 ... crossed under it. When she spoke of a soldier, it was in a style above her usual simplicity ; there was a sort of swell in her language, which sometimes a tear (for her age had not lost the privilege of tears) made still more eloquent. She kept her...  The Miscellaneous Works of Henry Mackenzie - Page 232by Henry Mackenzie - 1820Full view - About this book
 | Henry Mackenzie - Benevolence - 1928 - 224 pages
...tears) made Still more eloquent. She kept her sorrows, like the devotions that solaced them, sacred to herself. They threw nothing of gloom over her deportment,...the fleckered clouds of summer, that increase, not diminish, the benignity of the season. And if space allowed, one might quote, as an example of his... | |
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