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... Dear friend , " followed by dreary passages , and ending with words of affection do not consti- tute a letter ; and also that letters can not be written in cold blood . While all these things are true , it can not be claimed that the ...
... Dear friend , " followed by dreary passages , and ending with words of affection do not consti- tute a letter ; and also that letters can not be written in cold blood . While all these things are true , it can not be claimed that the ...
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... dear lit- tle girlie . I promised to write to you . You see I am keeping my word . I have seen the sea , some fine churches , and some pretty country . The sea is large , the churches are handsome , the country is pretty ; but the ...
... dear lit- tle girlie . I promised to write to you . You see I am keeping my word . I have seen the sea , some fine churches , and some pretty country . The sea is large , the churches are handsome , the country is pretty ; but the ...
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... Dear Little Marie : - Papa and Mamma can read this letter to you , as you can not read it yourself yet ; but only wait till this time four years ; ah , then you'll be able to read everything , I know . I am in the country now like you ...
... Dear Little Marie : - Papa and Mamma can read this letter to you , as you can not read it yourself yet ; but only wait till this time four years ; ah , then you'll be able to read everything , I know . I am in the country now like you ...
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... dear slender tall boy ! It seems so long that I am wondering if you have had time to grow as tall as my long - legged friend , Dr. C , who has to stoop in order to walk under our parlor chan- deliers . I suppose it is a very good thing ...
... dear slender tall boy ! It seems so long that I am wondering if you have had time to grow as tall as my long - legged friend , Dr. C , who has to stoop in order to walk under our parlor chan- deliers . I suppose it is a very good thing ...
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... dear Brother : - November 2 , 1828 . I am now going to tell you melancholy news . I have got the ague together with a gumbile . I pre- sume you know that September has got a lame leg , but he grows better every day and now is very well ...
... dear Brother : - November 2 , 1828 . I am now going to tell you melancholy news . I have got the ague together with a gumbile . I pre- sume you know that September has got a lame leg , but he grows better every day and now is very well ...
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affectionate answer Arbor Day autobiography beautiful birds boys Bryant BURROUGHS butterflies Cæsar Carlyle character Charles charm child Coriolanus COVENTRY PATMORE Cowper Dear Friend Dear Sir delightful Dionysius edited Edward Rowland Sill Emerson English father feel flowers FOLLOWING LETTERS G. W. Curtis GEORGE ELIOT GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS give glad heart honor hope horse imagine INDIANAPOLIS interest Ivanhoe James Russell Lowell JEFFERSON JOHN journal lady LETTER ASSIGNMENTS Lincoln live look Lydia Maria Child March Mary Mifflin mind Miss mother nature never noble permission of Houghton person picture pleasure poems poet Pythias ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Shortridge High School Sidney Lanier sincere story teacher tell Tennyson teresting thank things thought tion to-day trees truly Wamba Whittier wife William Cowper winter wish woman words Write a letter written young
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Page 99 - I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Page 6 - A SUBTLE chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings ; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose ; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.
Page 99 - Dear Madam: I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle.
Page 44 - I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead Nature. The lighted shops of the Strand and Fleet Street; the innumerable trades, tradesmen, and customers, coaches, waggons, playhouses; all the bustle and wickedness round about Covent Garden; the...
Page 152 - Thus he dwells in all, From life's minute beginnings, up at last To man — the consummation of this scheme Of being, the completion of this sphere Of life : whose attributes had here and there Been scattered o'er the visible world before, Asking to be combined, dim fragments meant To be united in some wondrous whole...
Page 63 - I have been lately informed by the proprietor of ' The World,' that two papers, in which my ' Dictionary ' is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind...
Page 63 - Is not a patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
Page 64 - I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a Patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Page 45 - Town, the watchmen, drunken scenes, rattles, — life awake, if you awake, at all hours of the night, the impossibility of being dull in Fleet Street, the crowds, the very dirt and mud, the sun shining upon houses and pavements, the...
Page 23 - ... lived in a shoe and had so many children she didn't know what to do," or that Jack climbed the beanstalk and found the giant who lived at the top of it.