Marjorie Fleming: A Sketch; Being the Paper Entitled "Pet Marjorie: a Story of Child-life Fifty Years Ago."

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J.R. Osgood and Company, 1873 - 47 стор.
 

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Сторінка 37 - WHY am I loth to leave this earthly scene ! Have I so found it full of pleasing charms ! Some drops of joy with draughts of ill between: Some gleams of sunshine mid renewing storms : Is it departing pangs my soul alarms?
Сторінка 15 - Thou art so exquisitely wild, 1 think of thee with many fears For what may be thy lot in future years. I thought of times when Pain might be thy guest, Lord of thy house and hospitality ; And Grief, uneasy lover ! never rest But when she sate within the touch of thee. O too industrious folly ! O vain and causeless melancholy ! Nature will either end thee quite ; Or, lengthening out thy season of delight, Preserve for thee, by individual right, A young lamb's heart among the full-grown flocks.
Сторінка 21 - I am now going to tell you the horible and wretched plaege (plague) that my multiplication gives me you can't conceive it the most Devilish thing is 8 times 8 and 7 times 7 it is what nature itself cant endure.
Сторінка 19 - Crakyhall (Craigiehall) hand in hand in Innocence and matitation (meditation) sweet thinking on the kind love which flows in our tender hearted mind which is overflowing with majestic pleasure no one was ever so polite to me in the hole state of my existence. Mr. Craky you must know is a great Buck and pretty good-looking.
Сторінка 36 - I am afraid not every week. I long for you with the longings of a child to embrace you — to fold you in my arms. I respect you with all the respect due to a mother. You dont know how I love you. So I shall remain, your loving child — M. FLEMING.
Сторінка 32 - This last word is saved from all sin by its tender age, not to speak of the want of the n. We fear " she " is the abandoned mother, in spite of her previous sighs and tears. "Isabella says when we pray we should pray fervently, and not rattel over a prayer — for that we are kneeling at the footstool...
Сторінка 47 - They set as sets the morning star, which goes Not down behind the darkened west, nor hide« Obscured among the tempests of the sky, But melts away into the light of heaven.
Сторінка 11 - Hoot, awa ! look here," and he displayed the corner of his plaid, made to hold lambs, — the true shepherd's plaid, consisting of two breadths sewed together, and uncut at one end, making a poke or cul de sac. " Tak
Сторінка 15 - LOVING she is, and tractable, though wild ; And innocence hath privilege in her To dignify arch looks and laughing eyes ; And feats of cunning ; and the pretty round Of trespasses, affected to provoke Mock-chastisement and partnership in play.
Сторінка 15 - Even so this happy Creature of herself Is all-sufficient ; solitude to her Is blithe society, who fills the air With gladness and involuntary songs.

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