Life in Sweden; with Excursions in Norway and Denmark, Volume 2Hurst and Blackett, 1853 - Scandinavia |
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... Queen , and should wait here , and have people come to seek you ? " " I have expected , certainly , to receive visits from those persons who , you told me , wished to make my acquaintance . " " But you did not go to visit them ; you ...
... Queen , and should wait here , and have people come to seek you ? " " I have expected , certainly , to receive visits from those persons who , you told me , wished to make my acquaintance . " " But you did not go to visit them ; you ...
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... Queen Christina , a son , of course , is wished for by all loyal Swedes ; and some of extra loyalty , say there will be two . We are kept in constant expectation ; whenever a gun is fired , ( and that so long as the water is open is ...
... Queen Christina , a son , of course , is wished for by all loyal Swedes ; and some of extra loyalty , say there will be two . We are kept in constant expectation ; whenever a gun is fired , ( and that so long as the water is open is ...
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... Queen . She came slowly along , dressed in a robe of crimson velvet , made very low in the neck , and with short sleeves ; a tiara of diamonds on her * Since this was written , a letter from a friend says , " You would have had a dull ...
... Queen . She came slowly along , dressed in a robe of crimson velvet , made very low in the neck , and with short sleeves ; a tiara of diamonds on her * Since this was written , a letter from a friend says , " You would have had a dull ...
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... Queen sometimes bowed her head , but never once raised her eyes from the slumbering face beneath them . The gentle Princess Eugenia , who is her father in a female form , came next ; and the old dowager Queen , with her old ladies and ...
... Queen sometimes bowed her head , but never once raised her eyes from the slumbering face beneath them . The gentle Princess Eugenia , who is her father in a female form , came next ; and the old dowager Queen , with her old ladies and ...
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... Queen is , bearing her grandchild to the baptismal font of a land in which her own religion is proscribed . All the grand assembly departed nearly in the same order , except that , in going out , the Queen was attended by Prince Gustaf ...
... Queen is , bearing her grandchild to the baptismal font of a land in which her own religion is proscribed . All the grand assembly departed nearly in the same order , except that , in going out , the Queen was attended by Prince Gustaf ...
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Page 301 - Hear the sledges with the bells — Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Page 336 - For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth; so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.