The Weldron Family: Or, Vicissitudes of Fortune. A Story of Real Life in New EnglandAn ambitious story of virtue and vice, set just after the end of the War of 1812, the story chronicles the shifting fortunes of generations of a family descended from the Mayflower settlers. |
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The Weldron Family: Or, Vicissitudes of Fortune; A Story O Freal Life in England Maria D. Weston No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 268 - YES — my native land ! I love thee ; All thy scenes I love them well ; Friends, connections, happy country, Can I bid you all farewell '( Can I leave you, Far in heathen lands to dwell?
Page 133 - And went with meekness, charity, and love. Where'er a tear was dried ; a wounded heart Bound up ; a bruised spirit with the dew Of sympathy anointed ; or a pang Of honest suffering soothed ; or injury Repeated oft, as oft by love forgiven ; Where'er an evil passion was subdued, Or Virtue's feeble embers fanned ; where'er A sin was heartily abjured, and left; I BOOK V.
Page 161 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Page 203 - His little weapon in the narrower sphere Of sweet domestic comfort, and cuts down The fairest bloom of sublunary bliss. ] Bliss ! sublunary bliss! proud words, and vain!
Page 268 - I say a last farewell? Can I leave you, Far in heathen lands to dwell? 4 Yes ! I hasten from you gladly, From the scenes I love so well ; Far away, ye billows ! bear me ; ' Lovely native land ! — farewell ! Pleased I leave thee, Far in heathen lands to dwell.
Page 268 - tis sure I love thee, Can I, can I say farewell ? Can I leave thee, Far in heathen lands to dwell...
Page 274 - Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer ; Trials bring me to his feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
Page 137 - That man may last, but never lives, Who much receives, but nothing gives; Whom none can love, whom none can thank, Creation's blot, creation's blank...
Page 131 - Before the willing spirit takes Her mansion near the throne. 3 Faith strives, but all its efforts fail To trace her...
Page 16 - And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes ; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved : but truly, as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death.