The Ladies' Cabinet of Fashion, Music & Romance, Volume 3Geo. Henderson, 1840 |
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... tears . This splendour of ours is stern , and those traces of nobility with which you are so much pleased , are a long series of epitaphs and tombs which we must perforce garland with flowers . We must fill with living beings a gloomy ...
... tears . This splendour of ours is stern , and those traces of nobility with which you are so much pleased , are a long series of epitaphs and tombs which we must perforce garland with flowers . We must fill with living beings a gloomy ...
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... tears overflow my cheek , as they were wont to do in those evenings on the mountain , when he sang me a romance com . posed for me in the morning . Some expressions which I heard by some of his companions , increased my melancholy and ...
... tears overflow my cheek , as they were wont to do in those evenings on the mountain , when he sang me a romance com . posed for me in the morning . Some expressions which I heard by some of his companions , increased my melancholy and ...
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... tears . " Oh , mother ! mother ! " I exclaimed , " what has your daughter come to ! " Leoni made an effort to calm me , and he succeeded but too quickly . He knelt before me , kissed my hands , conjured me to despise such nonsense , and ...
... tears . " Oh , mother ! mother ! " I exclaimed , " what has your daughter come to ! " Leoni made an effort to calm me , and he succeeded but too quickly . He knelt before me , kissed my hands , conjured me to despise such nonsense , and ...
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... tear it to pieces ; risk it entire ; win it back , piece by piece ; put it in his purse ; throw it on the table . Ask the sailor if he can live on land ; ask the bird if it can be happy ness . without its wings ; or the heart of man ...
... tear it to pieces ; risk it entire ; win it back , piece by piece ; put it in his purse ; throw it on the table . Ask the sailor if he can live on land ; ask the bird if it can be happy ness . without its wings ; or the heart of man ...
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... tears that streamed from her eyes at sight of him , saw that all was over . He pressed her hand in sympathy ; and perceiving that she was unable to answer his questions , he bowed and left the house . In a short time Mr. Brooks arrived ...
... tears that streamed from her eyes at sight of him , saw that all was over . He pressed her hand in sympathy ; and perceiving that she was unable to answer his questions , he bowed and left the house . In a short time Mr. Brooks arrived ...
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Page 120 - Why art thou cast down, O my soul ? and why art thou disquieted in me ? hope thou in God : for 1 shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
Page 334 - And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem: but they brought him not into the sepulchres of the kings of Israel : and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.
Page 254 - Still a few drops within it lay; And round the sacred table glow Twelve lofty lamps, in splendid row, From the purest metal cast; A spoil — the richest, and the last.
Page 209 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Page 165 - On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; Even from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Even in our ashes live their wonted fires.
Page 150 - The Reaper said, and smiled ; "Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where he was once a child. "They shall all bloom in fields of light, Transplanted by my care, And saints upon their garments white, These sacred blossoms wear.
Page 149 - He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes, He kissed their drooping leaves ; It was for the Lord of Paradise He bound them in his sheaves. My Lord has need of these flowerets gay, The Reaper said, and smiled : Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where he was once a child.
Page 334 - Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being desired. Howbeit they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.
Page 122 - THE night is come, but not too soon ; And sinking silently, All silently, the little moon Drops down behind the sky. There is no light in earth or heaven, But the cold light of stars ; And the first watch of night is given To the red planet Mars.
Page 120 - THE DINNER OF THE MONTHS. ONCE upon a time, the Months determined to dine together. They were a long while deciding who should have the honour of being the Host upon so solemn an occasion; but the lot at length fell upon December, for although this old gentleman's manners were found to be rather cold upon first acquaintance, yet it was well known that when once you got under his roof, there was not a merrier, or more hospitable, person in existence. The messenger too...