New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 147Henry Colburn, 1870 |
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... truth known to Priscilla , with such means of proof as I might have been able to discover , I should accomplish a threefold purpose . She would be released from the most miserable of all thraldoms , that which springs from a false idea ...
... truth known to Priscilla , with such means of proof as I might have been able to discover , I should accomplish a threefold purpose . She would be released from the most miserable of all thraldoms , that which springs from a false idea ...
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... truth that in this life we have constant need to wait with patience for the blessing that is for a time withheld . For it was on a Thursday , as we count days , that the light of our Redeemer's visible presence was taken from the world ...
... truth that in this life we have constant need to wait with patience for the blessing that is for a time withheld . For it was on a Thursday , as we count days , that the light of our Redeemer's visible presence was taken from the world ...
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... truth of what he told me . " Yes , but not a Roman Catholic establishment . " " Oh , one of our Anglican sisterhoods . " " No , not that either ; it belongs to a set of people who were about the first dissenters from Rome , before ...
... truth of what he told me . " Yes , but not a Roman Catholic establishment . " " Oh , one of our Anglican sisterhoods . " " No , not that either ; it belongs to a set of people who were about the first dissenters from Rome , before ...
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... truth , the lips , in the rest of death , did look ( we read ) as though they wore a smile ; and the waving light of the unsnuffed candle almost made them seem to move . - In the same writer's pathetic story of Ruth , the last chapter ...
... truth , the lips , in the rest of death , did look ( we read ) as though they wore a smile ; and the waving light of the unsnuffed candle almost made them seem to move . - In the same writer's pathetic story of Ruth , the last chapter ...
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... truth seems to beam forth from her kind and loving heart . As she bends over her father to place a moss - rose in his button - hole , Katty gazes on him with all the pride of her girlish soul ; he whom she always looked upon as ...
... truth seems to beam forth from her kind and loving heart . As she bends over her father to place a moss - rose in his button - hole , Katty gazes on him with all the pride of her girlish soul ; he whom she always looked upon as ...
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Page 367 - And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
Page 362 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.
Page 690 - Which through the summer is not heard or seen. As if it could not be, as if it had not been! Thus let thy power, which like the truth Of nature on my passive youth Descended, to my onward life supply Its calm, — to one who worships thee, And every form containing thee.
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Page 145 - Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific— and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise— Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Page 329 - This is the prettiest low-born lass that ever Ran on the green-sward : nothing she does or seems But smacks of something greater than herself, Too noble for this place.
Page 28 - On parent knees, a naked new-born child Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled ; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep.
Page 244 - Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 725 - ... to establish a commercial code on the principles successfully negotiated by Lord Bolingbroke at Utrecht, and which, though baffled at the time by a Whig parliament, were subsequently and triumphantly vindicated by his political pupil and heir Mr.
Page 205 - Shepherd, I take thy word, And trust thy honest-offered courtesy, Which oft is sooner found in lowly sheds With smoky rafters, than in tap'stry halls And courts of princes, where it first was named, And yet is most pretended...