Florence Sackville: Or Self-dependence. An AutobiographyHarper & Brothers, publishers, 1852 - 184페이지 |
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... seemed to belong to them , I was a cherished favorite among the people , who watched me in my walks and rides as if I were a young princess ; and by the time I attained my sixth year I had become duly impressed with my own importance ...
... seemed to belong to them , I was a cherished favorite among the people , who watched me in my walks and rides as if I were a young princess ; and by the time I attained my sixth year I had become duly impressed with my own importance ...
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... seemed in the confusion to be a of sundry other damsels , who had entertained whole nursery of children . Never in my life hopes of the eligible major and his father's prop- had I been so astonished . The screams of the erty , it was ...
... seemed in the confusion to be a of sundry other damsels , who had entertained whole nursery of children . Never in my life hopes of the eligible major and his father's prop- had I been so astonished . The screams of the erty , it was ...
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... seemed to banging of doors and rushing up and down stairs , struck me with a sort of angry terror , anger that any one should dare to be so familiar in my grandfather's house ( I forgot that he was the father and grandfather of the ...
... seemed to banging of doors and rushing up and down stairs , struck me with a sort of angry terror , anger that any one should dare to be so familiar in my grandfather's house ( I forgot that he was the father and grandfather of the ...
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... seemed to be aware of the strange spec- tacle each helped to make in that oddly attired assembly . CHAPTER VII . No one was surprised the next morning to find that Mrs. William Vere breakfasted in her own room , or that the major spent ...
... seemed to be aware of the strange spec- tacle each helped to make in that oddly attired assembly . CHAPTER VII . No one was surprised the next morning to find that Mrs. William Vere breakfasted in her own room , or that the major spent ...
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... seemed to take a pettish pride in letting things go their own uncomfortable way , and where it was possible , even become worse . By means of a bribe , the promise of doubling her already handsome wages , my mother had induced her ...
... seemed to take a pettish pride in letting things go their own uncomfortable way , and where it was possible , even become worse . By means of a bribe , the promise of doubling her already handsome wages , my mother had induced her ...
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46 페이지 - And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground. And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand; when thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
1 페이지 - O fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know ere long, Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.
85 페이지 - ... chambers in the lonely poles. It deepened rather than interrupted the dreary, mysterious stillness of the atmosphere. The lightning, too, had a summer softness in its noiseless and frequent gleam. It was not the fierce lightning of winter, but a warm, fitful brightness, almost fascinating in its light, rapid recurrence, tinged with the glow of heaven, and not with the glare of hell. There was no wind — no rain; and the air was as hushed as if it slept over chaos in the infancy of a new creation....
63 페이지 - ... length he forgot that he was an outcast, and remembered triumphantly that he was still a priest. He felt animated by the same hopes, elevated by the same aspirations, as in those early days when he had harangued the wavering pagans in the temple, and first plotted the overthrow of the Christian Church. It was a terrible and warning proof of the omnipotent influence that a single idea may exercise over a whole life, to see that old man wandering among the crowds around him, still enslaved, after...
83 페이지 - ... suffering people ; from the beggar who prowled for garbage, to the patrician who sighed over his new and unwelcome nourishment of simple bread. While the penitents who formed the procession above described were yet engaged in the performance of their unnoticed and unshared duties of penance and prayer, a priest ascended the great pulpit of the* Basilica, to attempt the ungrateful task of preaching patience and piety to the hungry multitude at his feet. He began his sermon by retracing the principal...
69 페이지 - ... the distant lands that I would visit, of the happy nations that I would discover, of the mountain breezes that I would breathe, of the shady places that I would repose in, of the rivers that I would follow in their course, of the flowers I would plant, and the fruits I would gather! How I have hoped for such an existence as this ! How I have longed for a companion who might enjoy it as I should ! Have you never felt this joy that I have imagined to myself, you who have been free to wander wherever...