The Token of Friendship: An Offering for All Seasons ...Phillips, Sampson, 1853 |
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... soon reached the house of the man he had stunned and plundered on the preceding night . It was in street , Westminster . He passed and repassed . The sun was shining in the street ; the fallen snow was thawing fast ; the air was fresh ...
... soon reached the house of the man he had stunned and plundered on the preceding night . It was in street , Westminster . He passed and repassed . The sun was shining in the street ; the fallen snow was thawing fast ; the air was fresh ...
Page 78
... soon as the cere- mony was over , and she bowed her head upon her husband's bosom , " let us away - restore me to my father's roof before morning- let us not lose a moment . " Nothing was further part with her again . Robert made no ...
... soon as the cere- mony was over , and she bowed her head upon her husband's bosom , " let us away - restore me to my father's roof before morning- let us not lose a moment . " Nothing was further part with her again . Robert made no ...
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... soon to be upon the wild waters , to pass , a branded outcast , to an allotment , the stringency of which she could not know , but which her imagination clothed in the darkest colors : she prayed for the innocent sufferer lying before ...
... soon to be upon the wild waters , to pass , a branded outcast , to an allotment , the stringency of which she could not know , but which her imagination clothed in the darkest colors : she prayed for the innocent sufferer lying before ...
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... soon appreciated her character , and sympathized with her suffer- ings , and these , in a nature like his , induced exertion in her behalf . He gained her the notice of a charitable society , through the means of which the closing weeks ...
... soon appreciated her character , and sympathized with her suffer- ings , and these , in a nature like his , induced exertion in her behalf . He gained her the notice of a charitable society , through the means of which the closing weeks ...
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... soon after his reünion with Kate . Investigation was at work , and detection , though slow in following upon his delinquency , was only too sure . The joy , the hope , that visited her heart was of short duration . A second time she ...
... soon after his reünion with Kate . Investigation was at work , and detection , though slow in following upon his delinquency , was only too sure . The joy , the hope , that visited her heart was of short duration . A second time she ...
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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...