Life in Sweden; with Excursions in Norway and Denmark, Volume 2Hurst and Blackett, 1853 - Scandinavia |
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... wish for a bad Swedish winter , because I really wished to brave the terrors of what is here con- sidered a good one . My state is a dull , quiescent , and expectant one ; but all is activity and prepara- tion around me . Housewifes are ...
... wish for a bad Swedish winter , because I really wished to brave the terrors of what is here con- sidered a good one . My state is a dull , quiescent , and expectant one ; but all is activity and prepara- tion around me . Housewifes are ...
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... wishes me to do every- thing but what I want to do , and desires me to have everything but what I wish her to give me ; who contends it is ridiculous to think I should require a carpet under my feet , and asserts it is impossible I can ...
... wishes me to do every- thing but what I want to do , and desires me to have everything but what I wish her to give me ; who contends it is ridiculous to think I should require a carpet under my feet , and asserts it is impossible I can ...
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... wish to change his name to August . Then there was a little pause . And then the entry of more heralds , with varied - coloured high feathers , and pages and chamberlains , an- nounced the advance of the Queen . She came slowly along ...
... wish to change his name to August . Then there was a little pause . And then the entry of more heralds , with varied - coloured high feathers , and pages and chamberlains , an- nounced the advance of the Queen . She came slowly along ...
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... is our custom . The people will have it so , they like to see everything . To - morrow the young couple will give a great dinner party : they must do that , because their acquaintances will wish to see how they manage LIFE IN SWEDEN . 73.
... is our custom . The people will have it so , they like to see everything . To - morrow the young couple will give a great dinner party : they must do that , because their acquaintances will wish to see how they manage LIFE IN SWEDEN . 73.
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Selina Bunbury. because their acquaintances will wish to see how they manage their housekeeping when they first begin . " " O " I said : and I said no more . 75 CHAPTER V. WHEN the the snow first came , 74 LIFE IN SWEDEN .
Selina Bunbury. because their acquaintances will wish to see how they manage their housekeeping when they first begin . " " O " I said : and I said no more . 75 CHAPTER V. WHEN the the snow first came , 74 LIFE IN SWEDEN .
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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.