Essays: First SeriesNational Home Library Foundation, 1932 - 172 pages |
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Page 93
... relations which make the beauty of his life , which have given him sincerest instruction and nourishment , he will shrink and shrink . Alas ! I know not why , but infinite compunctions embitter in mature life all the remembrances of ...
... relations which make the beauty of his life , which have given him sincerest instruction and nourishment , he will shrink and shrink . Alas ! I know not why , but infinite compunctions embitter in mature life all the remembrances of ...
Page 94
... relations , what with their fun and their earnest , about Edgar , and Jonas , and Almira , and who was invited to the party , and who danced at the dancing - school , and when the singing school would begin , and other nothings ...
... relations , what with their fun and their earnest , about Edgar , and Jonas , and Almira , and who was invited to the party , and who danced at the dancing - school , and when the singing school would begin , and other nothings ...
Page 98
... relations of friendship or love that society knows and has , but , as it seems to me , to a quite other and unattainable sphere , to relations of transcendent delicacy and sweetness , a true faerie land ; to what roses and violets hint ...
... relations of friendship or love that society knows and has , but , as it seems to me , to a quite other and unattainable sphere , to relations of transcendent delicacy and sweetness , a true faerie land ; to what roses and violets hint ...
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