The First Lieutenant's Story, Volume 140Routledge, 1856 - 455 pages |
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... happiness , " and so forth ; my voice trembling so with suppressed emotion , that I was in terrible fear lest he should observe it . He seemed to make out more of my meaning , however , than I did myself , for he told me " my sentiments ...
... happiness , " and so forth ; my voice trembling so with suppressed emotion , that I was in terrible fear lest he should observe it . He seemed to make out more of my meaning , however , than I did myself , for he told me " my sentiments ...
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... happiness , that every- thing was beautiful in my eyes ; and I set about my various duties , wearisome as they often were , as if they had been the chosen joys of my heart . I longed though for my night - watch , that I might , without ...
... happiness , that every- thing was beautiful in my eyes ; and I set about my various duties , wearisome as they often were , as if they had been the chosen joys of my heart . I longed though for my night - watch , that I might , without ...
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... happiness ? Whose happiness had I ever sought before in life ? What motive of action had I ever had but my own most wilful will ? " These thoughts thronged thickly upon me , and oppressed my mind with a weight I had never experienced ...
... happiness ? Whose happiness had I ever sought before in life ? What motive of action had I ever had but my own most wilful will ? " These thoughts thronged thickly upon me , and oppressed my mind with a weight I had never experienced ...
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... happiness ; " I felt it would be but watching over my own ! Great was my enjoyment that day , and much benefit did I always derive from my conversations with Miss Sydney ; for there was a charm in her words which dropped into my heart ...
... happiness ; " I felt it would be but watching over my own ! Great was my enjoyment that day , and much benefit did I always derive from my conversations with Miss Sydney ; for there was a charm in her words which dropped into my heart ...
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... happiness did I enjoy so cloudless a time as then . It was not merely that I was with her whom I loved , but it was the power , new to me , of loving , of living out of the narrow bounds of one's own poor selfish self . I seemed almost ...
... happiness did I enjoy so cloudless a time as then . It was not merely that I was with her whom I loved , but it was the power , new to me , of loving , of living out of the narrow bounds of one's own poor selfish self . I seemed almost ...
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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...
Page 356 - Slave, I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die: I think, there be six Richmonds in the field ; Five have I slain to-day, instead of him: — A horse ! a horse ! my kingdom for a horse ! [Exeunt.
Page 156 - Give back the lost and lovely ! those for whom The place was kept at board and hearth so long, The prayer went up...