Merrimack: Or, Life at the Loom; a TaleRedfield, 1854 - 353 páginas |
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... fancied that an artist must admire . Her form was grace and majesty combined . Her features were chiselled as finely as those of a Grecian grace , with a full , smooth forehead , and nose and mouth expressing intelligence , spiritual ...
... fancied that an artist must admire . Her form was grace and majesty combined . Her features were chiselled as finely as those of a Grecian grace , with a full , smooth forehead , and nose and mouth expressing intelligence , spiritual ...
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... fancied that it was wrong to live in houses . They called me vain for this , ( and I suppose my critics will call me sentimental , ) but I knew they shared more of my feelings than they were willing to confess . I fancied that we ought ...
... fancied that it was wrong to live in houses . They called me vain for this , ( and I suppose my critics will call me sentimental , ) but I knew they shared more of my feelings than they were willing to confess . I fancied that we ought ...
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... fancied that he was Lydia Buxton ; and what should he do but steal into her closet and put on one of her meekest dove - colored gowns , a very peaceful cap , a sober cloak and hood , and enter the meeting , as they were weighing the ...
... fancied that he was Lydia Buxton ; and what should he do but steal into her closet and put on one of her meekest dove - colored gowns , a very peaceful cap , a sober cloak and hood , and enter the meeting , as they were weighing the ...
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... remembrance of an erring and a wasted youth . I remember how her sense of the ludicrous was touched , and how she laughed and cried together , when I told her the incident of the little maniac who fancied that he 112 MERRIMACK ;
... remembrance of an erring and a wasted youth . I remember how her sense of the ludicrous was touched , and how she laughed and cried together , when I told her the incident of the little maniac who fancied that he 112 MERRIMACK ;
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... fancied that he was Lydia Buxton and stole her attire , and bore her testimony at yearly meeting . Agnes Newman gave a grace and dignity to labor , and persons visiting the mill were almost certain to speak with her , and seemed to go ...
... fancied that he was Lydia Buxton and stole her attire , and bore her testimony at yearly meeting . Agnes Newman gave a grace and dignity to labor , and persons visiting the mill were almost certain to speak with her , and seemed to go ...
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Página 211 - In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods, we return to reason and faith.
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.