 | James Alexander Roy - 1914 - 196 σελίδες
...have just quoted, " could not have furnished you with a present so acceptable to me as the picture you have so kindly sent me. I received it the night before...dear original presented herself to my embraces. ... I remember, too, a multitude of the maternal tendernesses which I received from her, and which have endeared... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1921 - 438 σελίδες
...as fondly on the cherished features as if he had just mourned her death. " I viewed it," he says, " with a trepidation of nerves and spirits somewhat...kissed it, and hung it where it is the last object I see at night, and of course the first on which I open my eyes in the morning." His lines " On the... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1921 - 444 σελίδες
...dear original presented herself to my embraces. I kissed it, and hung it where it is the last object I see at night, and of course the first on which I open my eyes in the morning." His lines " On the Receipt of My Mother's Picture " form one of the most touching elegies in the language.... | |
 | William Cowper - 2003 - 124 σελίδες
...The world could not have furnished you with a present so acceptable to me, as the picture which you have so kindly sent me. I received it the night before...the dear original presented herself to my embraces. . . . She died when I completed my sixth year; yet I remember her well, and am an ocular witness of... | |
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The world could not have furnished you with a present so acceptable to me, as the picture which you have so kindly sent me. I received it the night before last, and viewed it with a trepidation of nerves and spirits somewhat akin to what I should have... 
