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... , by a calm and smiling death , at the early age of Nine Years , This little Volume is inscribed , with tender respect , by his once doating and now lamenting Mother , THE AUTHOR . " These are not words of course . " JOHN.
... , by a calm and smiling death , at the early age of Nine Years , This little Volume is inscribed , with tender respect , by his once doating and now lamenting Mother , THE AUTHOR . " These are not words of course . " JOHN.
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... early mower's scythe is sweeping down the nodding grass and fragrant clover . As he stops to whet the blunted edge , the sound floats musically on the breeze . It awakens the sluggard from his feverish sleep . Arouse . The sun has for ...
... early mower's scythe is sweeping down the nodding grass and fragrant clover . As he stops to whet the blunted edge , the sound floats musically on the breeze . It awakens the sluggard from his feverish sleep . Arouse . The sun has for ...
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... early walk shall give thee that most splendid of all natural scenes the rising sun . - See the grey clouds are deepening to purple .. The sky is gradually assuming a golden tint . From the east , the dawn suffuses with , increasing ...
... early walk shall give thee that most splendid of all natural scenes the rising sun . - See the grey clouds are deepening to purple .. The sky is gradually assuming a golden tint . From the east , the dawn suffuses with , increasing ...
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... early inured to control his little griefs , to silence his first plaints , became patient under un- kindness , and resigned under neglect ; He soon learnt to be independent of another's aid , He ran , he leapt , he danced , he 56 GOOD ...
... early inured to control his little griefs , to silence his first plaints , became patient under un- kindness , and resigned under neglect ; He soon learnt to be independent of another's aid , He ran , he leapt , he danced , he 56 GOOD ...
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... thy mind . Still mournful ! Hast thou exhausted Nature , or have her beauties lost their power to charm ? The grey - headed ancient who , from earliest boyhood to the latest hours of the longest life The Pleasures of Art.
... thy mind . Still mournful ! Hast thou exhausted Nature , or have her beauties lost their power to charm ? The grey - headed ancient who , from earliest boyhood to the latest hours of the longest life The Pleasures of Art.
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Page 99 - Happy the man - and happy he alone He who can call today his own, He who, secure within, can say 'Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of Fate are mine: Not Heaven itself upon the Past has power, But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
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