Fanny Lee's testimony |
Din interiorul cărții
Rezultatele 1 - 5 din 79
Pagina 1
... look back with fondest remembrance , for such was my happy lot that a warm and lasting friendship was formed between us . Our meeting was casual , at a social gathering for a philanthropic object , in which we had each agreed to take a ...
... look back with fondest remembrance , for such was my happy lot that a warm and lasting friendship was formed between us . Our meeting was casual , at a social gathering for a philanthropic object , in which we had each agreed to take a ...
Pagina 3
... thou wert to me all that a child might reverence and love ! When the lineaments of thy face were fair and gentle , and the soft tones of thy voice were full of tenderness - when I could look up to thee with A YORKSHIRE TALE .
... thou wert to me all that a child might reverence and love ! When the lineaments of thy face were fair and gentle , and the soft tones of thy voice were full of tenderness - when I could look up to thee with A YORKSHIRE TALE .
Pagina 4
Beulah Kezia Hanson. tenderness - when I could look up to thee with all the idolatry of infancy , and felt no fear for the future . Ah , that future , darkening even then in the distance , and closing on me at length in gloomy horror ...
Beulah Kezia Hanson. tenderness - when I could look up to thee with all the idolatry of infancy , and felt no fear for the future . Ah , that future , darkening even then in the distance , and closing on me at length in gloomy horror ...
Pagina 16
... look for guidance and consolation . My father had no near relations . His parents had long been dead , and his more distant connections , who were quite unknown to me , had left the country . My mother's parents had lived in the same ...
... look for guidance and consolation . My father had no near relations . His parents had long been dead , and his more distant connections , who were quite unknown to me , had left the country . My mother's parents had lived in the same ...
Pagina 19
... look or tone . The beautiful words of Tennyson might have been aptly applied to her as she then appeared to me : " A simple maiden in her flower Is worth a thousand coats - of - arms . " She was surrounded by many showy beauties , for ...
... look or tone . The beautiful words of Tennyson might have been aptly applied to her as she then appeared to me : " A simple maiden in her flower Is worth a thousand coats - of - arms . " She was surrounded by many showy beauties , for ...
Termeni și expresii frecvente
abstinence anguish asked beauty believe better boys called cause child comfort Cottage darling dear Mary dearest death delight distress dreadful drink drunkard earnest Edinburgh Ellen evil exclaimed eyes face Fairfield Fanny father fear feel felt Frank Hamer Frederick Kelly gentle GERALD MASSEY girl glass grief hand happy Harry Mills heard heart hope husband intemperance intoxicated JOHN HEYWOOD Kelly kind knew lady Laura little Allie look Maister Lister Mary Lister Mary's matter mind misery Miss Lister mother mysen Nelly never Newburn night once passed perhaps pleasant pleasure poor present promise regarded replied Robert Turner seemed shewed society soon sorrow suffer sure Susan Susy sweet teetotal teetotaller tell temperance Temperance Band tender thing thought told tone took trembling truth Walter wife William Lister wine wish words Yorkshire young youth
Pasaje populare
Pagina 79 - O God ! that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains ; that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts.
Pagina 132 - Cursed be the social wants that sin against the strength of youth! Cursed be the social lies that warp us from the living truth!
Pagina 356 - I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.
Pagina 38 - What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize: A better would you fix?
Pagina 61 - Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words — health, peace, and competence. But health consists with temperance alone : And peace, O virtue ! peace is all thy own.
Pagina 143 - O madness, to think use of strongest wines, And strongest drinks, our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook ! Sams.
Pagina 110 - Beauty is my Love, Yet in her earnest face There's such a world of tenderness, She needs no other grace.
Pagina 132 - Men make resolves, and pass into decrees The motions of the mind! with how much ease, In such resolves, doth passion make a flaw, And bring to nothing what was raised to law! In empire young, scarce warm on Gotham's throne, The dangers and the sweets of...
Pagina 192 - Hail, social life ! into thy pleasing bounds Again I come to pay the common stock, My share of service, and, in glad return, To taste thy comforts, thy protected joys.
Pagina 324 - Good men have said That sometimes God leaves sinners to their sin,— He has left me to mine, and I am changed; My worst part is insurgent, and my will Is weak .and powerless as a trembling king When millions rise up hungry.