Miss Esperance and Mr. WycherlyScribner, 1908 - 327 páginas "...the story of of a lovely old lady in a back-water English village who possesses a wealth of unapplied motherliness, which as opportunity offers, she puts into use. The chief of her protégés is a gentle scholar who confessed to a pathetic weakness for the bottle, and whose broken life she undertook to strengthen. Two little boys, kinsmen to Miss Esperance, being orphaned, also are confided to her care, and the middle-aged bachelor with shattered ambitions and the elderly woman with unsatisfied affections devote themselves to making fine, manly fellows of these two"--Review in The Book Buyer, November, 1908. |
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Página 134 - I have done so neither by chance nor without some reason, I will now declare at large, why, in mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.
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Página 33 - Come to me, O ye children ! And whisper in my ear What the birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. For what are all our contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your caresses, And the gladness of your looks ? Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said ; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead.
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