Mrs. Leicester's School: The Histories of Several Young Ladies, Related by ThemselvesGrant and Griffith, successors to Newbery and Harris, St. Paul's Churchyard, 1848 - 118 pàgines |
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Pàgina 19 - HOW doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower...
Pàgina 86 - I was almost the only being she felt any thing like fondness to, made me love her, as it was natural; indeed I am ashamed to say that I fear I almost loved her better than both my parents put together. But there was an oddness, a silence about my aunt, which was never interrupted but by her occasional expressions of love to me, that made me stand in fear of her. An odd look from under her spectacles would sometimes scare me away, when I had been peering up in her face to make her kiss me. Then she...
Pàgina 89 - Witches, which used to lie about in this closet : it was thumbed about, and shewed it had been much read in former times. This was my treasure. Here I used to pick out the strangest stories. My not being able to read them very well probably made them appear more strange and out of the way to me. But I could collect enough to understand that witches were old women who gave themselves up to do mischief ; — how, by the help of spirits as bad as themselves, they lamed cattle, and made the corn not...
Pàgina 20 - Sometimes I think of the good-natured pied cow that would let me stroke her while the dairy-maid was milking her. Then I fancy myself running after the dairy-maid into the nice clean dairy, and see the pans full of milk and cream. Then I remember the woodhouse ; it had once been a large barn, but being grown old, the wood was kept there. My sister and I used to peep about among the faggots, to find the eggs the hens sometimes left there. Birds' nests we might not look for. Grandmamma was very angry...
Pàgina 16 - I was four years old was the first that I recollect. On the morning of that day, as soon as I awoke, I crept into mamma's bed, and said, " Open your eyes, mamma, for it is my birthday. Open your eyes, and look at me !" Then mamma told me I should ride in a post-chaise, and see my grandmamma and my sister Sarah.
Pàgina 65 - I concluded that I must be a Mahometan, for I believed every word I read. At length I met with something which I also believed, though I trembled as I read it : — this was, that after we are dead, we are to pass over a narrow bridge, which crosses a bottomless gulf. The bridge was described to be no wider than a silken thread ; and it said, that all who were not Mahometans would slip on one side of this bridge, and drop into the tremendous gulf that had no bottom. I considered myself as a Mahometan,...
Pàgina 1 - I was born in the parsonage-house, which joins the churchyard. The first thing I can remember was my father teaching me the alphabet from the letters on a tombstone that stood at the head of my mother's grave. I used to tap at my father's study door ; I think I now hear him say, "Who is there? — What do you want, little girl?" "Go and see mamma. Go and learn pretty letters.
Pàgina 16 - Sarah. Grandmamma lived at a farm-house in the country, and I had never in all my life been out of London ; no, nor had I ever seen a bit of green grass, except in the Drapers...
Pàgina 59 - But I do not recollect she ever spoke to me during the remainder of the day ; except indeed after I had read the psalms and the chapters, which was my daily task; then she used constantly to observe, that I improved in my reading, and frequentlyadded,"! never heard a child read so distinctly.
Pàgina 13 - ... to each other when we are in a happier temper. But these things come over us like grievous faults when the object of our affection is gone for ever. Your dear mamma and I had no quarrels ; yet, in the first days of my lonely sorrow, how many things came into my mind that I might have done to have made her happier ! It is so with you, my child. You did all a child could do to please your uncle, and dearly did he love you...