Odd Fellows' Literary Casket, Volumes 1-2Tidball & Turner, 1854 |
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... feel their power , and be redeemed from the thrall of selfishness . Whether Odd - Fellowship will be true to these principles , and develop them in all their beauty , the future alone can answer . But when we consider that the ...
... feel their power , and be redeemed from the thrall of selfishness . Whether Odd - Fellowship will be true to these principles , and develop them in all their beauty , the future alone can answer . But when we consider that the ...
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... feel pain and oppression , and rise up against it in their own rough and savage way . Let this one fact , also , bear witness to the dis- content of the Russian people under frightful despotism which weighs upon them , that the present ...
... feel pain and oppression , and rise up against it in their own rough and savage way . Let this one fact , also , bear witness to the dis- content of the Russian people under frightful despotism which weighs upon them , that the present ...
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... feeling prevailed all over the country . The Poles , who had been enslaved by the Russians in Lithuania , also hailed Napoleon with enthusiasm as a liberator . But Russian and Polish slaves were alike doomed to disappointment . Napoleon ...
... feeling prevailed all over the country . The Poles , who had been enslaved by the Russians in Lithuania , also hailed Napoleon with enthusiasm as a liberator . But Russian and Polish slaves were alike doomed to disappointment . Napoleon ...
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... feeling which places us on a level with the humblest , and makes us feel that no human creature is to us an alien ; -these are the divinely pure soul of charity ; they take all offense and humiliation out of our beneficence , and return ...
... feeling which places us on a level with the humblest , and makes us feel that no human creature is to us an alien ; -these are the divinely pure soul of charity ; they take all offense and humiliation out of our beneficence , and return ...
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... feel that to her it is covered with a veil . A smiling sky bends over her , making but the more striking , by contrast , the anguish of her eye . Yet resignation is there ; that mild glance upward speaks of it ; -the blue above is ...
... feel that to her it is covered with a veil . A smiling sky bends over her , making but the more striking , by contrast , the anguish of her eye . Yet resignation is there ; that mild glance upward speaks of it ; -the blue above is ...
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Page 92 - And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong ; Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along From peak to peak the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud ! And this is in the night.
Page 144 - After laying down my pen I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Page 31 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder?
Page 92 - And this is in the night : — Most glorious night ! Thou wert not sent for slumber ! let me be A sharer in thy fierce and far delight, — A portion of the tempest and of thee...
Page 144 - I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting...
Page 46 - There is a land, of every land the pride, Beloved by heaven o'er all the world beside...
Page 138 - Egypt. Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
Page 196 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 43 - THE day is cold, and dark, and dreary ; It rains, and the wind is never weary ; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary.
Page 116 - And with them the Being Beauteous Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies.