The Story of William and Lucy SmithGeorge Spring Merriam Houghton, Mifflin, 1889 - 666 páginas |
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... seems like a passport to oblivion . His personal history , quite devoid of external adventure , has yet for ... seem to have hindered from due recognition . A biographer may be considered too partial an advocate to set his estimate ...
... seems like a passport to oblivion . His personal history , quite devoid of external adventure , has yet for ... seem to have hindered from due recognition . A biographer may be considered too partial an advocate to set his estimate ...
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... seems to have been a woman of a quite primitive type , full of silent piety , wrapped up in the home and the family . She was of partly German extraction ; her mother had been an eminently saintly character , and I have caught glimpses ...
... seems to have been a woman of a quite primitive type , full of silent piety , wrapped up in the home and the family . She was of partly German extraction ; her mother had been an eminently saintly character , and I have caught glimpses ...
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... seem destined to find their entrance into philosophy , and into its calmest re- cesses , through the avenue of moody ... seems to have interfered , even by tender remonstrance , with her son's perfect liberty . I ex- tract a passage of ...
... seem destined to find their entrance into philosophy , and into its calmest re- cesses , through the avenue of moody ... seems to have interfered , even by tender remonstrance , with her son's perfect liberty . I ex- tract a passage of ...
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... calm and serene ; a child would look into his face and be drawn near to him ; but it seems to him that on his beating heart the very hand of God is lying . CHAPTER II . CLOUDS . THE boy's letter to his 18 WILLIAM SMITH .
... calm and serene ; a child would look into his face and be drawn near to him ; but it seems to him that on his beating heart the very hand of God is lying . CHAPTER II . CLOUDS . THE boy's letter to his 18 WILLIAM SMITH .
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... seems to be an unus- ual serenity in the night , and the stars shine with a softer and more spiritual lustre . I feel as I gaze upon them how easy it is for men to persuade themselves of the hap- piness of future worlds . Fancies all we ...
... seems to be an unus- ual serenity in the night , and the stars shine with a softer and more spiritual lustre . I feel as I gaze upon them how easy it is for men to persuade themselves of the hap- piness of future worlds . Fancies all we ...
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amongst Athelwold beauty believe Blackwood's Magazine Borrowdale bright Brighton called charm cheerful Christian church cloud CONISTON Constable creature dear delight divine Dunkeld Dunstan earth Edinburgh Elfrida evil existence eyes faith fear feel felt give Gravenhurst hand happy hear heart Heaven hope human husband idea intellectual interest J. S. Mill Keswick kind Lady Eastlake letter light live LLANBERIS look Lucy Mary ment mind Miss Mont Blanc moral morning mother mountain nature ness never pain passion Patterdale perfect perhaps philosophy PLAS COCH pleasant pleasure poor punishment religion scene seems sense Serjeant Talfourd society solitude sorrow soul speak spirit story sure sweet sympathy talk tell tender thee things Thomas Constable Thorndale thou thought tion told truth walk whole William Smith wish woman wonder words write
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Página 523 - For woman is not undevelopt man, . But diverse : could we make her as the man, Sweet Love were slain: his dearest bond is this, Not like to like, but like in difference. Yet in the long years liker must they grow; The man be more of woman, she of man; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care...
Página 217 - Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right ; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints...
Página 451 - So, let him wait God's instant men call years ; Meantime hold hard by truth and his great soul, Do out the duty ! Through such souls alone God stooping shows sufficient of His light For us i
Página 217 - How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
Página 588 - For we are saved by hope : but hope that is seen is not hope : for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
Página 664 - Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground ; long heath, brown furze, any thing : The wills above be done ! but I would fain die a dry death.
Página 145 - In the actual world — the painful kingdom of time and place — dwell care and canker and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the Muses sing. But grief cleaves to names and persons and the partial interests of to-day and yesterday.
Página 666 - That friend of mine who lives in God, That God, which ever lives and loves, One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.
Página 457 - Think, when our one soul understands The great Word which makes all things new, When earth breaks up and heaven expands, How will the change strike me and you In the house not made with hands?
Página 639 - Whatever power such a being may have over me, there is one thing which he shall not do : he shall not compel me to worship him. I will call no being good, who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellowcreatures ; and if such a being can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go.