The Token of Friendship: An Offering for All Seasons ...Phillips, Sampson, 1853 |
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... continued presently , " when deprived of your counsel , and seduced by evil companions , was my ruin . I think , I KNOW , that I should have amended , and become useful in my limited sphere to society , but society shut me out , con ...
... continued presently , " when deprived of your counsel , and seduced by evil companions , was my ruin . I think , I KNOW , that I should have amended , and become useful in my limited sphere to society , but society shut me out , con ...
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... continued the spinster , " and I think I ought to do so , since , though I dare say no older than myself , " ( Mrs. Damer was five years her junior , ) " you are the only married lady here . " " Good heavens ! Lady Maria , what do you ...
... continued the spinster , " and I think I ought to do so , since , though I dare say no older than myself , " ( Mrs. Damer was five years her junior , ) " you are the only married lady here . " " Good heavens ! Lady Maria , what do you ...
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... wife was not cast off by another ! - Hear me ! -look at me ! or I shall lose my reason , " continued Lady Borrowdale , while she succeeded in removing Sir Percy's hands from the death - like countenance which he had THE SECRET . 69.
... wife was not cast off by another ! - Hear me ! -look at me ! or I shall lose my reason , " continued Lady Borrowdale , while she succeeded in removing Sir Percy's hands from the death - like countenance which he had THE SECRET . 69.
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... continued her walks with the curate , without appearing to care for the discomfort which prevailed at home . Upon retiring for the night , I summoned to my dressing - room the old lady who , having officiated for nearly half a century ...
... continued her walks with the curate , without appearing to care for the discomfort which prevailed at home . Upon retiring for the night , I summoned to my dressing - room the old lady who , having officiated for nearly half a century ...
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... continued , springing forward , 66 66 we are descried ; there are boats making towards us ! " At these words Bridget started to her feet , just as a tremendous wave struck the ship , and , sweeping the deck , carried her and the ...
... continued , springing forward , 66 66 we are descried ; there are boats making towards us ! " At these words Bridget started to her feet , just as a tremendous wave struck the ship , and , sweeping the deck , carried her and the ...
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Alice asked beauty better blessed blue eyes Bridget Bridget Ryan bright child Cousin Kate Damer daugh dear death door dream Drewatt evil exclaimed face father fear feel felt flowers fortune gentle gifted girl gone hand happy heard heart Herbert Hinchliff Hobart Town hope husband Jasper kindly King of Bavaria knew Lady Borrowdale Lady Maria lips looked lover Lucy Freeling Markham marriage Medwin merry Michael Callan mind Miss morning mother never night Noel Fletcher Norfolk Island once pale passed perhaps poet poor proud quadrilles Ralph Ashton replied returned Richard Robert Smith rose seemed Sir Percy Skipton smile soon sorrow spirit ST KEYNE stancy stood suffered Sutherland sweet tears tell tender thee thou thought tion uncle voice weep widow wife wild William Howard woman YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY young youth
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Page 96 - While love, unknown among the blest, Parent of thousand wild desires, The savage and the human breast, Torments alike with raging fires ; " With bright, but oft destructive, gleam, Alike o'er all his lightnings fly ; Thy lambent glories only beam Around the fav'rites of the sky. " Thy gentle flows of guiltless joys On fools and villains ne'er descend : In vain for thee the tyrant sighs, And hugs a flatterer for a friend. " Directress of the brave and just, O guide us through life's darksome way !...
Page 189 - St. Keyne,' quoth the Cornish-man, 'many a time Drank of this crystal Well, And before the Angel summoned her, She laid on the water a spell. 'If the husband of this gifted Well Shall drink before his wife, A happy man thenceforth is he, For he shall be master for life.
Page 201 - A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we see nothing but spires of temples and turrets of palaces, and imagine it the residence of splendour, grandeur, and magnificence; but when we have passed the gates, we find it perplexed with narrow passages, disgraced with despicable cottages, embarrassed with obstructions, and clouded with smoke.
Page 96 - FRIENDSHIP, peculiar boon of heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride. To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied. While love unknown among the blest, Parent of thousand wild desires, The savage and the human breast Torments alike with raging fires; With bright, but oft destructive, gleam, Alike o'er all his lightnings fly ; Thy lambent glories only beam Around the fav'rites of the sky.
Page 257 - ... probation before receiving formal permission to render each other happy or miserable for life. " Medwin, your father is waiting for you ; all is ready for your departure," said Sutherland. Ella sobbed bitterly, and Medwin whispered to her — " True constancy no time, no power can move, He that hath known to change ne'er knew to love.
Page 186 - But the life of every man is as the wellspring of a stream, whose small beginnings are indeed plain to all, but whose ulterior course and destination, as it winds through the expanses of infinite years, only the Omniscient can discern.
Page 224 - The minds of his children, — of his wife,—his own mind, are so many microcosms, which only ask to be inquired into and developed, to reveal hoards of wealth, which may be coined into current enjoyment. We are ever too little sensible of the good immediately within our grasp; too ready to cavil at difficulties and to declare them impossibilities. A great man once said there were no such things, and as all proverbs have their foundation in practical truth, this idea may receive confirmation from...