| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1821 - 624 pages
...prose narrative, « that she did not sit up two nights to do the business that was * necessary.' « And well, with ready hand and heart, Each task of toilsome duty taking, Did one dear inmate play her part, The last asleep, the earliest waking. Her hands each nightly couch prepared, And frugal... | |
| Joanna Baillie - 1821 - 418 pages
...might be, In crowded city pent, They lived with mind and bodv free In grateful, quiet content. XXXI. And well, with ready hand and heart, Each task of toilsome duty taking, Bid one dear inmate play her part, The last asleep, the earliest waking. Her hands each nightly couch... | |
| Joanna Baillie - 1821 - 420 pages
...with a life and sweetness in her eyes very uncommon, and great delicacy in all her features." NOTE XI. And well, with ready hand and heart, Each task of toilsome duty talcing. — P. 233. Lady M.'s Nar. — " All the time they were there (Holland), there was not a week... | |
| Joanna Baillie - 1832 - 584 pages
...with a life and sweetness in her eyes very uncommon, and great delicacy in all her features." NOTE XI. And well, with ready hand and heart, Each task of toilsome duty taking. — P. 539. Lady M.'s Nar. — " All the time they were there (Holland,) there was not a week my mother... | |
| John Aikin - 1838 - 796 pages
...Though hard their alter'd lot might be, In crowded city pent, They lived with mind and body free XXXI. livelier than bcwilder'd traveller feels Amid a perilous waste, that all night long Hath h play her part, The last asleep, the earliest waking. Her hands each nightly couch prepared, And frugal... | |
| John Aikin - 1838 - 750 pages
...might be, In crowded city pent, They lived with mind and hody free In grateful, quiet content. XXXI. And well, with ready hand and heart, Each task of toilsome duty taking, Did one dear inmate play her part, The last asleep, the earliest waking. Her hands each nightly couch prepared, And frugal... | |
| John Aikin, John Frost - 1838 - 752 pages
...XXXI. And well, with ready hand and heart, Each task of toilsome duty taking, Did one dear inmate piny orious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. But pleasures arc like poppies spread, You se frugat meal on which they fared : Unfolding spread the servet white, And deck'd the hoard with tankard... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1842 - 412 pages
...reading it last winter to papa. Oh, mamma! do you remember the diverting part about the sheep's head ? 1 will show it to you, Harry ; lend me the book for...they fared ; Unfolding spread the servet white, And decked the board with tankard bright. Through fretted hose, and garment rent, Her tiny needle deftly... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1842 - 414 pages
...did when she was a young girl. I am sure Harry would like that, though it is poetry." " Shall I try V said her mother. " I think I can remember the lines...couch prepared, And frugal meal on which they fared ; Cnfolding spread the servet white, And decked the board with tankard bright. * Metrical Legends,... | |
| Jottings - 1847 - 378 pages
...her home, where she was likely to learn nothing but what was bad. CHAPTER XXIV. LOVE'S LABOUR LOST. " And well, with ready hand and heart, Each task of...take her part, The last asleep, the earliest waking." IN the course of the afternoon, Lord Rotherwood and Florence called to see Eleanor, enquire after Ada,... | |
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