The Works of Anna Lætitia Barbauld: With a Memoir, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825 |
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... attention , as well as that of every one else , has been engaged lately by the affairs in France . We were much grati- fied a fortnight ago by seeing Lord Daer , who had been at Paris at the beginning of the com- VOL . II . G motions ...
... attention , as well as that of every one else , has been engaged lately by the affairs in France . We were much grati- fied a fortnight ago by seeing Lord Daer , who had been at Paris at the beginning of the com- VOL . II . G motions ...
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... attention I have always received from you . How good it was of you to invite Mr. Barbauld while I have been rambling ! I should have been more satisfied with being away if he had accepted your offer ; for I should have known then , that ...
... attention I have always received from you . How good it was of you to invite Mr. Barbauld while I have been rambling ! I should have been more satisfied with being away if he had accepted your offer ; for I should have known then , that ...
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... attention of polite circles , yet devoting her time and cares to her family and children - English delicacy , un- spoiled beauty , and unaffected sentiment , -when I think of these , ( and your friends will not be at a loss to guess ...
... attention of polite circles , yet devoting her time and cares to her family and children - English delicacy , un- spoiled beauty , and unaffected sentiment , -when I think of these , ( and your friends will not be at a loss to guess ...
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... who have most engaged the attention of London societies this year have been women : -Miss Edgeworth , Madame de Stael , and now the Duchess of Oldenburg , who shows , they say , a most rational and unsated curiosity . But 140.
... who have most engaged the attention of London societies this year have been women : -Miss Edgeworth , Madame de Stael , and now the Duchess of Oldenburg , who shows , they say , a most rational and unsated curiosity . But 140.
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... attention by desultory reading , and smooth the agitation of a ruffled mind with images of peace , tranquillity , and pleasure the idle and the gay relieve the listlessness of leisure , and diversify the round of life , by a rapid ...
... attention by desultory reading , and smooth the agitation of a ruffled mind with images of peace , tranquillity , and pleasure the idle and the gay relieve the listlessness of leisure , and diversify the round of life , by a rapid ...
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Page 244 - This day is called the feast of Crispian. He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when this day is named, And rouse him at the name of Crispian. He that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, And say "Tomorrow is Saint Crispian." Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, And say "These wounds I had on Crispin's day.
Page 431 - But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth; for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
Page 188 - But is it not some reproach upon the economy of Providence, that such a one, who is a mean dirty fellow, should have amassed wealth enough to buy half a nation ? ' Not in the least. He made himself a mean dirty fellow for that very end. He has paid his health, his conscience, his liberty for it; and will you envy him his bargain ? Will you hang your head and blush in his presence because he outshines you in equipage and show ? Lift up your brow with a noble confidence, and say to yourself, I have...
Page 430 - And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Page 134 - My DEAR FRIEND, — I was just going to write to you when I received your letter. I was waiting till I had got away from Concord. I should have sent you something for the " Dial " before, but I have been sick ever since I came here, rather unaccountably, — what with a cold, bronchitis, acclimation, etc., still unaccountably. I send you some verses from my journal which...
Page 26 - FAIR stood the wind for France When we our sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry; But putting to the main, At Caux, the mouth of Seine, With all his martial train, Landed King Harry.
Page 189 - And why can you not ? What hinders you from discarding this troublesome scrupulosity of yours which stands so grievously in your .way ? If it be a small thing to enjoy a healthful mind, sound at the very core, that does not shrink from the keenest inspection; inward freedom from remorse and perturbation; unsullied whiteness and simplicity of manners ; a genuine integrity, "Pure in the last recesses of the mind," — if you think these advantages an inadequate recompense -for what you resign, dismiss...
Page 413 - Ye chief, for whom the whole creation smiles, At once the head, the heart, and tongue of all, Crown...
Page 306 - This appears to me to have been generally misunderstood. Education, in its largest sense, is a thing of great scope and extent. It includes the whole process by which a human being is formed to be what he is, in habits, principles, and cultivation of every kind.