The Oasis: Or, Golden Leaves of FriendshipWentworth & Company, 1856 - 272 pages |
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... Grace was in all her steps ; heaven in her eye ; In all her gestures , dignity and love . " When the judgment has been disciplined by thought , and the taste refined by cultivation , the moral feelings , as a natural consequence , will ...
... Grace was in all her steps ; heaven in her eye ; In all her gestures , dignity and love . " When the judgment has been disciplined by thought , and the taste refined by cultivation , the moral feelings , as a natural consequence , will ...
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... grace , The heritage of nature's noblest race , There is a spot of earth supremely blest , A dearer , sweeter spot than all the rest , Where man , creation's tyrant , casts aside His sword and sceptre , pageantry and pride , While in ...
... grace , The heritage of nature's noblest race , There is a spot of earth supremely blest , A dearer , sweeter spot than all the rest , Where man , creation's tyrant , casts aside His sword and sceptre , pageantry and pride , While in ...
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... grace ? One would not think there were concealed Such beauty in the lily's root , As blossoms forth upon the field What time the lilies shoot . And when the clouds collect on high , Like battle chariots of the storm , See how the ...
... grace ? One would not think there were concealed Such beauty in the lily's root , As blossoms forth upon the field What time the lilies shoot . And when the clouds collect on high , Like battle chariots of the storm , See how the ...
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... grace , The household things around thy home , And each thing in its place . And then thy own trim , modest form Is always neatly clad ; Thou sure wilt make the tidiest wife That ever husband had . No costly splendors needest thou , To ...
... grace , The household things around thy home , And each thing in its place . And then thy own trim , modest form Is always neatly clad ; Thou sure wilt make the tidiest wife That ever husband had . No costly splendors needest thou , To ...
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... grace ? Echo , let thy voice awake , Over river , stream , and lake : Answer , where does beauty go ? · — Where is fled the south wind's snow ? Where is Eloise the wise , For whose two bewitching eyes Hapless Abelard was doomed In his ...
... grace ? Echo , let thy voice awake , Over river , stream , and lake : Answer , where does beauty go ? · — Where is fled the south wind's snow ? Where is Eloise the wise , For whose two bewitching eyes Hapless Abelard was doomed In his ...
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Page 236 - I forget the hallowed grove, Where by the winding Ayr we met, To live one day of parting love ! " Eternity will not efface Those records dear of transports past ; Thy image at our last embrace ; Ah ! little thought we 'twas our last ! " Ayr gurgling kiss'd his pebbled shore, O'erhung with wild woods, thickening, green, The fragrant birch, and hawthorn hoar, Twin'd amorous round the raptured scene.
Page 217 - They sin who tell us Love can die. With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. In Heaven Ambition cannot dwell, Nor Avarice in the vaults of Hell ; Earthly these passions of the Earth, They perish where they have their birth ; But Love is indestructible. Its holy flame for ever burneth, From Heaven it came, to Heaven returneth...
Page 98 - FRIEND after friend departs ; Who hath not lost a friend ? There is no union here of hearts, That finds not here an end : Were this frail world our only rest, Living or dying none were blest.
Page 236 - Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes, And fondly broods with miser care : Time but the impression deeper makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.
Page 208 - It is not that my lot is low, That bids this silent tear to flow; It is not grief that bids me moan; It is that I am all alone. In woods and glens I love to roam, When the tired hedger hies him home; Or by the woodland pool to rest, When pale the star looks on its breast. Yet when the silent evening sighs, With hallow'd airs and symphonies, My spirit takes another tone, And sighs that it is all alone.
Page 159 - I know nothing that could, in this view, be said better, than " do unto others as ye would that others should do unto you...
Page 232 - My Highland lassie was a warm-hearted, charming young creature as ever blessed a man with generous love. After a pretty long tract of the most ardent reciprocal attachment, we met by appointment on the second Sunday of May, in a sequestered spot by the banks of Ayr, where we spent the day in taking...
Page 160 - If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth liberally and upbraideth not.
Page 232 - Again ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not, forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths...
Page 68 - Oh if there is one law above the rest Written in wisdom — if there is a word That I would trace as with a pen of fire Upon the unsunn'd temper of a child — If there is any thing that keeps the mind Open to angel visits, and repels The ministry of ill — 'tis human love ! God has made nothing worthy of contempt.