Oracles from the poets: a fanciful diversion for the drawing-room (1854)
Gilman, Caroline Howard, 1794-1888, ed · New York, Clark, Austin & Smith · leaf 13
red to me that I might avail myself of this love of the mysterious, for the intellectual enjoyment of my family circle. Instead, however, of the pastime of a few days, it has been the work of every leisure moment for | six months. The first movement was the pebble thrown into the stream ; circle…
Fortune-telling · Amusements · Quotations, English
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