Merrimack: Or, Life at the Loom; a TaleRedfield, 1854 - 353 páginas |
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... dear , " answered my mother ; " yet , something grieves me deeply . I know not what it is , beside this separation . " 66 Don't cry so , mother ; you make us feel so bad , " I continued ; " and tell me , won't father return pretty soon ...
... dear , " answered my mother ; " yet , something grieves me deeply . I know not what it is , beside this separation . " 66 Don't cry so , mother ; you make us feel so bad , " I continued ; " and tell me , won't father return pretty soon ...
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... dear ! this parting with a sailor husband is a bitter grief to bear ! Parting at a time , too , when the cheer- fullest things make me so unhappy . " Milly and Hannah directed their steps toward South Salem , and mother , Jesse , and I ...
... dear ! this parting with a sailor husband is a bitter grief to bear ! Parting at a time , too , when the cheer- fullest things make me so unhappy . " Milly and Hannah directed their steps toward South Salem , and mother , Jesse , and I ...
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... dear ones , when we pray that they may be per- mitted 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 ...
... dear ones , when we pray that they may be per- mitted 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 ...
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... dear little home we are going to have one of these days ; and , unless you still insist on Derby - street , and your favorite view of the harbor , I think it must be in Wenham after all , where things look more beautiful than ever to me ...
... dear little home we are going to have one of these days ; and , unless you still insist on Derby - street , and your favorite view of the harbor , I think it must be in Wenham after all , where things look more beautiful than ever to me ...
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... Dear me ! I hope we shall not lose all that money . Have you heard correctly , friend Buxton ? Everybody said Mr. Coleman was a very honest man . We could have put it into the savings bank , but we felt that it would be even safer in ...
... Dear me ! I hope we shall not lose all that money . Have you heard correctly , friend Buxton ? Everybody said Mr. Coleman was a very honest man . We could have put it into the savings bank , but we felt that it would be even safer in ...
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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.