Pneumanee; or, The fairy of the nineteenth century, Volume 2 |
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... turned to the house- " What is impossible ? " said Pneumanee , who was unexpectedly behind her . " Impos- sible , ” she said , " to keep out of the way of this odd animal , a Lord . ” Pneumanee laughed . " What do you take him to be ...
... turned to the house- " What is impossible ? " said Pneumanee , who was unexpectedly behind her . " Impos- sible , ” she said , " to keep out of the way of this odd animal , a Lord . ” Pneumanee laughed . " What do you take him to be ...
Page 64
... turned out upon the road by their father ; but so many pleaders , in fa- vour of caps and bonnets , and no im- mediate mischief arising to his heirs , he submitted , with a smile , to the pre- sent inconvenience . They were all ...
... turned out upon the road by their father ; but so many pleaders , in fa- vour of caps and bonnets , and no im- mediate mischief arising to his heirs , he submitted , with a smile , to the pre- sent inconvenience . They were all ...
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... turned them to the window to give " them time and opportunity . Lucy , who had just returned , after leaving the room a few minutes , seeing her sister's tears run freely down her cheek , wiped her own eyes that filled with sympa ...
... turned them to the window to give " them time and opportunity . Lucy , who had just returned , after leaving the room a few minutes , seeing her sister's tears run freely down her cheek , wiped her own eyes that filled with sympa ...
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... . As soon as the permission was granted , and the fine servant had retired from the door , " Was ever any thing so unlucky ? " said Fanny , " all " all my resolutions never to to see this man are turned aside the very first 79.
... . As soon as the permission was granted , and the fine servant had retired from the door , " Was ever any thing so unlucky ? " said Fanny , " all " all my resolutions never to to see this man are turned aside the very first 79.
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... turned very yel- low too , Fanny , but I don't think it signifies ; people in the country can't be expected to dress like London la- dies . " Fanny smiled . The Rector read his Saturday even- ing's lecture ; but I am sadly afraid his ...
... turned very yel- low too , Fanny , but I don't think it signifies ; people in the country can't be expected to dress like London la- dies . " Fanny smiled . The Rector read his Saturday even- ing's lecture ; but I am sadly afraid his ...
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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...