 | Edward Bouverie Pusey - Fathers of the church - 1842 - 432 pages
...comfort ; a few days after, in my absence, he was attacked again by the fever, and so departed. 9. At this grief my heart was utterly darkened; and whatever...became a distracting torture. Mine eyes sought him every where, but he was not granted them; and I hated all places, for that they had not him; nor could... | |
 | Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.), Edward Bouverie Pusey - 1840 - 460 pages
...my comfort; a few days after, in my absence, he was attacked again by the fever, and so departed. 9. At this grief my heart was utterly darkened ; and...became a distracting torture. Mine eyes sought him every where, but he was not granted them ; and I hated all places, for that they had not him ; nor... | |
 | William James E. Bennett - 1847 - 380 pages
...days afterwards the fever increased, and the young convert died. " At this grief," says Augustine, " my heart was utterly darkened; and whatever I beheld...distracting torture. Mine eyes sought him everywhere, but he was not granted them; and I hated all places, for that they had him not; nor could they now... | |
 | American literature - 1856 - 704 pages
...sorrow. " My heart," he says, " was utterly darkened, and whatever I beheld was death. My birth-place was a torment to me, and my father's house a strange unhappiness." He lived to repent this inordinate grief ; and, in one of the most eloquent passages of his autobiography,... | |
 | Religion - 1859 - 500 pages
...sorrow. " Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death." " At this grief," he says, " my heart was utterly darkened, and whatever I beheld...distracting torture. Mine eyes sought him everywhere, but he was not granted them ; and I hated all places for that they had not him; nor could they now... | |
 | John Kitto - 1859 - 498 pages
...sorrow. " Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death." "At this grief," he says, " my heart was utterly darkened, and whatever I beheld...distracting torture. Mine eyes sought him everywhere, but he was not granted them ; and I hated all places for that they had not him ; nor could they now... | |
 | Saint Augustine (of Hippo) - Christian saints - 1860 - 468 pages
...comfort ; a few days after, in my absence, he was attacked again by the fever, and so departed. 9. At this grief my heart was utterly darkened ; and...unhappiness ; and whatever I had shared with him, now that he was gone, became a distracting torture. Mine eyes sought him everywhere, but found him... | |
 | Henrietta Louisa Lear - 1875 - 382 pages
...afterwards the fever increased, and the young convert died. "At this grief," says Augustine, "myheartwas utterly darkened ; and whatever I beheld was death....distracting torture. Mine eyes sought him everywhere, but he was not granted them ; and I hated all places, for that they had him not ; nor could they now... | |
 | H. L. Sidney Lear - Clergy - 1877 - 502 pages
...conscissam et cruentam animam meam, impatientem a me portari; et ubi earn ponerem non inveniebam.'' 1 "At this grief my heart was utterly darkened, and...to me, and my father's house a strange unhappiness. . . . Mine eyes sought him everywhere, but he was not granted them, and I hated all places, for that... | |
 | Henrietta Louisa Lear - 1877 - 606 pages
...conscissam et cruentam animam meam, impatientem a me portari ; et ubi earn ponerem non inveniebam.' ' ' "At this grief my heart was utterly darkened, and...to me, and my father's house a strange unhappiness. . . . Mine eyes sought him everywhere, but he was not granted them, and I hated all places, for that... | |
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At this grief my heart was utterly darkened; and whatever I beheld was death. My native country was a torment to me, and my father's house a strange unhappiness; and whatever I had shared with him, wanting him, became a distracting torture. Mine eyes... 
