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... Light . Arnott 112 The Homes of Britain . Catherine Sinclair 115 Gipsy Children . Dickens 117 The Voice of Spring , Mrs. Hemans .. 118 The Fall of the Leaf . Rev. R. A. Willmott 122 Compensation . Rev. R. A. Willmott A Thought on Death ...
... Light . Arnott 112 The Homes of Britain . Catherine Sinclair 115 Gipsy Children . Dickens 117 The Voice of Spring , Mrs. Hemans .. 118 The Fall of the Leaf . Rev. R. A. Willmott 122 Compensation . Rev. R. A. Willmott A Thought on Death ...
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... silently we watch the bed , by the taper's flickering light , Where all we love is fading fast - how terrible is night ! Rev. R. H. Barham . KEEPSAKES . Shepherd . - Few things in this weary PENCILLED PASSAGES . 7 Night Rev R H Barham.
... silently we watch the bed , by the taper's flickering light , Where all we love is fading fast - how terrible is night ! Rev. R. H. Barham . KEEPSAKES . Shepherd . - Few things in this weary PENCILLED PASSAGES . 7 Night Rev R H Barham.
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... light of the moon , Oh ! why are the dew - drops dissolving so soon ? Does the sun in his wrath chase their brightness away , As though nothing that's lovely might live for a day ? The moonlight has faded , the flowers still remain ...
... light of the moon , Oh ! why are the dew - drops dissolving so soon ? Does the sun in his wrath chase their brightness away , As though nothing that's lovely might live for a day ? The moonlight has faded , the flowers still remain ...
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... light your slumbers , unbroken by the disap- pointments of the day , or the cares of the coming morrow ; — uncorrupted by the vices of the town , your ignorance is truly bliss . While we are ab- sorbed in the vanity , that is , business ...
... light your slumbers , unbroken by the disap- pointments of the day , or the cares of the coming morrow ; — uncorrupted by the vices of the town , your ignorance is truly bliss . While we are ab- sorbed in the vanity , that is , business ...
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... light ! The idiot who never enjoyed reason ; the melancholy maniac who has been de- prived of it ; how pitiably weak and dependent are they , compared with the rhinoceros or the eagle ! Nevertheless , it has been given to man to subdue ...
... light ! The idiot who never enjoyed reason ; the melancholy maniac who has been de- prived of it ; how pitiably weak and dependent are they , compared with the rhinoceros or the eagle ! Nevertheless , it has been given to man to subdue ...
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Page 87 - FRIEND after friend departs ; Who hath not lost a friend ? There is no union here of hearts, That finds not here an end : Were this frail world our only rest, Living or dying none were blest.
Page 101 - You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attain'd his noon. Stay, stay Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having pray'd together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the Summer's rain ; Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again.
Page 18 - Oh, the grave! the grave! It buries every error, covers every defect, extinguishes every resentment. From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections.
Page 56 - Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour.
Page 192 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege Through all the years of this our life, to lead From, joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith that all which we behold Is...
Page 168 - Give a man this taste and a means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making a happy man, unless indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books.
Page 34 - Thus, though abroad perchance I might appear Harsh and austere, To those who on my leisure would intrude Reserved and rude, Gentle at home amid my friends I'd be, Like the high leaves upon the holly tree.
Page 184 - Fare thee weel, thou first and fairest ! Fare thee weel, thou best and dearest ! Thine be ilka joy and treasure, Peace, Enjoyment, Love, and Pleasure ! Ae fond kiss, and then we sever ! Ae fareweel, alas ! for ever ! Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee, Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.
Page 82 - How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man! How passing wonder He who made him such, Who centred in our make such strange extremes!
Page 16 - The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal — every other affliction to forget; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open — this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.