The Living Age, Volume 128E. Littell & Company, 1876 |
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... doubt you can also find one for the best girl on earth . " " Uncle , " said I , taking the book and turning the leaves , " I know what to do : I will say what my heart dictates , and . there is a great deal in my heart to - day ...
... doubt you can also find one for the best girl on earth . " " Uncle , " said I , taking the book and turning the leaves , " I know what to do : I will say what my heart dictates , and . there is a great deal in my heart to - day ...
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... doubt have resisted the temptation to play with the grave surprised admiration evinced by Galbraith lest it might lead to unpleasant results . like , dæmonic , he will pour forth his lava- | self " and the good - looking young vaga ...
... doubt have resisted the temptation to play with the grave surprised admiration evinced by Galbraith lest it might lead to unpleasant results . like , dæmonic , he will pour forth his lava- | self " and the good - looking young vaga ...
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... doubt the first of our British ancestors ( if they were our ances- tors ) who suggested making garments in- stead of dyeing the human skin , was looked upon by the orthodox Druids as a danger- ous innovator . " " That has been said too ...
... doubt the first of our British ancestors ( if they were our ances- tors ) who suggested making garments in- stead of dyeing the human skin , was looked upon by the orthodox Druids as a danger- ous innovator . " " That has been said too ...
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... doubt , these sacristans were , with a due sense of the rich jewels and golden plate of the altars they locked up , and never tired of turning their torches or lanterns on dark corners where felons might lurk in ambush for gem - adorned ...
... doubt , these sacristans were , with a due sense of the rich jewels and golden plate of the altars they locked up , and never tired of turning their torches or lanterns on dark corners where felons might lurk in ambush for gem - adorned ...
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... doubt of ghastly temptations that excelled even St. An- thony's wildest nightmares . Among the Benedictines at least every monk in the convent dormitory had a little chamber to himself , with a window towards the chap- ter - house ...
... doubt of ghastly temptations that excelled even St. An- thony's wildest nightmares . Among the Benedictines at least every monk in the convent dormitory had a little chamber to himself , with a window towards the chap- ter - house ...
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Page 219 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Page 45 - A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast, And fills the white and rustling sail, And bends the gallant mast; And bends the gallant mast, my boys, While, like the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee. O for a soft and gentle wind!
Page 137 - COMFORT ye, comfort ye my people, saith your GOD. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned : for she hath received of the LORD'S hand double for all her sins.
Page 94 - I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree-toad is a...
Page 221 - At intervals, some bird from out the brakes Starts into voice a moment, then is stilL There seems a floating whisper on the hill, But that is fancy, for the starlight dews All silently their tears of love instil, Weeping themselves away, till they infuse Deep into Nature's breast the spirit of her hues.
Page 406 - We only toil, who are the first of things. And make perpetual moan, Still from one sorrow to another thrown : Nor ever fold our wings, And cease from wanderings, Nor steep our brows in slumber's holy balm; Nor harken what the inner spirit sings,
Page 58 - Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood ; That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be...
Page 116 - I cannot say he is everywhere alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid — his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him...
Page 217 - Rockabye Baby, on the tree top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock, When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, Down will come baby, cradle and all.
Page 458 - Ye never dreamt of this, for ten or twenty years after ye began to preach. Ye did not then, like Korah Dathan, and Abiram, seek the priesthood also. Ye knew, ' No man taketh this honour to himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.