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... passion that they look upon it , that but I lose myself in an absurd attempt at expressing my thoughts very confusedly by metaphors ; briefly , I think women who reflect and observe at all , are more absolute in their views than men ...
... passion that they look upon it , that but I lose myself in an absurd attempt at expressing my thoughts very confusedly by metaphors ; briefly , I think women who reflect and observe at all , are more absolute in their views than men ...
Page 76
... passion of his heart , as the beauteous being who had sacrificed her life for him , and worshipped as the sainted one , who had opened to him the way to heaven . With her , every thought was in common , every feeling shared but this his ...
... passion of his heart , as the beauteous being who had sacrificed her life for him , and worshipped as the sainted one , who had opened to him the way to heaven . With her , every thought was in common , every feeling shared but this his ...
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... passions sprung up between them , which we call love at first sight . An expression which faintly indicates the deep , mysterious , inexplicable sympathy which thus binds one human being to another , stronger than death , and deeper ...
... passions sprung up between them , which we call love at first sight . An expression which faintly indicates the deep , mysterious , inexplicable sympathy which thus binds one human being to another , stronger than death , and deeper ...
Page 82
... passion of his life . He suffered upon the galleys all that the man of soft and elegant habits , refined tastes , and exquisite moral and physical sensibility has to suffer under that execrable form of penal infliction . Yet to him it ...
... passion of his life . He suffered upon the galleys all that the man of soft and elegant habits , refined tastes , and exquisite moral and physical sensibility has to suffer under that execrable form of penal infliction . Yet to him it ...
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... passion of delighted admiration , as he drank it all in . And , as the bustle of carriages gradually gave way , and the crowd of spectators began to disperse , just as the last party , consisting of a very beautiful splendidly - attired ...
... passion of delighted admiration , as he drank it all in . And , as the bustle of carriages gradually gave way , and the crowd of spectators began to disperse , just as the last party , consisting of a very beautiful splendidly - attired ...
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Page 299 - Women received their dead raised to life again; and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection.
Page 299 - Samuel, and of the prophets : who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
Page 19 - Thou art, of what sort the eternal life of the saints was to be, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.
Page 217 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Page 209 - I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows ; Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine...
Page 233 - The broken sheds look'd sad and strange: Unlifted was the clinking latch; Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange. She only said, ' My life is dreary, He cometh not...
Page 266 - From each she nicely culls with curious toil And decks the goddess with the glittering spoil. This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box; The tortoise here and elephant unite, Transformed to combs, the speckled, and the white.
Page 187 - So let the change which comes be free To ingroove itself with that which flies, And work, a joint of state, that plies Its office, moved with sympathy.
Page 68 - He cast a look of despair around him. " When I reflect that if it had but been last year that consent was given, and that now I should have been there, and should already have satiated myself with Italy — that I should have been safely landed there, and it would have been useless to recall me — that I should there have learned that which, if not learned, what is art ? That I should have become what I feel I might, and now never can become ; for time, inexorable time, the golden years of my youth,...
Page 232 - But you will be wearied with this sad and monotonous subject. I thought to have followed in detail, the long struggles of this arduous existence, and the gradual advance of Evelyn in that path of the just, which shineth more and more unto the perfect day.