The happy recovery, and other stories for the youngWilliam P. Nimmo, 1870 - 136 pages |
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... charming valley about five miles from Delphine's house . Picture to yourselves , my dear children , the indignation of the haughty , imperious Delphine , when she was conducted to the place destined for her use ! ' Where are you taking ...
... charming valley about five miles from Delphine's house . Picture to yourselves , my dear children , the indignation of the haughty , imperious Delphine , when she was conducted to the place destined for her use ! ' Where are you taking ...
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... charming butterfly ; its wings looked beautiful in the morning's sun . She proposed to Delphine that they should try and catch it . Then they both ran and chased the lovely insect . Henrietta , who was the more active , ran first and ...
... charming butterfly ; its wings looked beautiful in the morning's sun . She proposed to Delphine that they should try and catch it . Then they both ran and chased the lovely insect . Henrietta , who was the more active , ran first and ...
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... charming child . Henrietta received all these praises with great modesty , and attributed all her worth to her mother . ' Without your tender care I should never have de- served the happiness I feel this day . Oh ! mamma , continue to ...
... charming child . Henrietta received all these praises with great modesty , and attributed all her worth to her mother . ' Without your tender care I should never have de- served the happiness I feel this day . Oh ! mamma , continue to ...
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... charm- ing , and we will have such a lot of fruit this sum- mer ! ' Tell my nurse that I will never pinch her again ... charming reply to her letter , and her mamma , instead of grant- ing an annuity of fifty crowns for the old woman ...
... charm- ing , and we will have such a lot of fruit this sum- mer ! ' Tell my nurse that I will never pinch her again ... charming reply to her letter , and her mamma , instead of grant- ing an annuity of fifty crowns for the old woman ...
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... charm- ing valley ; the exquisite view , the taste displayed on everything for her use , quite enchanted her . ' Tell me , ' said she to Madam Steinhausse , ' why this little room possesses so many charms for me , and why I was never ...
... charm- ing valley ; the exquisite view , the taste displayed on everything for her use , quite enchanted her . ' Tell me , ' said she to Madam Steinhausse , ' why this little room possesses so many charms for me , and why I was never ...
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Agatha agreeable amuse asked astonished beauty bound in cloth carriage Catau charming child cloth extra Count Amilly cow-house daughter dear Ambrose delighted Delphine received Delphine's doctor Doralice and Eglantine Doralice's dress Eglantine's Eugenie faults Fcap feel felt gave gilt edges give governess gratitude hand handsome happy heart Henrietta hope Illustrated indolent knew lake of Geneva large fortune leave Leonce lessons listened little girl live looked lost Madam de Varonne Madam Steinhausse Madame Palmene mamma masters mistress months Morges mother Myrtle ness never Nichol night NIMMO'S old woman OLIVER GOLDSMITH Paris passed phine Pilgrim's Progress pleasure Poetical poor Ambrose poor woman possessed replied RICHARD NEWTON ROBERT BURNS saying servant soon speak Susan Switzerland talents tears tell thought threw told toned paper took Valentine Varonne's Vicar of Wakefield Viscount walk wish worthy young lady
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Page 129 - Of all the handsome reprints of the works of " nature's own " bard, this "Edina" edition of the Poems and Songs of Burns is perhaps the handsomest yet produced. Beautifully printed, and profusely illustrated by some of the most distinguished of the Scotch academicians, it forms a shrine worthy of the genius of the " poet of the land of the mountain and the flood.
Page 129 - It is, as might be expected, Scottish in every respect, — printer, publisher, and illustrators; and as also we think it should ; for with whom could it be so much a labour of love to produce a first-rate edition as with one of Burns's own countrymen ? and who should be better able to illustrate the "brown heath and shaggy wood" of Scotia's scenery than her own sons?