Scenes and characters; or, Eighteen months at Beechcroft. By the author of 'Abbeychurch'. |
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Ada's Adeline afraid Alethea amusement asked aunt Baron Beechcroft began better boys Broom Hill Broomhill brother called Castle child Church Claude Claude's Court cousin cried Lily dance dear Devereux dinner door drawing-room duty Eleanor Emily's Esther exclaimed eyes father fault feel felt Florence gave girls glad Guy Mannering Hawkesworth hear heard hope Jane Jane drew Jane's Kezia kind knew Lady Rotherwood laughing Lily's look Lord Rotherwood Marianne Marquis Maurice Maurice's mean mind mischief Miss Aylmer Miss Mohuns Miss Weston morning mother Naylor never nonsense Papa Phyl Phyllis Phyllis's poor promise Rachel Rachel Harvey Raynham Redgie Reginald reux Robert scarlet fever school-room sisters smile soon sorry speak sure talk tell thing thought told tone took voice walk Walter Greenwood wasps Waverley Novels Whit-Sunday William wish
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الصفحة 216 - My Godfathers and Godmothers in my Baptism ; wherein I was made a member of Christ, the child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven.
الصفحة 340 - Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask and antique pageantry; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.
الصفحة 212 - O guide us, when our faithless hearts From Thee would start aloof, Where Patience her sweet skill imparts Beneath some cottage roof: Revive our dying fires, to burn High as her anthems soar, And of our scholars let us learn Our own forgotten lore.
الصفحة 301 - Then opened wide the baron's hall To vassal, tenant, serf, and all; Power laid his rod of rule aside, And Ceremony doffed his pride. The heir, with roses in his shoes, That night might village partner choose; The lord, underogating, share The vulgar game of
الصفحة 114 - Angler t' a Fool is next neighbour!' Let him prate! What care we! We're as honest as he! And so, let him take that for his labour!
الصفحة 287 - And well, with ready hand and heart, Each task of toilsome duty taking, Did one dear inmate take her part, The last asleep, the earliest waking'.
الصفحة 1 - Sin no more." Return, and in thy daily round Of duty and of love, Thou best wilt find that patient faith, Which lifts the soul above. In every innocent prayer, each child Lisps at his father's knee : — If thine has been to teach that prayer, There will be hope for thee. There is a small white church, that stands Beside thy father's grave, There kneel and pour those earnest prayers That sanctify and save.
الصفحة 17 - When as no more I find. Henceforth I banish thee my court, Thou art no child of mine ; Nor any part of this my realm By favour shall be thine. Thy elder sisters...
الصفحة 1 - M quiet, steady, useful girl, finding her chief pleasure in nursing and teaching her brothers and sisters, and her chief annoyance in her mamma's attempts to make her a fine lady ; but before she had reached her nineteenth year she had learnt to know real anxiety and sorrow.