfection upon the best and kindest of our affections.
Page 11 - God have mercy upon us ! — instead of standing before him in judgment with the hopes and consolations of Christians, we must call upon the mountains to cover us ; for which of us can present, for Omniscient examination, a pure, unspotted, and faultless course ? But I humbly expect that the benevolent Author of our being will judge us as I have been pointing out for your example. Holding up the great volume of our lives in his hands, and regarding the general scope of them ; — if he discovers...
Page 4 - He was wont to say that wisdom lay in the heart, and not in the head ; and that it was not the want of knowledge, but the perverseness of the will, that filled men's actions with folly and their lives with .disorder.
Page 12 - Holding up the great volume of our lives in his hands, and regarding the general scope of them; if He discovers benevolence, charity, and good-will to man beating in the heart, where He alone can look; if He finds that our conduct, though often forced out of the path by our infirmities, has been in general well directed; his allsearching...