The Select Works of Mrs. Ellis: Comprising the Women of England, Wives of England, Daughters of England, Poetry of Life, &c., Designed to Promote the Cultivation of the Domestic VirtuesJ. & H. G. Langley, 1843 |
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... taste , and still more frequently in house- hold avocations , now fallen into disuse from their incompatibility with modern refinement . I cannot speak with unqualified praise of all the objects on which they bestowed their attention ...
... taste , and still more frequently in house- hold avocations , now fallen into disuse from their incompatibility with modern refinement . I cannot speak with unqualified praise of all the objects on which they bestowed their attention ...
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... taste , good sense , and good feeling , especially with that feeling which leads the mind from self and selfish motives , into an habitual regard to the good and happiness of others . The more we reflect upon the subject , the more we ...
... taste , good sense , and good feeling , especially with that feeling which leads the mind from self and selfish motives , into an habitual regard to the good and happiness of others . The more we reflect upon the subject , the more we ...
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... taste and delicacy of feeling , which affords the surest evidence of delicacy of mind ; a quality without which no woman ever was , or ever will be , charm- ing . Let her appear in company with what accomplishments she may , let her ...
... taste and delicacy of feeling , which affords the surest evidence of delicacy of mind ; a quality without which no woman ever was , or ever will be , charm- ing . Let her appear in company with what accomplishments she may , let her ...
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... taste for her guide . Good taste is therefore most essential to the regula- tion of her dress and general appearance ; and wherever any striking violation of this principle appears , the beholder is immediate- ly impressed with the idea ...
... taste for her guide . Good taste is therefore most essential to the regula- tion of her dress and general appearance ; and wherever any striking violation of this principle appears , the beholder is immediate- ly impressed with the idea ...
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... taste , it is not the least striking , that all the daughters of trades - people , when sent to school , are no longer girls , but young ladies . The linen - draper whose worthy consort oc- cupies her daily post behind the counter , re ...
... taste , it is not the least striking , that all the daughters of trades - people , when sent to school , are no longer girls , but young ladies . The linen - draper whose worthy consort oc- cupies her daily post behind the counter , re ...
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Страница 83 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast- weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Страница 130 - Entreat me not to leave thee or to return from following after thee, for. whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge. Thy people shall be my people and thy God my God. Where thou diest will I die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Страница 159 - Some heavenly music, (which even now I do,) To work mine end upon their senses, that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And, deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book.
Страница 133 - I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
Страница 135 - When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, When he separated the sons of Adam, He set the bounds of the people According to the number of the children of Israel. For the LORD'S portion is his people ; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
Страница 165 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
Страница 165 - His presence ; ever to observe His providence ; and on Him sole depend, Merciful over all His works, with good Still overcoming evil, and by small Accomplishing great things, by things...
Страница 135 - Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed : thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation.
Страница 42 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Страница 44 - You are my true and honourable wife, As dear to me as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart.