The triplet of life, or A book of records for births, marriages, and deaths, with suitable passages for each. Selected and arranged by M.F.P. DunbarHatchards, 1883 - 406 pages |
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... Paradise our store . January 26 . Keble . Dost thou love Life ? then do not squander Time , for that is the stuff Life is made of . BEN . FRANKLIN . Pause , you who read this , and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold ...
... Paradise our store . January 26 . Keble . Dost thou love Life ? then do not squander Time , for that is the stuff Life is made of . BEN . FRANKLIN . Pause , you who read this , and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold ...
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... Paradise . ' I do not know when or where I ever spent such delightful days . I am content to live , THIRI WALL'S Letters . Divided with but half a heart , Till we shall meet and never part . DR . KING . He taught us how to live , and ...
... Paradise . ' I do not know when or where I ever spent such delightful days . I am content to live , THIRI WALL'S Letters . Divided with but half a heart , Till we shall meet and never part . DR . KING . He taught us how to live , and ...
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... Paradise below . NATHANIEL COTTON . Whether in youth , like early fruit , Or in the sere and solemn suit Of our autumnal age , like wheat Ripened , and for the reaper fit , Thou cut us off , O God , may we Gathered into Thy garner be ...
... Paradise below . NATHANIEL COTTON . Whether in youth , like early fruit , Or in the sere and solemn suit Of our autumnal age , like wheat Ripened , and for the reaper fit , Thou cut us off , O God , may we Gathered into Thy garner be ...
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... marriage vow . A man's best things are nearest him . SOUTHEY . R. M. MILNES . If God hath made this world so fair Where sin and death abound , How beautiful beyond compare Will Paradise be found . J. MONTGOMERY . April 12 . 120 April 11 .
... marriage vow . A man's best things are nearest him . SOUTHEY . R. M. MILNES . If God hath made this world so fair Where sin and death abound , How beautiful beyond compare Will Paradise be found . J. MONTGOMERY . April 12 . 120 April 11 .
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... Paradise . BUCKINGHAM . That best portion of a good man's life , His little , nameless , unremembered acts Of kindness and of love . WORDSWORTH . I leave my character behind me . SHERIDAN , 1751 . May 8 . 148 May 7 .
... Paradise . BUCKINGHAM . That best portion of a good man's life , His little , nameless , unremembered acts Of kindness and of love . WORDSWORTH . I leave my character behind me . SHERIDAN , 1751 . May 8 . 148 May 7 .
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angels ANON August bear beauty better blessed blest bright Changed CHARLES CHARLES DICKENS cheerful comfort dead dear death December duty earth Ecclesiasticus eternal face fair faith fear February feel flowers gentle give given glad glory Goethe gone hand happy hast hath heart heaven holy hope hour human husband January July June keep kind leave life's light live LONGFELLOW looks Lord lost man's March marriage meet MILTON mind MOORE nature never night November o'er October Paradise pass past path peace perfect POPE Proverbial pure R. C. TRENCH rest Seasons September shine sleep smile Songs sorrow soul SOUTHEY spirit strong sweet tears thee thine things THOMAS A KEMPIS thou art thought true truth TUPPER virtue weary wife Wisdom wish woman
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Page 70 - Life ! we've been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy weather ; 'Tis hard to part when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear : — Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time ; Say not ' Good night ' — but in some brighter clime Bid me
Page 22 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt. Dispraise or blame, nothing but well and fair. And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
Page 100 - Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, God-like erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty, seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed; for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure— Severe, but in true filial freedom placed, Whence true authority in men...
Page 284 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Page 309 - Our life is two-fold : Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence : Sleep hath its own world, And a wide realm of wild reality. And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy...
Page 124 - Industry all easy, as Poor Richard says; and He that riseth late must trot all Day, and shall scarce overtake his Business at Night; while Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him...
Page 406 - Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
Page 96 - I stand, And the midnight hears my cry: I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die Till the sun grows cold, And the stars are old, And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold!
Page 110 - I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But was it such ? It was. Where thou art gone Adieus and farewells are a sound unknown. May I but meet thee on that peaceful shore, The parting word shall pass my lips no more ! Thy maidens, grieved themselves at my concern, Oft gave me promise of thy quick return.
Page 48 - Death is the crown of life : Were death denied, poor man would live in vain : Were death denied, to live would not be life: Were death denied, e'en fools would wish to die. Death wounds to cure; we fall, we rise, we reign! Spring from our fetters, fasten in the skies, Where blooming Eden withers in our sight. Death gives us more than was in Eden lost! This king of terrors is the prince of peace.