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Page 8
... beautiful and tender associations cluster thick around it ! Com- pared with it , house , mansion , palace , are cold heart- less terms . But home ! that word quickens the pulse , warms the heart , stirs the soul to its depths , makes ...
... beautiful and tender associations cluster thick around it ! Com- pared with it , house , mansion , palace , are cold heart- less terms . But home ! that word quickens the pulse , warms the heart , stirs the soul to its depths , makes ...
Page 21
... beautiful , yet with a borrowed splendor . How meet an emblem of the jewels that adorn the Saviour's crown ! Besides , like many a gem of man and woman kind , the diamond is of humble origin . Its native state is mean . It lies buried ...
... beautiful , yet with a borrowed splendor . How meet an emblem of the jewels that adorn the Saviour's crown ! Besides , like many a gem of man and woman kind , the diamond is of humble origin . Its native state is mean . It lies buried ...
Page 28
... a noisy crowd - come sailing , wheeling home ; when the flowers shut their beautiful eyes ; when the sun , retiring within the cloudy curtains of the evening , sinks into his ocean bed , nature , however some 28 THE POWER OF DARKNESS .
... a noisy crowd - come sailing , wheeling home ; when the flowers shut their beautiful eyes ; when the sun , retiring within the cloudy curtains of the evening , sinks into his ocean bed , nature , however some 28 THE POWER OF DARKNESS .
Page 31
... , to gaze on his beautiful bride , to find the blear - eyed Leah at his side . Yet a day ap- proaches when , from dreams of wealth and pleasure many shall awake in rage and unavailing sorrow , to THE POWER OF DARKNESS . 31.
... , to gaze on his beautiful bride , to find the blear - eyed Leah at his side . Yet a day ap- proaches when , from dreams of wealth and pleasure many shall awake in rage and unavailing sorrow , to THE POWER OF DARKNESS . 31.
Page 42
... beautiful island , asleep on its placid bosom . How often has superstition fled , pale , shrieking from the church- yard to report to gaping rustics that the dead were . walking ; when it was but the pale moonlight struggling through ...
... beautiful island , asleep on its placid bosom . How often has superstition fled , pale , shrieking from the church- yard to report to gaping rustics that the dead were . walking ; when it was but the pale moonlight struggling through ...
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