The First Lieutenant's Story, Volume 140Routledge, 1856 - 455 pages |
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... father and herself . I felt then , through all that pain and peril , what I have never ceased to feel — the blessedness of loving , and of being able to help those one loves ! Yes , at that moment I felt as if my fate were bound up with ...
... father and herself . I felt then , through all that pain and peril , what I have never ceased to feel — the blessedness of loving , and of being able to help those one loves ! Yes , at that moment I felt as if my fate were bound up with ...
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lady Catharine Long. of her father , such acclamations as I had never before heard , rent the sky . Ungracious as the old man had been before , the moment that his child was in safety , his gratitude seemed to know no bounds . He seized ...
lady Catharine Long. of her father , such acclamations as I had never before heard , rent the sky . Ungracious as the old man had been before , the moment that his child was in safety , his gratitude seemed to know no bounds . He seized ...
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... father is English . Yet I love the Italians This was said with a little look and emphasis which clearly established her claim to her foreign origin ; while it also proved that she had read my prejudices but too clearly in my tone . " Of ...
... father is English . Yet I love the Italians This was said with a little look and emphasis which clearly established her claim to her foreign origin ; while it also proved that she had read my prejudices but too clearly in my tone . " Of ...
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... father used to bring me here sometimes , and we had a little feast - for this is my nurse's house - and she loved to have me here ; and my father liked better to come to her , for a time , than to take another house just at this moment ...
... father used to bring me here sometimes , and we had a little feast - for this is my nurse's house - and she loved to have me here ; and my father liked better to come to her , for a time , than to take another house just at this moment ...
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... father will let me , I will , " she replied , earnestly and solemnly . She rose , and stooped over him again , to try and awaken him ; but his sleep was sound , and she could not rouse him by her gentle efforts . 66 " Don't disturb him ...
... father will let me , I will , " she replied , earnestly and solemnly . She rose , and stooped over him again , to try and awaken him ; but his sleep was sound , and she could not rouse him by her gentle efforts . 66 " Don't disturb him ...
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Page 329 - Blest power of sunshine ! — genial Day, What balm, what life is in thy ray ! To feel thee is such real bliss, That had the world no joy but this, To sit in sunshine calm and sweet, — It were a world too exquisite For man to leave it for the gloom, The deep, cold shadow of the tomb.
Page 156 - O'er youth's bright locks, and beauty's flowery crown, — Yet must thou hear a voice — restore the dead ! Earth shall reclaim her precious things from thee ! — Restore the dead, thou sea ! BRING FLOWERS.
Page 25 - Yet, fill'd with all youth's sweet desires, Mingling the meek and vestal fires Of other worlds with all the bliss, The fond, weak tenderness of this ! A soul, too, more than half divine, Where, through some shades of earthly feeling, Religion's...
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