Pneumanee; or, The fairy of the nineteenth century, Volume 2 |
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... wives in the world upon that account : you know I never contradicted your father . " Then fol- lowed a most incoherent detail of her husband's temper and feelings , that seemed to grow upon description , and threatened never to end ...
... wives in the world upon that account : you know I never contradicted your father . " Then fol- lowed a most incoherent detail of her husband's temper and feelings , that seemed to grow upon description , and threatened never to end ...
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... remember , to this effect : - " The withered hand of a once happy wife and mother has too deeply shared in the sorrows of a broken heart , to be fit to write to a Princess ; it trembles to to hold a pen ; its last efforts have been 35.
... remember , to this effect : - " The withered hand of a once happy wife and mother has too deeply shared in the sorrows of a broken heart , to be fit to write to a Princess ; it trembles to to hold a pen ; its last efforts have been 35.
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... wife of their delightful friend . A doubt still remained in the air and manner of the incredulous ladies , till Lucy , in her strong and energetic manner , said , " Pneumanee was the friend and dear- . est est intimate of the Princess ...
... wife of their delightful friend . A doubt still remained in the air and manner of the incredulous ladies , till Lucy , in her strong and energetic manner , said , " Pneumanee was the friend and dear- . est est intimate of the Princess ...
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... wife , said a thousand kind and grateful things to them- kissed all the little ones , who crowded round her , and again and again ca- ressed Fanny and Lucy - commended their air of health and good humour , produced , she said , from the ...
... wife , said a thousand kind and grateful things to them- kissed all the little ones , who crowded round her , and again and again ca- ressed Fanny and Lucy - commended their air of health and good humour , produced , she said , from the ...
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... wife , two daughters , and Pneumanee , well guarded from the cold , must go to see it with him . At the first moment of their approach to the beach the anchor gave way , and , with the most incredible swiftness , the vessel blew the ...
... wife , two daughters , and Pneumanee , well guarded from the cold , must go to see it with him . At the first moment of their approach to the beach the anchor gave way , and , with the most incredible swiftness , the vessel blew the ...
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
Popular passages
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...