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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... turned away , Mary rose , and taking Blanche by the hand , 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 ...
... turned away , Mary rose , and taking Blanche by the hand , 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 ...
Page 25
... turned , and moaned in her sleep - then slowly opened her eyes , raised herself in her bed , and began weeping silently , a touching pecu- liarity of the little girl's always . When she saw her father , she sprang to his embrace , and ...
... turned , and moaned in her sleep - then slowly opened her eyes , raised herself in her bed , and began weeping silently , a touching pecu- liarity of the little girl's always . When she saw her father , she sprang to his embrace , and ...
Page 94
... turned to hatred . Every malignant passion seemed let loose within his breast , and Lady Darcy in her agony of terror , feared lest some act of horrid violence might terminate the dreadful scene . Erminia , still and beautiful as a ...
... turned to hatred . Every malignant passion seemed let loose within his breast , and Lady Darcy in her agony of terror , feared lest some act of horrid violence might terminate the dreadful scene . Erminia , still and beautiful as a ...
Page 111
... turning to the stranger , who was in the act of leaving the room , he said , " If you will wait a few moments I will have my carriage got ; your wife and little ones must not walk on such a night as this . " " God bless you , sir ...
... turning to the stranger , who was in the act of leaving the room , he said , " If you will wait a few moments I will have my carriage got ; your wife and little ones must not walk on such a night as this . " " God bless you , sir ...
Page 117
... Turning hastily towards Capt . R he said , with flashing eyes : — 66 " That was a shameful outrage , and if she was my sister , I would resent it . " R drew himself up , and replied , angrily , " Con- sider her your sister . " " No ...
... Turning hastily towards Capt . R he said , with flashing eyes : — 66 " That was a shameful outrage , and if she was my sister , I would resent it . " R drew himself up , and replied , angrily , " Con- sider her your sister . " " No ...
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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.