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... enjoined , The Lord gave the best of mothers , the Lord hath taken her away , and for all the happy hours we once passed together , God's holy name be praised ! ' JANE BOUVERIE . CHAPTER I. ' None remember thee , X PREFACE .
... enjoined , The Lord gave the best of mothers , the Lord hath taken her away , and for all the happy hours we once passed together , God's holy name be praised ! ' JANE BOUVERIE . CHAPTER I. ' None remember thee , X PREFACE .
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... . The ruined tower , mantled with ivy , acquires an added grace with every passing year - the sculptured marble excites a deeper interest when it tells a tale of days gone by - and the painted canvass becomes mel- lowed CHAPTER II. ...
... . The ruined tower , mantled with ivy , acquires an added grace with every passing year - the sculptured marble excites a deeper interest when it tells a tale of days gone by - and the painted canvass becomes mel- lowed CHAPTER II. ...
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... passing storm , and an existence which depends not for its best enjoyments or its severest trials on the sunshine or shadows of this lovely but changeable world . All the old have once been young ; and the young , if they live , must ...
... passing storm , and an existence which depends not for its best enjoyments or its severest trials on the sunshine or shadows of this lovely but changeable world . All the old have once been young ; and the young , if they live , must ...
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... passed away , my blighted spirit has not linked itself to another , and all that remains to cheer me is the light of Christian truth , which , like a summer sun , sheds its brightest hues on the darkest cloud . Obliterating the gloomy ...
... passed away , my blighted spirit has not linked itself to another , and all that remains to cheer me is the light of Christian truth , which , like a summer sun , sheds its brightest hues on the darkest cloud . Obliterating the gloomy ...
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... passed for the work of a fairy's wand , so successfully had it been adorned with rare and splendid plants . The whole looked , in summer , like one brilliant bouquet ; and my father , in the exultation of exhibiting his success to ...
... passed for the work of a fairy's wand , so successfully had it been adorned with rare and splendid plants . The whole looked , in summer , like one brilliant bouquet ; and my father , in the exultation of exhibiting his success to ...
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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.