Mrs. Leicester's School, Or, The History of Several Young Ladies, Related by ThemselvesM.J. Godwin, 1814 - 176 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 100 - ... that had no bottom. I considered myself as a Mahometan, yet I was perfectly giddy whenever I thought of passing over this bridge. One day, seeing the old lady totter across the room, a sudden terror seized me, for I thought how would she ever be able to get over the bridge. Then too it was, that I first recollected that my mother would also be in imminent danger ; for I imagined she had never heard the name of Mahomet, because...
الصفحة 35 - How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower!
الصفحة 13 - I was sleeping in the grave with mv papa and mamma ; and in my childish dreams I used to fancy myself there ; and it was a place within the ground, all smooth, and soft, and green. I never made out any figure of mamma, but still it was the tombstone, and papa, and the smooth green grass, and my head resting upon the arm of my father.
الصفحة 85 - Most people, I understand, prefer the first tale — in truth a very admirable one — but others could have written it. Show me the man or woman, modern or ancient, who could have written this one sentence: "When I was dressed in my new frock, I wished poor mamma was alive to see how fine I was on papa's wedding-day; and I ran to my favourite station at her bedroom door.
الصفحة 96 - F seeing what it contained ; and though still foiled in the attempt, I every day endeavoured to turn the lock, which whether by constantly trying I loosened, being probably a very old one, or that the door was not locked but fastened tight by time, I know not, — to my great joy, as...
الصفحة 99 - Abraham were known by a light which streamed from the middle of their foreheads. It said that Ishmael's father and mother first saw this light streaming from his forehead as he was lying asleep in the cradle. I was very sorry so many of the leaves were torn out, for it was as entertaining as a fairy tale. I used to read the history of Ishmael and then go and look at him in the tapestry, and then read his history again. When I had almost learned the history of Ishmael by heart I read the rest of the...