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... night , or whenever she awoke from her broken slum- bers , the recollection that she was dying , made Rosine melancholy ; but as the novelty of this very mournful feeling wore away , she became perfectly resigned and cheerful . Every ...
... night , or whenever she awoke from her broken slum- bers , the recollection that she was dying , made Rosine melancholy ; but as the novelty of this very mournful feeling wore away , she became perfectly resigned and cheerful . Every ...
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... night serene , Thy soft bells pealing.- But most I love thine azure braid , When softer flowers are all decay'd , And thou appearest , Stealing beneath the hedge - row shade , Like joys that linger as they fade , Whose last are dearest ...
... night serene , Thy soft bells pealing.- But most I love thine azure braid , When softer flowers are all decay'd , And thou appearest , Stealing beneath the hedge - row shade , Like joys that linger as they fade , Whose last are dearest ...
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... I hardly have had time to miss him ; I suppose he is not come home from the counting - house yet . " Florella whispered to Jeanie : " I can't bear to tell him to - night , when 5 fraid my dear father is unwell . He is 34 A MERCHANT'S SON .
... I hardly have had time to miss him ; I suppose he is not come home from the counting - house yet . " Florella whispered to Jeanie : " I can't bear to tell him to - night , when 5 fraid my dear father is unwell . He is 34 A MERCHANT'S SON .
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... night , " now Duncan is here ; he always keeps mama in good spirits ; he puts me in mind of the harebells he spoke of to night ; he is , like them , all gaiety and slightness to the view , while his mind is like the rock concealed by ...
... night , " now Duncan is here ; he always keeps mama in good spirits ; he puts me in mind of the harebells he spoke of to night ; he is , like them , all gaiety and slightness to the view , while his mind is like the rock concealed by ...
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... night , and when the physician , who attended Duncan , de- clared that a journey to Madeira could alone save him , he told her parents that Florella must also go : she was also in a decline , either from anxiety , or owing to her ...
... night , and when the physician , who attended Duncan , de- clared that a journey to Madeira could alone save him , he told her parents that Florella must also go : she was also in a decline , either from anxiety , or owing to her ...
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Page 52 - Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.
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Page 197 - Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
Page 103 - Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him of whom Moses in the law and the prophets did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
Page 155 - Lie not ; but let thy heart be true to God, Thy mouth to it, thy actions to them both.
Page viii - Here the self-torturing sophist, wild Rousseau, The apostle of affliction, he who threw Enchantment over passion, and from woe Wrung overwhelming eloquence, first drew The breath which made him wretched : yet he knew How to make madness beautiful, and cast O'er erring deeds and thoughts a heavenly hue Of words, like sunbeams, dazzling as they past The eyes, which o'er them shed tears feelingly and fast.
Page 59 - If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
Page 219 - Athenian walls from ruin bare. IX. TO A VIRTUOUS YOUNG LADY. LADY, that in the prime of earliest youth Wisely hast shunned the broad way and the green, And with those few art eminently seen, That labour up the hill of heavenly truth, The better part with Mary and with Ruth Chosen thou hast...
Page xiv - And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast : There shall the morn her earliest tears bestow, There the first roses of the year shall blow ; While angels with their silver wings o'ersluide The ground, now sacred by thy reliques made.
Page 128 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he; Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.