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... mother feels it her painful duty to inform you that her son's future destiny is in your hands . I cannot believe that you can wish that destiny marked with misfortune . I entirely set aside all interested motives on his family's account ...
... mother feels it her painful duty to inform you that her son's future destiny is in your hands . I cannot believe that you can wish that destiny marked with misfortune . I entirely set aside all interested motives on his family's account ...
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... mother ? " The countess returned to the place she had quitted ; she wept , and trem bled , as she said : " The hour grows late , baroness ; and I feel that your communication is one it were well to avoid at this moment ; but proceed , I ...
... mother ? " The countess returned to the place she had quitted ; she wept , and trem bled , as she said : " The hour grows late , baroness ; and I feel that your communication is one it were well to avoid at this moment ; but proceed , I ...
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... mother in despair confides to your exalted mind . Save him from the same despair , and his parent's blessings will reward the sacrifice ! " " I ! " exclaimed the countess 66 ; can you imagine , madam , that I can be the first to break ...
... mother in despair confides to your exalted mind . Save him from the same despair , and his parent's blessings will reward the sacrifice ! " " I ! " exclaimed the countess 66 ; can you imagine , madam , that I can be the first to break ...
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... mother , I have been forced to do so , -as your friend , too , I have done it , that you might not at any after period have cause to reproach yourself for having marred my son's prospects by an inconsiderate marriage . In my heart ...
... mother , I have been forced to do so , -as your friend , too , I have done it , that you might not at any after period have cause to reproach yourself for having marred my son's prospects by an inconsiderate marriage . In my heart ...
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... mother kneeling for a son's life at her hands , -it was her alone that could raise the black veil which concealed his future prospects ; by so doing , her own became for ever blighted ; and it required no ordinary strength of mind to ...
... mother kneeling for a son's life at her hands , -it was her alone that could raise the black veil which concealed his future prospects ; by so doing , her own became for ever blighted ; and it required no ordinary strength of mind to ...
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Page 363 - A SLUMBER did my spirit seal ; •^*- I had no human fears : She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years. No motion has she now, no force ; She neither hears nor sees ; Rolled round in earth's diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, and trees.
Page 361 - OH! BREATHE NOT HIS NAME. OH ! breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonour'd his relics are laid ; Sad, silent, and dark, be the tears that we shed, As the night-dew that falls on the grass o'er his head. But the night-dew that falls, though in silence it weeps, Shall brighten with verdure the grave where he sleeps ; And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.
Page 164 - Prayer is the burden of a sigh ; The falling of a tear ; The upward glancing of an eye When none but God is near. 3 Prayer is the simplest form of speech That infant lips can try ; Prayer, the sublimest strains that reach The majesty on high.
Page 41 - Seeking to find the old familiar faces. Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert not thou born in my father's dwelling? So might we talk of the old familiar faces. How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
Page 41 - For whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because ye belong to Christ, verily I say unto you, he shall not lose his reward.
Page 119 - As the vine which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak, and been lifted by it into sunshine, will, when the hardy plant is rifted by the thunderbolt, cling round it with its caressing tendrils, and bind up its shattered boughs ; so...
Page 164 - Thou, by whom we come to God ! The Life, the Truth, the Way ! The path of prayer Thyself hast trod : Lord, teach us how to pray ! MONTGOMERY.
Page 362 - Under the greenwood tree Who loves to lie with me, And tune his merry note Unto the sweet bird's throat-- Come hither, come hither, come hither! Here shall we see No enemy But winter and rough weather. Who doth ambition shun And loves to live i' the sun, Seeking the food he eats And pleased with what he gets-- Come hither, come hither, come hither!
Page 159 - When on some gilded cloud or flower My gazing soul would dwell an hour, And in those weaker glories spy Some shadows of eternity; Before I taught my tongue to wound My conscience with a sinful sound, Or had the black art to dispense A several sin to every sense, But felt through all this fleshly dress Bright shoots of everlastingness.
Page 220 - All sadness but despair : now gentle gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils. As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past...