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... appears to me highly interesting , and I wish it success ; for to meet the popular curiosity by publications suited to the popular instruc- tion , and giving support to National Morality and Religion , appears to me the best service ...
... appears to me highly interesting , and I wish it success ; for to meet the popular curiosity by publications suited to the popular instruc- tion , and giving support to National Morality and Religion , appears to me the best service ...
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... appear ! but now , like a vast field of battle strewed over with the dead , the world lies desolate around me . In a home once peopled with brothers , sisters , friends , and parents , I hear only the echo of my own solitary ' footstep ...
... appear ! but now , like a vast field of battle strewed over with the dead , the world lies desolate around me . In a home once peopled with brothers , sisters , friends , and parents , I hear only the echo of my own solitary ' footstep ...
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... seldom is it so , and what cause of confusion should we have , if our Divine Saviour were to appear at any time to us , as he once did to the disciples , asking " What manner of communication is this that ye 70 JANE BOUVERIE .
... seldom is it so , and what cause of confusion should we have , if our Divine Saviour were to appear at any time to us , as he once did to the disciples , asking " What manner of communication is this that ye 70 JANE BOUVERIE .
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... appear . She acquired at Paris the most perfect taste in dress , and an art in putting it on with grace not to be excelled , besides a perfect passion for perfumes and many other trivialities , on which both my sisters could willingly ...
... appear . She acquired at Paris the most perfect taste in dress , and an art in putting it on with grace not to be excelled , besides a perfect passion for perfumes and many other trivialities , on which both my sisters could willingly ...
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... of copper for gold , still , as the sun shining on a bit of ordinary glass makes it seem bright as a diamond , so did our guest often appear to shine in the society of my father , who was by no means a fastidious epicure 84 JANE BOUVERIE .
... of copper for gold , still , as the sun shining on a bit of ordinary glass makes it seem bright as a diamond , so did our guest often appear to shine in the society of my father , who was by no means a fastidious epicure 84 JANE BOUVERIE .
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Page 145 - As a beam o'er the face of the waters may glow, While the tide runs in darkness and coldness below, So the cheek may be tinged with a warm sunny smile, Though the cold heart to ruin runs darkly the while.
Page 272 - Whom the gods love die young' was said of yore, And many deaths do they escape by this: The death of friends, and that which slays even more — The death of friendship, love, youth, all that is, Except mere breath ; and since the silent shore Awaits at last even those who longest miss The old archer's shafts, perhaps the early grave Which men weep over may be meant to save.
Page 37 - Resign the honours of their form at Winter's stormy blast, And leave the naked leafless plain a desolated waste. 8 Yet soon reviving plants and flow'rs anew shall deck the plain ; The woods shall hear the voice of Spring, and flourish green again.
Page 238 - The churchyard bears an added stone, The fireside shows a vacant chair ! Here sadness dwells and weeps alone, And death displays his banner there ; The life has gone, the breath has fled, And what has been no more shall be ; The well-known form, the welcome tread, Oh ! where are they ? and where is he ? HENRY NEELE.
Page 61 - No where by thee my steps shall be, For ever and for ever. But here will sigh thine alder tree, And here thine aspen shiver; And here by thee will hum the bee, For ever and for ever. A thousand suns will stream on thee, A thousand moons will quiver; But not by thee my steps shall be, For ever and for ever.
Page 238 - OFT o'er my brain does that strange fancy roll Which makes the present (while the flash doth last) Seem a mere semblance of some unknown past Mixed with such feelings, as perplex the soul Self-questioned in her sleep ; and some have said We lived, ere yet this robe of flesh we wore.