Lone Life: A Year in the Wilderness, Volume 2Chapman and Hall, 1875 |
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Page 292 - Father!" at length he murmured low, and wept like childhood then; Talk not of grief till thou hast seen the tears of warlike men! He thought on all his glorious hopes, and all his young renown ; He flung the falchion from his side, and in the dust sat down.
Page 162 - There Is a pleasure in the pathless woods. There Is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society, where none intrude!, ' By the deep Sea, and music in its roar.
Page 153 - Oh death ! where is thy sting 1 Oh grave ! where is thy victory ? Thanks be unto God, which giveth [me] the victory, through [my] Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 82 - I do not for a moment wish it to be understood that I think that Dr.
Page 251 - As far as the eye could see in either direction there was no traffic at all.
Page 194 - There was so much to hear and so much to tell, that I determined to postpone our conversation to another occasion on the plea of feeling fatigued.