Mothers in CouncilHarper, 1884 - 194 páginas |
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Abingdon accuracy ADVENTURES asked Berkeley better body boys character chil child Cloth club cold bath comfort continued cook cultivated daughters discussion dren duties essay experience Faerie Queene fairy FAIRY TALES father feel Follen friends girls give habit happy Hargrove heart HENRY MAYHEW Hollins hour house-keeper household husband Illustrated interest JACOB ABBOTT JAMES OTIS JOSEPH BONAPARTE keep labor lady less lesson lives lustrated MADAME ROLAND MARGARET OF ANJOU meeting memory ment mind mother never nurse obedience old maids ourselves paper parents perhaps pleasant pleasure PORTLAND FIRE question remarked replied Robin Green SAMUEL SMILES seems servants sewing Sharpe story sugar Sunday-school sure sweet sympathy teach teachers things thought tion TOBY TYLER true truth wish woman women words young
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Página 136 - if thou well observe The rule of not too much, by temperance taught, In what thou eat'st and drink'st, seeking from thence Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight...
Página 190 - BETWEEN the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour. I hear in the chamber above me The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet. From my study I see in the lamplight, Descending the broad hall stair, Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, And Edith with golden hair. A whisper, and then a silence : Yet I know by...
Página 191 - Sooner the sun from his high sphere should sink Than we, ungrateful, leave thee in that day, To pine in solitude thy life away, Or shun thee, tottering on the grave's cold brink. Banish the thought ! — where'er our steps may roam, O'er smiling plains, or wastes without a tree, Still will fond memory point our hearts to thee, And paint the pleasures of thy peaceful home While duty bids us all thy griefs assuage, And smooth the pillow of thy sinking age.
Página 117 - Death is the crown of life. Were death denied, poor man would live in vain ; Were death denied, to live would not be life ; Were death denied, even fools would wish to die. Death wounds to cure : we fall, we rise, we reign : Spring from our fetters ; fasten in the skies; Where blooming Eden withers in our sight : Death gives us more than was in Eden lost. This king of terrors is the prince of peace.
Página 93 - A servant with this clause makes drudgery divine; who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, makes that and the action fine.
Página 117 - WHAT are we set on earth for ? Say, to toil; Nor seek to leave thy tending of the vines For all the heat o' the day, till it declines, And Death's mild curfew shall from work assoil. God did anoint thee with his odorous oil, To wrestle, not to reign; and He assigns All thy tears over, like pure crystallines, For younger fellow-workers of the soil To wear for amulets.