Rose in Bloom: A Sequel to "Eight Cousins"Whitman Publishing Company, 1877 - 375 Seiten |
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added admiration Annabel answered Mac answered Rose anxious Archie asked Rose Aunt Clara Aunt Jane Aunt Jessie Aunt Plenty beautiful began better Birks of Aberfeldy Campbell Charlie Charlie's comfort cousin creature cried Rose dance dear delight doctor eyes face fancy feel fellow felt forget Fra Angelico friends gave Geordie girl give glad glance gone hand happy hard head heart hope Jamie keep Kitty knew lady late laughed lover Mac's mind Miss Bliss never nosegay Phebe poor porringer pretty Prince Charming promise proud ready Rose looked Rose's round seemed smile somest soon sort soul Steve stood sudden sure sweet talk tell tender thank things thought told tone took turn Ugly Duckling Uncle Alec Uncle Mac voice waiting whispered wish woman wonder word young
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Seite 221 - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Seite 35 - Tax not my sloth that I Fold my arms beside the brook; Each cloud that floated in the sky Writes a letter in my book. Chide me not, laborious band, For the idle flowers I brought; Every aster in my hand Goes home loaded with a thought.
Seite 286 - Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Seite 288 - Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.
Seite 285 - I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Seite 286 - Whate'er we leave to God, God does, And blesses us; The work we choose should be our own, God lets alone. If with light head erect I sing, Though all the muses lend their force, From my poor love of anything, The verse is weak and shallow as its source. But if with bended neck I grope, Listening behind me for my wit, With faith superior to hope, More anxious to keep back than forward it, Making...
Seite 327 - In this pleasing contrite wood-life which God allows me, let me record day by day my honest thought without prospect or retrospect, and, I cannot doubt, it will be found symmetrical, though I mean it not and see it not. My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.
Seite 69 - TWAS on a Monday morning Richt early in the year, That Charlie cam' to our toun, The young Chevalier. And Charlie he's my darling, My darling, my darling; Charlie he's my darling, The young Chevalier ! As he was walking up the street, The city for to view, Oh, there he spied a bonny lass The window looking through. Say licht's he jumped up the stair, And tirled at the pin; And wha sae ready as hersel
Seite 11 - Would you be contented to be told to enjoy yourself for a little while, then marry and do nothing more till you die?