The Token: A Christmas and New Year's Present, Volume 1Samuel Griswold Goodrich Gray and Bowem, 1831 - 350 pages |
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... fathers have lived ; their children will live after them ; the way is plain ; the boundaries are definite ; the business is obvious ; and this to them is life . They look upon this 2 The Mysteries of Life-By Orville Dewey.
... fathers have lived ; their children will live after them ; the way is plain ; the boundaries are definite ; the business is obvious ; and this to them is life . They look upon this 2 The Mysteries of Life-By Orville Dewey.
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... look upon this world as a vast domicil , or an extensive pleasure ground ; the objects are familiar ; the implements are worn ; the very skies are old ; the earth is a pathway for those that come and go , on earthly errands ; the world ...
... look upon this world as a vast domicil , or an extensive pleasure ground ; the objects are familiar ; the implements are worn ; the very skies are old ; the earth is a pathway for those that come and go , on earthly errands ; the world ...
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... look at the busy and giddy throng , that think of nothing but pleasure or gain , that question not this mysterious life nor this mighty sphere , but to ask for the way to gratification and profit , I turn to you with veneration , and ...
... look at the busy and giddy throng , that think of nothing but pleasure or gain , that question not this mysterious life nor this mighty sphere , but to ask for the way to gratification and profit , I turn to you with veneration , and ...
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... look unscared on the human face ; Thou alone , with a wing to flee , Dost love with man in his haunts to be ; And the ' gentle dove ' Has become a name for trust and love . A holy gift is thine , sweet bird ! Thou To a City Pigeon.
... look unscared on the human face ; Thou alone , with a wing to flee , Dost love with man in his haunts to be ; And the ' gentle dove ' Has become a name for trust and love . A holy gift is thine , sweet bird ! Thou To a City Pigeon.
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... look upon its waves , succeeding each other continually , one rising up as another vanishes , and we think of the generations of men , which lift up their heads for a while and then pass away , one after the other , for all the noise ...
... look upon its waves , succeeding each other continually , one rising up as another vanishes , and we think of the generations of men , which lift up their heads for a while and then pass away , one after the other , for all the noise ...
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The Token: Christmas and New Year's Present (Classic Reprint) Samuel Griswold Goodrich No preview available - 2016 |
The Token: A Christmas and New Year's Present Nathaniel Parker Willis,Samuel Griswold Goodrich No preview available - 1829 |
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Page 32 - I am as a man that hath no strength: free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps. Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves.
Page 35 - Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since, their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage: their decay Has dried up realms to deserts; not so thou; Unchangeable save to thy wild waves play.
Page 188 - Albeit thou dost not see my face the while. Yes — thou canst hear — and He Who on thy sightless eye its darkness hung, To the attentive ear like harps hath strung Heaven, and earth, and sea ! And 'tis a lesson in our hearts to know, With but one sense the soul may overflow ! 1.
Page 43 - ... inhabitants! The most desirable mode of existence might be that of a spiritualized Paul Pry, hovering invisible round man and woman, witnessing their deeds, searching into their hearts, borrowing brightness from their felicity, and shade from their sorrow, and retaining no emotion peculiar to himself. But none of these things are possible ; and if I would know the interior of brick walls, or the mystery of human bosoms, I can but guess.
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Page 140 - Tis midnight — all is peace profound ! But, lo ! upon the murmuring ground, The lonely, swelling, hurrying sound Of distant wheels is heard ! They come — they pause a moment — when.
Page 246 - THE harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled. So sleeps the pride of former days, So glory's thrill is o'er, And hearts that once beat high for praise Now feel that pulse no more.
Page 33 - ... oft: Of every cloud which in the heavens might stir I knew the force; and hence the rough sea's pride Availed not to my Vessel's overthrow. What noble pomp and frequent have not I On regal decks beheld ! yet in the end I learned that one poor moment can suffice To equalize the lofty and the low. We sail the sea of life...
Page 41 - O that I could soar up into the very zenith, where man never breathed, nor eagle ever flew, and where the ethereal azure melts away from the eye, and appears only a deepened shade of nothingness ! And yet I shiver at that cold and solitary thought.