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... wish , it yet was not in his power to sup- can hardly be conceived than this remarkable press . There cannot be two opinions as to Diary , quite apart from the interest that must the indelicacy that allowed so premature a attach to so ...
... wish , it yet was not in his power to sup- can hardly be conceived than this remarkable press . There cannot be two opinions as to Diary , quite apart from the interest that must the indelicacy that allowed so premature a attach to so ...
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... and there , we are told , " no one rules in the true sense . There is no centre and no combination . A wish there is , but no will . Everybody shirks re- mit steadily to any one dominant influence , through our 10 GENTZ'S DIARY .
... and there , we are told , " no one rules in the true sense . There is no centre and no combination . A wish there is , but no will . Everybody shirks re- mit steadily to any one dominant influence , through our 10 GENTZ'S DIARY .
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... wish to harm you . dom cared to reveal , and in the end almost But how about yourselves ? Will you leave entirely lost : " At three in the afternoon me in quiet ? I am willing to believe that got into the carriage with Count Stadion ...
... wish to harm you . dom cared to reveal , and in the end almost But how about yourselves ? Will you leave entirely lost : " At three in the afternoon me in quiet ? I am willing to believe that got into the carriage with Count Stadion ...
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... wish to re- strain himself , it seemed to him at last to be useless , hopeless , further to prolong a scene so eminently painful . He thought that he had done all that was possible for son to do that he would now go his way ; for indeed ...
... wish to re- strain himself , it seemed to him at last to be useless , hopeless , further to prolong a scene so eminently painful . He thought that he had done all that was possible for son to do that he would now go his way ; for indeed ...
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... wish papa would come home . Oh ! there , now , I've broken my pencil . Where's my knife [ cut , cut , cut ] ? " " You know , Madge , poor old Mr. Had- field is very ill indeed , and of course papa felt bound to stay with him . The ...
... wish papa would come home . Oh ! there , now , I've broken my pencil . Where's my knife [ cut , cut , cut ] ? " " You know , Madge , poor old Mr. Had- field is very ill indeed , and of course papa felt bound to stay with him . The ...
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Page 359 - SWEET day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night, For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die. Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like season'd...
Page 359 - Not, that he may not here Taste of the cheer : But as birds drink, and straight lift up their head ; So must he sip, and think Of better drink He may attain to, after he is dead.
Page 356 - Ferrar, and tell him he shall find in it a picture of the many spiritual conflicts that have passed betwixt God and my soul, before I could subject mine to the will of Jesus my Master, in whose service I have now found perfect freedom...
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Page 358 - Sir, said she, Tell me, I pray, whose hands are those ? But thou shalt answer, Lord, for me. Then Money came, and chinking still, What tune is this, poor man ? said he : I heard in Music you had skill: But thou shalt answer, Lord, for me.
Page 242 - ENOUGH ! we're tired, my heart and I. We sit beside the headstone thus, And wish that name were carved for us. The moss reprints more tenderly The hard types of the mason's knife, As heaven's sweet life renews earth's life With which we're tired, my heart and I, You see we're tired, my heart and I.
Page 470 - In traversing that county one will discover numerous farmhouses, once the abode of industrious and intelligent freemen, now occupied by slaves, or tenantless, deserted, and dilapidated ; he will observe fields, once fertile, now unfenced, abandoned, and covered with those evil harbingers — fox-tail and broom-sedge ; he will see the moss growing on the mouldering walls of once thrifty villages ; and will find ' one only master grasps the whole domain ' that once furnished happy homes for a dozen...
Page 356 - ... enough* and that was dead. Nothing could seem too rich to clothe the sun, Much less those joys which trample on his head. As flames do work and wind, when they ascend ; So did I weave myself into the sense. But while I bustled, I might hear a friend Whisper, " How wide is all this long pretence! " There is in love a sweetness ready penned : " Copy out only that, and save expense.