The Opal: A Pure Gift for the Holy DaysJohn Keese, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, Nathaniel Parker Willis John C. Riker, 1849 |
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... followed that toward his gentle wife , who never allowed a word of complaint , or defence , much less of angry retort to escape her lips , he soon unconsciously stood in the light of a master - one who would have been feared and ...
... followed that toward his gentle wife , who never allowed a word of complaint , or defence , much less of angry retort to escape her lips , he soon unconsciously stood in the light of a master - one who would have been feared and ...
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... followed him down the stairs , and through the long hall , and they two stood in the portico to watch his going . The last look that Elliot caught of them through the carriage - window , showed him Blanche , with her little hand shading ...
... followed him down the stairs , and through the long hall , and they two stood in the portico to watch his going . The last look that Elliot caught of them through the carriage - window , showed him Blanche , with her little hand shading ...
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... followed by a long and distressing illness . It was while slowly recovering , and reading the Bible in the new language love and her husband had taught her , that she became , as she believed , and as all who knew her intimately felt ...
... followed by a long and distressing illness . It was while slowly recovering , and reading the Bible in the new language love and her husband had taught her , that she became , as she believed , and as all who knew her intimately felt ...
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... followed , when to their astonishment they beheld , sleeping at the foot of the old oak tree , a child of most rare and surpassing beauty . Her complexion was of dazzling fairness , a profusion of rich golden hair fell round her ...
... followed , when to their astonishment they beheld , sleeping at the foot of the old oak tree , a child of most rare and surpassing beauty . Her complexion was of dazzling fairness , a profusion of rich golden hair fell round her ...
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... followed Erminia's footsteps , as she tended the flowers that seemed to grow beneath her hand ; how he would stroll with her into the forest depths , and sit for hours by her side listen- ing to her converse on themes in which she knew ...
... followed Erminia's footsteps , as she tended the flowers that seemed to grow beneath her hand ; how he would stroll with her into the forest depths , and sit for hours by her side listen- ing to her converse on themes in which she knew ...
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Page 295 - Tis a little thing To give a cup of water ; yet its draught Of cool refreshment, drained by fevered lips, May give a shock of pleasure to the frame More exquisite than when Nectarean juice Renews the life of joy in happiest hours.
Page 293 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Page 60 - But for to speken of hire conscience, She was so charitable and so pitous, She wolde wepe if that she saw a mous Caughte in a trappe, if it were ded or bledde, Of smale houndes hadde she, that she fedde With rested flesh, and milk, and wastel brede, But sore wept she if on of hem were dede, Or if men smote it with a yerde smert : And all was conscience and tendre herte.
Page 290 - Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool ; but, while I am coming, another steppcth down before me.
Page 151 - A taste for Books is the pleasure and glory of my life. I would not exchange it for the glory of the Indies.
Page 69 - This Latin knew he nothing what it said For he too tender was of age to know ; But to his comrade he repaired, and...
Page 295 - Renews the life of joy in happiest hours. It is a little thing to speak a phrase Of common comfort which by daily use Has almost lost its sense ; yet on the ear Of him who thought to die unmourn'd, 'twill fall Like choicest music...
Page 164 - ... rises into grace or falls into negligence, has so much plain and familiar freedom, that we read no poetry with a deeper conviction of its sentiments having come from the author's heart; and of the enthusiasm, in whatever he describes, having been unfeigned and unexaggerated.
Page 70 - Was fashioned for our blissful Lady free ; Her to salute, and also her to pray To be our help upon our dying day. If there is more in this I know it not ; Song do I learn, — small grammar I have got.
Page 69 - Children a heape comen of Christian blood, That learned in that schoole year by year Such manner doctrine as men used there ; This is to say, to singen and to read, As smalle children do in their childhede.