Literary recreations; or, Scenes from real lifeWhittaker & Company, 1833 - 323 pagini |
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Pagina 13
... soul . I felt disposed to move from my seat , but an invisible chain bound me to the spot . The unexpectedness of the sounds had deprived me of the proper exercise of thought : I gazed , with strained eyes , and listened , with ...
... soul . I felt disposed to move from my seat , but an invisible chain bound me to the spot . The unexpectedness of the sounds had deprived me of the proper exercise of thought : I gazed , with strained eyes , and listened , with ...
Pagina 25
... soul appeared all affection ; the very element in which he lived was kindness . Noble , generous , coura- geous , and manly even in childhood , he won , in- sensibly , the hearts of all who knew him . Egbert , with the keen eye of the ...
... soul appeared all affection ; the very element in which he lived was kindness . Noble , generous , coura- geous , and manly even in childhood , he won , in- sensibly , the hearts of all who knew him . Egbert , with the keen eye of the ...
Pagina 31
... soul's calm blessedness , Assum'd the maniac's vacant , idle stare ; And , like a tender hot - house plant , she fell Beneath th ' unpitying storm's rude blast . " THE pledge was renewed , that Egbert should be forgiven , and the ...
... soul's calm blessedness , Assum'd the maniac's vacant , idle stare ; And , like a tender hot - house plant , she fell Beneath th ' unpitying storm's rude blast . " THE pledge was renewed , that Egbert should be forgiven , and the ...
Pagina 48
... soul - in which piety and affec- tion were blended - to his Emma and his parents . Another week passed , and hopes - faint ones in- deed - were entertained of his recovery . He had so far recovered his strength , as to be able to rise ...
... soul - in which piety and affec- tion were blended - to his Emma and his parents . Another week passed , and hopes - faint ones in- deed - were entertained of his recovery . He had so far recovered his strength , as to be able to rise ...
Pagina 50
... feet , - Oh ! brother , spare me .'- But pity had fled my satanic breast . I stayed not my hand until I had stained my soul with my brother's blood . From a gaping wound in his forehead I saw his life ebb out . A fearful 50 THE BROTHERS .
... feet , - Oh ! brother , spare me .'- But pity had fled my satanic breast . I stayed not my hand until I had stained my soul with my brother's blood . From a gaping wound in his forehead I saw his life ebb out . A fearful 50 THE BROTHERS .
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abode Adolphus affection affectionate agony Alfred anxiety appeared arms attention awhile beauty became beheld Belmont beloved bosom bright eye brother Captain cation cerned character charms cheek cheerful child Chowanskoi circumstances conduct countenance dear death ears Egbert Emma engaged entered Eudocia Eustace exclaimed father favoured fear feelings fell felt Freeport frequently friendship furnished gazed gentle gentleman George O'Brien Wyndham Gibraltar Gilbert grief habit hand happy Harmer heard heart honour Hugglescote instantly Lake Erie Laura looked Lord Exmouth marriage mind morning mother nature never noble observed occasion Ohobyholio Olivia Overreach parents passed perceived period person pleasure possessed present racter reached received retired river Avon rose scarcely scenes seat seemed silent smile Sobiesky soon sorrow soul spirit stood stranger tale tears things thought threw town trafficker in human turned uncon Valdai voice walked Waltingham wife youth
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Pagina 86 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0 Solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place.
Pagina 112 - The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, At the presence of the LORD of the whole earth.
Pagina 211 - Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
Pagina 69 - A messenger of grace to guilty men. Behold the picture ! — Is it like ? — Like whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again : pronounce a text, Cry, hem ! and, reading -what they never wrote Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene.
Pagina 72 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Pagina 209 - A blank, my lord : She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek : she pined in thought ; And, with a green and yellow melancholy, She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
Pagina 205 - Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
Pagina 14 - To set before your sight your glorious race, That this presaging joy may fire your mind To seek the shores by destiny design'd." — "O father, can it be, that souls sublime Return to visit our terrestrial clime, And that the gen'rous mind, releas'd by death, Can covet lazy limbs and mortal breath?
Pagina 309 - Farewell ! a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man : to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him . The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And, — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Pagina 197 - Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.