The Opal, Volume 5State Lunatic Asylum, 1855 |
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... scene , and the freshness of fra- sessed of hearts alive to every emotion of grance perfuming the lately barren and deso - nature - seeing , feeling and acting as of kin- late fields , and the delicious fruits regaling dred associates ...
... scene , and the freshness of fra- sessed of hearts alive to every emotion of grance perfuming the lately barren and deso - nature - seeing , feeling and acting as of kin- late fields , and the delicious fruits regaling dred associates ...
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... scenes , and also of themselves . - wonder that humanity and its offices are so feebly represented , and that the distance is so short between the brilliant chandeliers of gayety and fashion , where wisdom is danced out of countenance ...
... scenes , and also of themselves . - wonder that humanity and its offices are so feebly represented , and that the distance is so short between the brilliant chandeliers of gayety and fashion , where wisdom is danced out of countenance ...
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... , all ? Ah ! though in life we oft will find Some friends like summer flowers , True friendship's not the chain that binds , And fails in life's sad hours . PARLOR SCENE , No. 3 . It is evening - [ 44 ] 44 THE OPAL . · ...
... , all ? Ah ! though in life we oft will find Some friends like summer flowers , True friendship's not the chain that binds , And fails in life's sad hours . PARLOR SCENE , No. 3 . It is evening - [ 44 ] 44 THE OPAL . · ...
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PARLOR SCENE , No. 3 . It is evening - the lamps of the parlor are lighting up a circle of ladies gathered around a centre - table , some with work , some with book in hand - two ladies are at a chess - board , and are at a discussion ...
PARLOR SCENE , No. 3 . It is evening - the lamps of the parlor are lighting up a circle of ladies gathered around a centre - table , some with work , some with book in hand - two ladies are at a chess - board , and are at a discussion ...
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... scene is difficult to be found on record - a scene in which the flower , and the wealth , and the nobility of the Roman nation was sacrificed to the ambition of Cæsar and Pompey . So terrible was the sight that Cæsar , although ...
... scene is difficult to be found on record - a scene in which the flower , and the wealth , and the nobility of the Roman nation was sacrificed to the ambition of Cæsar and Pompey . So terrible was the sight that Cæsar , although ...
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Page 132 - God, the life and light Of all this wondrous world we see ; Its glow by day, its smile by night, Are but reflections caught from thee. Where'er we turn, thy glories shine; And all things fair and bright are thine.
Page 109 - Jerusalem, my happy home, My soul still pants for thee ; Then shall my labours have an end, When I thy joys shall see.
Page 109 - When shall my labours have an end, In joy, and peace, and thee...
Page 60 - Touched by remembrance, trembles to that pole ; For in this land of Heaven's peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's...
Page 55 - Go your way and tell John what things ye have seen and heard : the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up...
Page 53 - And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD? Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.
Page 93 - For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law; (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
Page 46 - Again, I must have food and clothing. Without a proper genial warmth, I instantly perish. Am I not related, in this view, to the very earth itself? To the distant sun, from whose beams I derive vigour?
Page 51 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, So that I come again to my father's house in peace ; then shall the Lord be my God : and this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house : and of all that thou shalt give me, I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
Page 51 - Surely the Lord is in this place, and I knew it not. How dreadful is this place ! This is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of Heaven.