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... things and events of greater import hang about my heart , or crowd upon my memory . I have lived in won- derful times , and seen what the past would have rejected , had it been foretold by the voice of prophecy , and to which the future ...
... things and events of greater import hang about my heart , or crowd upon my memory . I have lived in won- derful times , and seen what the past would have rejected , had it been foretold by the voice of prophecy , and to which the future ...
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... things have become new , men do not seem to understand how they mock and contradict themselves , by talking as if they still held by the shadows of the past ; while , in reality , they grasp , and are with , and of , the realities of ...
... things have become new , men do not seem to understand how they mock and contradict themselves , by talking as if they still held by the shadows of the past ; while , in reality , they grasp , and are with , and of , the realities of ...
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... thing , both ungentle and unquiet ; a snappish , fidgetty sort of little woman , never entertaining more than one idea per week , which she wore thoroughly out before she had done with it , and without 8 A WOMAN'S STORY .
... thing , both ungentle and unquiet ; a snappish , fidgetty sort of little woman , never entertaining more than one idea per week , which she wore thoroughly out before she had done with it , and without 8 A WOMAN'S STORY .
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... things of the present day ) punctually ; and gave a pound each , at Christmas , to furnish the poor of the district with coals and blankets -it was only at that period of the year Mrs. Lyndsey suffered the idea of poverty to enter ...
... things of the present day ) punctually ; and gave a pound each , at Christmas , to furnish the poor of the district with coals and blankets -it was only at that period of the year Mrs. Lyndsey suffered the idea of poverty to enter ...
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... things , however much they neglect greater - I feared I might be transferred from her ostentatious visiting- book into her black book , and was driving my pony leisurely up the hill to pay my debt , when I espied Jerry on his ghostly ...
... things , however much they neglect greater - I feared I might be transferred from her ostentatious visiting- book into her black book , and was driving my pony leisurely up the hill to pay my debt , when I espied Jerry on his ghostly ...
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beauty became believe better bless called changed child close Cobb considered continued creature dear desire dress entered expected expression eyes face fancy father fear feeling felt Florence gave girl give hand happy head hear heard heart Helen hope horse hour husband idea imagine inquired interest Jerry keep kind knew lady leave less lived look Lyndsey Lyndsey's Major manner Marley matter means Middleton mind Miss Jane morning mother nature never night observed once opened passed perhaps person poor questions remember repeat replied round Saunders seemed seen servant side smile sort speak spoken suffered sure talk tears tell things thought tion told tone trouble truth turned usual voice waited walked watch window wish woman wonder write young
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Página 1 - The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality ; Another race hath been, and other palms are won. Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears ; To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Página 189 - Thus star by star declines Till all are passed away, As morning high and higher shines To pure and perfect day : Nor sink those stars in empty night ; They hide themselves in heaven's own light.
Página 31 - We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Página 210 - Forlorn ! the very word is like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self ! Adieu ! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is famed to do, deceiving elf.
Página 59 - As if round thy hush'd infant's bed ! And when thou speak'st, thy melting tone. That tells thy heart is all my own, Sounds sweeter, from the lapse of years, With the wife's love, the mother's fears ! By thy glad youth, and tranquil prime Assured, I smile at hoary time ! For thou art doom'd in age to know The calm that wisdom steals from woe ; The holy pride of high intent, The glory of a life well spent.
Página 168 - The breaking of the summer's morn — The tinge on house and tree — The billowy clouds — the beauty born Of that celestial sea, The freshness of the faery land Lit by the golden gleam .... It is my youth that where I stand Comes back as in a dream.
Página 239 - And all the glow of beaming sympathy ; Anxious to watch the cold averted ray That speaks no more to the fond meeting eye Enchanting tales of love, and tenderness, and joy. Too faithful heart ! thou never canst retrieve Thy withered hopes : conceal the cruel pain...
Página 261 - ... its flow, to be Like candour, peace, and piety. When life began its brilliant dream, His heart was like his native stream ; The wave-shrined gems could scarcely seem Less hidden than each wish it knew : Its life flow'd on as calmly, too ; And heaven shielded it from sin, To see itself reflected in. He stood beside that stream again, When years had fled in strife and pain ; He look'd for its calm course in vain, — For storms profaned its peaceful flow, And clouds o'erhung its crystal brow ;...
Página 11 - Lyndsey evinced some interest in a stout-built, heavy cob, ' equal to sixteen stone,' that had never warmed into a gallop in its life, and spent much of his time in the stable — always observing to Jerry Leary, an old Irish groom who had lived with his father, that he would ' back Brown Bob against any ' bit of blood