 And well, with ready hand and heart, Each task of toilsome duty taking, Did one dear inmate take her part, The last asleep, the earliest waking'. Her hands each nightly couch prepared, And frugal meal on which they fared ; Unfolding spread the servet...  Harry and Lucy: with Other Tales - Page 384by Maria Edgeworth - 1842Full view - About this book
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...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... | |
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 | Joanna Baillie - English poetry - 1821 - 420 pages
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 | Maria Edgeworth - Architecture - 1825 - 352 pages
...me the book for one minute. But this is not the same book you had," continued she ; " that was a 332 poem*, and there were notes to it. Here is no poetry...they fared ; Unfolding spread the servet white, And deck'd the board with tankard bright. Through fretted hose, and garment rent, Her tiny needle deftly... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - Didactic fiction - 1825 - 662 pages
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...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 - English poetry - 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... | |
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