The life and death of Llewellynn Jewitt, with mem. of some of his friends, especially of S.C. Hall

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Page 423 - Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right ; for that shall bring a man peace at the last.
Page 262 - Twas not her soft magic of streamlet or hill — Oh no! it was something more exquisite still. 'Twas that friends, the beloved of my bosom, were near, Who made every dear scene of enchantment more dear, And who felt how the best charms of nature improve When we see them reflected from looks that we love.
Page 19 - Ever charming, ever new, When will the landscape tire the view ! The fountain's fall, the river's flow, The woody valleys, warm and low ; The windy summit, wild and high, "Roughly rushing on the sky ! The pleasant seat, the ruin'd tower, The naked rock, the shady bower ; The town and village, dome and farm, Each give each a double charm, As pearls upon an Ethiop's arm.
Page 437 - There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.
Page 513 - Dead most dear, I hold the breath of my soul to hear ! " I listen ; as deep as to horrible hell, As high as to heaven ! — and you do not tell !
Page 248 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!
Page 513 - With a shudder, to glance at its stillness and gloom. But he who loved her too well to dread The sweet, the stately, the beautiful dead, He lit his lamp and took the key And turned it. Alone again — he and she! He and she ; but she would not speak, Though he kissed, in the old place, the quiet cheek. He and she ; yet she would not smile, Though he called her the name she loved ere-while.
Page 513 - they said to him ; " come away ; Kiss her and leave her, — thy love is clay ! " They smoothed her tresses of dark brown hair; On her forehead of stone they laid it fair ; Over her eyes that gazed too much They drew the lids with a gentle touch ; With a tender touch they closed up well The sweet thin lips that had secrets to tell ; About her brows and beautiful face They tied her veil and her...
Page 47 - ... that they were all merrie ; and one of them had his wife with him, which sate so modestly, as any of our countrey women would do in a strange place.
Page 13 - Will play the cook, and servant; 'tis our match : The sweat of industry would dry, and die, But for the end it works to. Come; our stomachs Will make what's homely, savoury: Weariness Can snore upon the flint, when restive sloth Finds the down pillow hard.

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