Merrimack: Or, Life at the Loom; a TaleRedfield, 1854 - 353 páginas |
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... comfort my mother and the children . My mother detected the gloom which my father could not disguise , and she had frequently wept since the day was set for the vessel to sail . It was not all on account of the long voyage , and years ...
... comfort my mother and the children . My mother detected the gloom which my father could not disguise , and she had frequently wept since the day was set for the vessel to sail . It was not all on account of the long voyage , and years ...
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... to live on earth ! How often in later years have I thought of the comfort he gave us when a child ! How I loved to draw him across my lap and bury my face betwixt the fillets of fat which bound on his double 14 MERRIMACK ;
... to live on earth ! How often in later years have I thought of the comfort he gave us when a child ! How I loved to draw him across my lap and bury my face betwixt the fillets of fat which bound on his double 14 MERRIMACK ;
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... comfort in their humble home . Amelia - or Milly , as we called her , and as I shall call her often in my history - Milly Dorlon was not an intellectual girl , and she did not manifest much force of character , while her appearance was ...
... comfort in their humble home . Amelia - or Milly , as we called her , and as I shall call her often in my history - Milly Dorlon was not an intellectual girl , and she did not manifest much force of character , while her appearance was ...
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... comfort . They came over about one o'clock , but found us not at home . Mother took a little breakfast on the return , but her house was so lonely she kept Jesse and me from school for company , and sat down to her sewing and tried to ...
... comfort . They came over about one o'clock , but found us not at home . Mother took a little breakfast on the return , but her house was so lonely she kept Jesse and me from school for company , and sat down to her sewing and tried to ...
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... comfort for my mother . soothed her nerves and solaced her lonely soul . She read her lesson that evening with a clearer voice and more cheerful spirit , and found an early and a grateful sleep . The next day we had visitors from Wenham ...
... comfort for my mother . soothed her nerves and solaced her lonely soul . She read her lesson that evening with a clearer voice and more cheerful spirit , and found an early and a grateful sleep . The next day we had visitors from Wenham ...
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Página 209 - OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?
Página 211 - ... an angel might share. The long slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light. From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea. I seem to partake its rapid transformations : the active enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind.
Página 228 - For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead ? 16 For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy : and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
Página 212 - The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. The laws of moral nature answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass. "The visible world and the relation of its parts is the dial plate of the invisible.
Página 215 - Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.
Página 212 - How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements? Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria; the sunset and moonrise my Paphos and unimaginable realms of faerie; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and understanding; the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams.
Página 261 - Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe...
Página 299 - There is a day of sunny rest For every dark and troubled night; And grief may bide an evening guest, But joy shall come with early light.
Página 211 - Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space,—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing ; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.