The Wedding Guest: A Friend of the Bride and BridegroomTimothy Shay Arthur H.C. Peck & Theo. Bliss, 1856 - 294 páginas |
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... dear Louise , " replied her aunt . " See only that you continue happy together . " " Oh , who can doubt that we shall continue so ! I know myself . I have faults , indeed , but my love for him will correct them . And so long as we love ...
... dear Louise , " replied her aunt . " See only that you continue happy together . " " Oh , who can doubt that we shall continue so ! I know myself . I have faults , indeed , but my love for him will correct them . And so long as we love ...
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... Dear child , remember this - even the heart in time grows cold . Days will come when the magic of the senses shall fade . And when this enchant- ment has fled , then it first becomes evident whether we are truly worthy of love . When ...
... Dear child , remember this - even the heart in time grows cold . Days will come when the magic of the senses shall fade . And when this enchant- ment has fled , then it first becomes evident whether we are truly worthy of love . When ...
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... Dear aunt ! you know I believe you in everything . You mean , that enduring happiness and lasting love are not insured to us by accidental qualities , by fleeting charms , but only by those virtues of the mind which we bring to each ...
... Dear aunt ! you know I believe you in everything . You mean , that enduring happiness and lasting love are not insured to us by accidental qualities , by fleeting charms , but only by those virtues of the mind which we bring to each ...
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... Dear aunt , you make me almost angry . My future husband can never degenerate thus . He has one virtue which will preserve him as he is for ever . A deep sense , an indestructible feeling for everything that is great and good and noble ...
... Dear aunt , you make me almost angry . My future husband can never degenerate thus . He has one virtue which will preserve him as he is for ever . A deep sense , an indestructible feeling for everything that is great and good and noble ...
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... dear child ! Wert thou always as fresh and beautiful as to - day , still thy hus- band's eye would by custom of years become indifferent to these advantages . Custom is the greatest enchantress in the world , and in the house one of the ...
... dear child ! Wert thou always as fresh and beautiful as to - day , still thy hus- band's eye would by custom of years become indifferent to these advantages . Custom is the greatest enchantress in the world , and in the house one of the ...
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Página 19 - Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years ; and was gathered to his people.
Página 100 - Ay, go to the grave of buried love, and meditate ! There settle the account with thy conscience for every past benefit unrequited ; every past endearment unregarded, of that departed being, who can never — never — never return to be soothed by thy contrition!
Página 31 - There's a bliss beyond all that the minstrel has told, When two, that are link'd in one heavenly tie, With heart never changing and brow never cold, Love on through all ills, and love on till they die...
Página 276 - Here is the proper scene of piety and patience, of the duty of parents and the charity of relatives; here kindness is spread abroad, and love is united and made firm as a centre: marriage is the nursery of heaven...
Página 271 - Our modern celebrated clubs are founded upon eating and drinking, which are points wherein most men agree, and in which the learned and the illiterate, the dull and the airy, the philosopher and the buffoon, can all of them bear a part.
Página 277 - Marriage is the mother of the world, and preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself. Celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity...
Página 108 - If health be firm — if friends be true — If self be well controlled, If tastes be pure — if wants be few — And not too often told — If reason always rule the heart...
Página 241 - Scarcely did she perceive the earth Which covered the bottom of her abode than she extended her wings, with some effort, bringing them before her head, crossing them in every direction, throwing them from side to side, and producing so many singular contortions, that all her four wings fell off at the same moment in my presence.
Página 57 - Tis noon — a calm, unbroken sleep Is on the blue waves of the deep ; A soft haze, like a fairy dream, Is floating over wood and stream ; And many a broad magnolia flower, Within its shadowy woodland bower, Is gleaming like a lovely star ; But I am sad— thou art afar!
Página 277 - ... of love, and the delicacies of friendship, the blessing of society, and the union of hands and hearts; it hath in it less of beauty, but more of safety, than the single life; it hath more care, but less danger ; it is more merry, and more sad ; is fuller of sorrows, and fuller of joys; it lies under more burdens, but is supported by all the strengths of love and charity, and those burdens are delightful.