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At last the father said : “ We feel highly honored by your Majesty's proposal , but you see our daughter is a tender young thing , and we fear that in the vehemence of your affection you might possibly do her some injury .
At last the father said : “ We feel highly honored by your Majesty's proposal , but you see our daughter is a tender young thing , and we fear that in the vehemence of your affection you might possibly do her some injury .
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I feel myself then stripped and empty , like a convalescent who remembers nothing . My travels , my reading , my studies , my projects , my hopes , have faded from my mind . It is a singular state . All my faculties drop away from me ...
I feel myself then stripped and empty , like a convalescent who remembers nothing . My travels , my reading , my studies , my projects , my hopes , have faded from my mind . It is a singular state . All my faculties drop away from me ...
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One feels oneself cut off from nature , - outside her communion as it were . She is strength and joy and eternal health . eternal health . “ Room for the living , " she cries to us ; " do not come to darken my blue sky with your ...
One feels oneself cut off from nature , - outside her communion as it were . She is strength and joy and eternal health . eternal health . “ Room for the living , " she cries to us ; " do not come to darken my blue sky with your ...
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for mere cold ; yes , it was enough to make one feel cold to think of this . The poor little Duckling certainly had not a good time . One evening - the sun was just setting in his beauty - there came a whole flock of great handsome ...
for mere cold ; yes , it was enough to make one feel cold to think of this . The poor little Duckling certainly had not a good time . One evening - the sun was just setting in his beauty - there came a whole flock of great handsome ...
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In such moments it had a feeling that it , too , would be remembered . “ There was that handsome young man - it is certainly a long while ago - he had a letter on pink paper with a gilt edge . It was so prettily written , as if by a ...
In such moments it had a feeling that it , too , would be remembered . “ There was that handsome young man - it is certainly a long while ago - he had a letter on pink paper with a gilt edge . It was so prettily written , as if by a ...
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| Title | The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Greatest Writers Volume 1 of The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, John Lawson Stoddard |
| Author | John Lawson Stoddard |
| Compiled by | John Lawson Stoddard |
| Publisher | G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 |
| Original from | University of Chicago |
| Digitized | 7 May 2015 |
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