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- Collection: 1840
The Beauty of Soninberg. A Letter from Wiesbaden.
Tags: "God Soul and World", 1840, aqueduct, artisans, As You Like It, beauty, blindness, Carisbrook lions, Dogs, donkeys, Duke of Nassau, eye-disease, Falstaff, filial piety, Frankfurt, Geisberg, Germany, Goethe, Héloïse, Isaac, Kursaal Gardens, letters, Marksburg, Mothers, New York, old maid, Old World, peasants, Rebecca, Rhine, Schwalbach, servant, Shakespeare, Soninberg, Taunus Hills, The Evergreen, Thomas Cole, tourism, Travel, wells, Wiesbaden
Marietza
Tags: 1840, Alexandria, captives, Chios, Christians, Constantinople, daughters, Death, Egypt, Englishmen, execution, Faith, girls, Good Samaritan, Greece, Greek Independence, Greek Orthodox, hostages, Houri, infidels, Jews, Juvenile fiction, London, marriage, massacre, Mohammed, Mothers, Muslims, Oriental, Ottoman Empire, Pacha, patriots, plague, Prophet, revolution, Romaika, Roman Catholic, Scios, Sir Walter Scott, Smyrna, sons, Stories for Young Persons, Turks, war, White Lady of Avenel
The Deformed Boy
Tags: 1840, 4th of July, abandonment, Aeolus, Aladdin's lamp, almshouse, Apollo, benevolence, Benjamin Franklin, boyhood, charity, Christianity, Consumption, Cotton Mather, deathbed, deformity, fairy, Fortunatus' cap, funeral, gender roles, girls-work, God, gratitude, H. Gally Knight, Honesty, Independence Day, intemperance, juvenile literature, knitting, laudanum, literacy, Magnalia Christi Americana, marriage, Midas, Mothers, orphans, Ovid, philosopher's stone, poverty, prayer, Proverbs 30:24, Psalm 103, public assistance, public education, rickets, self reliance, sewing, shame, shopkeeper, sons, star-spangled banner, Stories for Young Persons, tears, virtue, widows
Eighteen Hundred Thirty-Eight's Farewell
Tags: "language of flowers", "pro omnibus vera", "The Garland of Flora", 1840, affection, candor, candour, chicken-heartedness, Christmas, Christmas tree, conscience, deference, diligence, disinterestedness, elevation, faults, fidelity, flowers, frankness, generosity, ghosts, girlhood, girls, gratitude, hardiness, humility, imperturbableness, irritableness, Juvenile fiction, lovingness, magnanimity, modesty, New Year's Day, New Year's eve, old women, refinement, religion, resolution, school, secrets, simplicity, Stories for Young Persons, tenderness, truth, virtue