Pneumanee; or, The fairy of the nineteenth century, Volume 2 |
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Page 25
... rocks near the shore , which caused a continual foam and dashing of the water round them , greatly amused the little ones , who , but for their watchful nurse , ' VOL . II , C nurse , would have tried how slippery they were to 25.
... rocks near the shore , which caused a continual foam and dashing of the water round them , greatly amused the little ones , who , but for their watchful nurse , ' VOL . II , C nurse , would have tried how slippery they were to 25.
Page 48
... said of her ? and might she not now be invisibly in the very room , and hearing all that was passing ? They looked round with terror ; but when they were enough composed composed to hear she excelled in every human virtue , 48.
... said of her ? and might she not now be invisibly in the very room , and hearing all that was passing ? They looked round with terror ; but when they were enough composed composed to hear she excelled in every human virtue , 48.
Page 55
... round her , and again and again ca- ressed Fanny and Lucy - commended their air of health and good humour , produced , she said , from the morning breeze and habits of industry ; and was impatient herself to ramble with them again upon ...
... round her , and again and again ca- ressed Fanny and Lucy - commended their air of health and good humour , produced , she said , from the morning breeze and habits of industry ; and was impatient herself to ramble with them again upon ...
Page 56
... our guest ; and a little Fame , with a trumpet , stands by , to catch it from the Hermit , and sound it round the table . Don't you think " ( to Fanny ) " it will have a - good good effect ? " - " I cannot possibly judge 56.
... our guest ; and a little Fame , with a trumpet , stands by , to catch it from the Hermit , and sound it round the table . Don't you think " ( to Fanny ) " it will have a - good good effect ? " - " I cannot possibly judge 56.
Page 63
... round a cheerful fire , which the chillness of the evening air required , they inquired if Pneumanee had seen her young friends safe in London ? — Yes , she had left them supremely hap- py there , and then detailed the cir- cumstances ...
... round a cheerful fire , which the chillness of the evening air required , they inquired if Pneumanee had seen her young friends safe in London ? — Yes , she had left them supremely hap- py there , and then detailed the cir- cumstances ...
Common terms and phrases
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...