The Mountain Wild Flower: Or, Memoirs of Mrs. Mary Ann Bise, a Lady who Died at the Age of Twenty-three, in the Valley of the Green RiverE. French, 1838 - 243 páginas |
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... painful to record it , but the frost of death entered , and marred the scene . At this tender season , when Mary had just begun to twine her affections around her fond father's heart , and for- get her little sorrows on his bosom , " He ...
... painful to record it , but the frost of death entered , and marred the scene . At this tender season , when Mary had just begun to twine her affections around her fond father's heart , and for- get her little sorrows on his bosom , " He ...
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... painful attacks of illness , and also from a consciousness of her spiritual depravity , which she said pained her more ... pain , and her sufferings were often acute and distressing . But her sister has told me that she never heard a ...
... painful attacks of illness , and also from a consciousness of her spiritual depravity , which she said pained her more ... pain , and her sufferings were often acute and distressing . But her sister has told me that she never heard a ...
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... pain and suffering . But she gathered them all up , and consecrated them to the high and hallowed pur- poses of intellectual culture and advancement in holiness . After her mother had gone to sleep , she would extinguish the light , and ...
... pain and suffering . But she gathered them all up , and consecrated them to the high and hallowed pur- poses of intellectual culture and advancement in holiness . After her mother had gone to sleep , she would extinguish the light , and ...
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... pain - who was obliged to toil for her daily bread - who had no advantages which could have atoned for one of these features of privation ; by one who , when compelled to cease from labor , took up her pen -one whose young heart was ...
... pain - who was obliged to toil for her daily bread - who had no advantages which could have atoned for one of these features of privation ; by one who , when compelled to cease from labor , took up her pen -one whose young heart was ...
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... painful body , and anxious mind , that I write this . I am often obliged to drop my pen , and rest . My health and ... pain in my side and breast . I am very lonely , as there is no one here but mother . I received your affectionate ...
... painful body , and anxious mind , that I write this . I am often obliged to drop my pen , and rest . My health and ... pain in my side and breast . I am very lonely , as there is no one here but mother . I received your affectionate ...
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The Mountain Wild Flower: Or, Memoirs of Mrs. Mary Ann Bise, a Lady Who Died ... Charles Lester Sin vista previa disponible - 2018 |
The Mountain Wild Flower: Or, Memoirs of Mrs. Mary Ann Bise, a Lady Who Died ... C. Edwards 1815-1890 Lester Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
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Página 46 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Página 45 - Thy habitation from eternity! 0 dread and silent Mount! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought : entranced in prayer 1 worshipped the Invisible alone. Yet, like some sweet beguiling melody, So sweet, we know not we are listening to it...
Página 3 - WHEN breezes are soft and skies are fair, I steal an hour from study and care, And hie me away to the woodland scene, Where wanders the stream with waters of green, As if the bright fringe of herbs on its brink Had given their stain to the wave they drink ; And they, whose meadows it murmurs through, Have named the stream from its own fair hue.
Página 239 - COME, ye disconsolate ! where'er ye languish, Come to the mercy-seat, fervently kneel: Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish ; Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal. 2 Joy of the desolate, light of the straying, Hope of the penitent, fadeless and pure ! Here speaks the Comforter, tenderly saying, Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot cure.
Página 7 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn. Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Página 67 - My panting side was charged when I withdrew To seek a tranquil death in distant shades.^ There was I found by one who had himself Been hurt by the archers.
Página 49 - Acquaint thyself with God, if thou wouldst taste His works. Admitted once to his embrace, Thou shall perceive that thou wast blind before : Thine eye shall be instructed ; and thine heart, Made pure, shall relish with divine delight, Till then unfelt, what hands divine have wrought.
Página 97 - Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light 1 let him trust in the Name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.
Página 86 - God revealed his gracious name, * • And changed my mournful state, My rapture seemed a pleasing dream, The grace appeared so great. 2 The world beheld the glorious change, And did thy hand confess; My tongue broke out in unknown strains, And sung surprising grace. 3 " Great is the work !" my neighbors cried, And owned the power divine ;
Página 186 - And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep ; A shade that follows wealth or fame, But leaves the wretch to weep...