The Ladies' Repository, Volume 27L. Swormstedt and J.H. Power, 1867 |
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... look at ? Cecilia . A little animal that round my glove , And up and down to every finger's tip , Has traveled merrily , and travels still , Though it has wings to fly : what its name is With learned men I know not ; simple folk Call it ...
... look at ? Cecilia . A little animal that round my glove , And up and down to every finger's tip , Has traveled merrily , and travels still , Though it has wings to fly : what its name is With learned men I know not ; simple folk Call it ...
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... look continually upon Jerusalem even as doves look upon the water - courses . His cheeks represent the two tables of stone , which he gave to his people , and these are written in ten lines , like to the rows of a spice - garden ...
... look continually upon Jerusalem even as doves look upon the water - courses . His cheeks represent the two tables of stone , which he gave to his people , and these are written in ten lines , like to the rows of a spice - garden ...
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... look in a mirror , and you see but your own shadow ; but from whatever stand - point you look upon life , how many images are blended with your own ! The shadows of other lives are so blended with your picture , that you can not see ...
... look in a mirror , and you see but your own shadow ; but from whatever stand - point you look upon life , how many images are blended with your own ! The shadows of other lives are so blended with your picture , that you can not see ...
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... look when neighbor Smith walks up the aisle , or when a butterfly flits in at the open window ; surely you are telling us deep things , and in a style of masterly ingenuity ; why have we so little interest ? My dear sir , your deep ...
... look when neighbor Smith walks up the aisle , or when a butterfly flits in at the open window ; surely you are telling us deep things , and in a style of masterly ingenuity ; why have we so little interest ? My dear sir , your deep ...
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... look into a pair of steady eyes , the clasp of a clean hand , a few sentences of trust in the changeless father , but better , a world better , you had not been born than be delin- quent in these simple debts - this flinging the rope to ...
... look into a pair of steady eyes , the clasp of a clean hand , a few sentences of trust in the changeless father , but better , a world better , you had not been born than be delin- quent in these simple debts - this flinging the rope to ...
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Page 187 - For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
Page 98 - True, I talk of dreams; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind, who wooes Even now the frozen bosom of the north, And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence, Turning his face to the dew-dropping south.
Page 391 - Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll ! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
Page 289 - It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us; that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to...
Page 289 - But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
Page 437 - Therefore when they were gathered together, Pilate said unto them, Whom will ye that I release unto you ? Barabbas, or Jesus which is called Christ ? For he knew that for envy they had delivered Him.
Page 12 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite ; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good.
Page 256 - They chant their artless notes in simple guise ; They tune their hearts, by far the noblest a.im : Perhaps " Dundee's" wild warbling measures rise, Or plaintive
Page 289 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
Page 288 - I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.