 She has a pale-gray, soul-lit eye, and hair as white as snow; a wintry sign that has come prematurely upon her, as like signs come upon us, while the year is yet fresh and undecayed. Her voice has a sweet, low tone, and her manner a naturalness, frankness,...  Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home - Page 15by Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1841Full view - About this book
 | United States - 1841 - 640 pages
...undecayed. Her voiee has a sweet, low tone, and her manner a naturalness, frankness, and arl'ectionateness, that we have been so long familiar with in their other...house into her garden, a perfect bouquet of flowers. ' 1 must show you inv geraniums while it is light,' she said. ' for I love them next to my father.'... | |
 | 1853 - 570 pages
...sweet, low tone, and her manner a naturalness, frankness, and affectionateness that we have so long been familiar with in their other modes of manifestation,...indeed, a disappointment not to have found them." — Miss SEDGWICK'S " Letters from Abroad." that " useless old beau," King Harwood. The description... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1853 - 536 pages
...sweet, low tone, and her manner a naturalness, frankness, and affectionateness that we have so long been familiar with in their other modes of manifestation,...indeed, a disappointment not to have found them." — Miss SEDOWICK'S "Letters Jrom Abroad." that "useless old beau," King Harwood. The description of... | |
 | 1853 - 614 pages
...sweet, low tone, and her manner a naturalness, frankness, and affectionateness that we have so long been familiar with in their other modes of manifestation,...would have been, indeed, a disappointment not to have founc them."— Mine S*DOwrat'a " Letters from Abroad. YOL. XXVUL NO. IV. sphere of observation from... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors, English - 1882 - 492 pages
...while the year is yet fresh and undecayed. Her voice has a sweet, low tone, and her manner a natural frankness and affectionateness that we have been so...been indeed a disappointment not to have found them. Miss SEDGWICK to Miss MITFORD. London, July 7, 1839. MY DEAR Miss MITFORD, — What a pleasure it is... | |
 | Helen Gray Cone, Jeannette Leonard Gilder - Authors, English - 1887 - 330 pages
...while the year is yet fresh and undecayed. Her voice has a sweet, low tone, and her manner a natural frankness and affectionateness that we have been so...light," she said, " for I love them next to my father." CATHARINE M. SEDGWICK : ' Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home.' New York : Harper & Bros., 1841.... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1904 - 812 pages
...magazines which all have a broad humour bordering on coarseness. She has a pale-gray, soul-lit eye, «nd hair as white as snow; a wintry sign that has come...she said, "for I love them next to my father."— SEDGWICK, CATHARINE M., 1839-41, Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home, vol. I, p. 46. None hath told... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 810 pages
...of her in the magazines which all have a broad humour bordering on coarseness. She has a pale-gray, soul-lit eye, and hair as white as snow; a wintry...light," she said, "for I love them next to my father." — SEDGWICK, CATHARINE M., 1839-41, Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home, vol. I, p. 46. None hath... | |
 | William James Roberts - Biography & Autobiography - 1913 - 448 pages
...beyond the narrow sphere of the most refined social life. . . . Miss M. is truly ' a little body,' and dressed a little quaintly, and as unlike as possible...been indeed a disappointment not to have found them. . . . The garden is filled, matted with flowering shrubs and vines ; the trees are wreathed with honeysuckles... | |
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