Orange blossoms, a gift-book by T.S. Arthur1857 |
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affection angel answered arms beautiful better blessed bosom bride bright brother brow Burgess charm cheek cheerful child comfort dear Lizzie delighted domestic door dream duties earth Ellen Emily everything exclaimed extra cloth eyes face Fannie FANNY FERN father favourite fear feel felt Frederic Gorton FREDERIKA BREMER gazed gentle gilt girl GOLDEN LEGEND gone hand happy HARRIET BEECHER STOWE heart heaven Hettie hope husband kiss knew Leland light lips little Eva look Marcelle marriage married mind morning mother Nellie never night passed Paul Paul Gerhardt pleasant pleasure Post 8vo praise quiet remember replied Rosa sister smile soft eyes SONG OF HIAWATHA soon sorrow soul speak spirit sunshine sweet TANGLEWOOD TALES tears tell tenderness things thought turb voice Walcott WASHINGTON IRVING Winkleman wish wives woman wonder words Year's Eve
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Page 11 - Ay, go to the grave of buried love, and meditate ! There settle the account with thy conscience for every past benefit unrequited ; every past endearment unregarded, of that departed being, who can never — never — never return to be soothed by thy contrition!
Page 159 - You practise your new way of talk upon your office boy ; — you tell him that ' your wife ' expects you home to dinner; and are astonished that he does not stare to hear you say it. You wonder if the people in the omnibus know, that Madge and you are just married ; and if the driver knows, that the shilling you hand to him, is for
Page 188 - And you'll find there's no home like a home in the heart. Oh ! link but one spirit that's warmly sincere, That will heighten your pleasure and solace your care; Find a soul you may trust as the kind and the just, And be sure the wide world holds no treasure so rare.
Page 268 - Pleasure at pleasure touched, at pleasure waived, A washing of the weary traveller's feet, A quenching of his thirst, a sweet repose Alternate and preparative, in groves Where loving much the flower that loves the shade And loving much the shade that that flower loves, He yet is...
Page 63 - The zest it gives to-day, — If Providence, with parent care, Mete out the varying lot, While meek contentment bows to share The palace, or the cot, — And oh ! if Faith sublime and clear, The spirit upward guide — Then...
Page 61 - PART I. - LOVE. A GLANCE - a thought - a blow - It stings him to the core. A question - will it lay him low? Or will time heal it o'er? He kindles at the name - He sits and thinks apart; Time blows and blows it to a flame, Burning within his heart. He loves it though it burns, And nurses it with care; He feels the blissful pain by turns With hope, and with despair.
Page 230 - But your mother's stove, though a good one for those days," said Mrs. Wilson, " was one of the first invented, and destitute of most of the conveniences which now accompany them. It consumed, beside, double the amount of fuel required in one of the modern stoves." "What an absurd idea ! A stove is a stove, I take it, and what was good enough for my mother, is good enough for my wife. — That which answered all the purposes of cooking in so large a family as my father's, might suffice, I should imagine,...