Life of Dorothea Lynde DixHoughton, Mifflin Company, 1890 - 392 pages |
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... confidential intimacy could she be induced to unlock the silence which to the very end of life she maintained as to all the incidents of her early days . As throwing light on the development of character in a CHAPTER BIRTH AND ANCESTRY.
... confidential intimacy could she be induced to unlock the silence which to the very end of life she maintained as to all the incidents of her early days . As throwing light on the development of character in a CHAPTER BIRTH AND ANCESTRY.
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Francis Tiffany. As throwing light on the development of character in a woman of the ultimate stamp of Miss Dix , it be- comes necessary to hint , at least , at the peculiar na- ture of the trials to which she was so early subjected ...
Francis Tiffany. As throwing light on the development of character in a woman of the ultimate stamp of Miss Dix , it be- comes necessary to hint , at least , at the peculiar na- ture of the trials to which she was so early subjected ...
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... lights up or any unexpected sorrow strikes my heart , I find it difficult to repress the full and swelling tide of feeling . Even now , though alone and with no very exciting cause of joy or grief , I am paying my watery tribute to the ...
... lights up or any unexpected sorrow strikes my heart , I find it difficult to repress the full and swelling tide of feeling . Even now , though alone and with no very exciting cause of joy or grief , I am paying my watery tribute to the ...
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... light , she could be much in the open air , and at last her passion for hero - worship found satis- faction in close intimacy with an actual human being so exalted in intellect and saintly in character that the more nearly she came in ...
... light , she could be much in the open air , and at last her passion for hero - worship found satis- faction in close intimacy with an actual human being so exalted in intellect and saintly in character that the more nearly she came in ...
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... light up the vast firmament that canopied the silent earth , silent , for sleep had exerted its restoring influence upon all save the sick and sorrowing . I turned reluctantly again to seek my weary couch . feelings of gratitude to my ...
... light up the vast firmament that canopied the silent earth , silent , for sleep had exerted its restoring influence upon all save the sick and sorrowing . I turned reluctantly again to seek my weary couch . feelings of gratitude to my ...
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Page 84 - Did you never, in walking in the fields, come across a large flat stone, which had lain, nobody knows how long, just where you found it, with the grass forming a little hedge, as it were, all round it, close to its edges, — and have you not, in obedience to a kind of feeling that told you it had been lying there long enough, insinuated your stick or your foot or your fingers under its edge and turned it over as a housewife turns a cake, when she says to herself, " It's done brown enough by this...
Page 304 - He has visited all Europe, — not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts : — but to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt...
Page 272 - For who maketh thee to differ from another ? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?
Page 84 - ... perhaps more horrible in their pulpy stillness than even in the infernal wriggle of maturity ! But no sooner is the stone turned, and the wholesome light of day let...
Page 290 - A new Theresa will hardly have the opportunity of reforming a conventual life, any more than a new Antigone will spend her heroic piety in daring all for the sake of a brother's burial: the medium in which their ardent deeds took shape is for ever gone.
Page 76 - I proceed, gentlemen, briefly to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within this Commonwealth, in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens! Chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.
Page 304 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gage and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Page 50 - The Chief's eye flashed ; his plans Soared up again like fire. The Chief's eye flashed ; but presently Softened itself, as sheathes A film the mother eagle's eye When her bruised eaglet breathes : " You're wounded ! " •
Page 236 - The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignities of Baron and Earl of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto the Right Hon.
Page 77 - Long before reaching the house, wild shouts, snatches of rude songs, imprecations and obscene language, fell upon the ear, proceeding from the occupant of a low building, rather remote from the principal building to which my course was directed. Found the mistress, and was conducted to the place which was called "the home" of the forlorn maniac., a young woman, exhibiting a condition of neglect and misery blotting out the faintest idea of comfort, and outraging every sentiment of decency. She had...