Romance and reality, by L.E.L. |
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... taste for weeding , watering , & c . , still , the garden , connected as it was with his kindness and approval , became a sufficient mo- tive for exertion ; and our fair gardener bestowed a degree of pains and industry on the culture of ...
... taste for weeding , watering , & c . , still , the garden , connected as it was with his kindness and approval , became a sufficient mo- tive for exertion ; and our fair gardener bestowed a degree of pains and industry on the culture of ...
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... taste and selection . The profusion of luxuriant creepers were twisted and clipped , with a regularity that would have done honour to any nursery ground . There were more rare , and fewer beautiful flowers than formerly ; and , thanks ...
... taste and selection . The profusion of luxuriant creepers were twisted and clipped , with a regularity that would have done honour to any nursery ground . There were more rare , and fewer beautiful flowers than formerly ; and , thanks ...
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... taste or habit — and all these things so much more deeply felt when no long illness has already thrown events out of their usual circle , already broken in upon all old accustomed ways . When he who is now departed was amongst us but ...
... taste or habit — and all these things so much more deeply felt when no long illness has already thrown events out of their usual circle , already broken in upon all old accustomed ways . When he who is now departed was amongst us but ...
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... Each , therefore , aided the other in guiding the dialogue to general subjects of taste , blent with a little tone of sentiment . Imperceptibly the morning slipped away . Mr. Stanmore came in 40 ROMANCE AND REALITY .
... Each , therefore , aided the other in guiding the dialogue to general subjects of taste , blent with a little tone of sentiment . Imperceptibly the morning slipped away . Mr. Stanmore came in 40 ROMANCE AND REALITY .
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... taste ; -- we give dinners , that our guests may hereafter find fault with our cook or our cellar ; we give parties , that three parts of the company may rail at their stupidity ; —we dress , that our acquaintance may revenge themselves ...
... taste ; -- we give dinners , that our guests may hereafter find fault with our cook or our cellar ; we give parties , that three parts of the company may rail at their stupidity ; —we dress , that our acquaintance may revenge themselves ...
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Страница 209 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring. Or chasms and wat'ry depths ; all these have vanished They live no longer in the faith of reason...
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