New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 146E. W. Allen, 1870 |
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Page 256
... Oak Brook , suggestive in itself of rippling water and verdant foliage . " And papa smiled . " Thank you , papa , and I should like to go , " I said at once . I was so very , very anxious to get away from the place that mocked me with ...
... Oak Brook , suggestive in itself of rippling water and verdant foliage . " And papa smiled . " Thank you , papa , and I should like to go , " I said at once . I was so very , very anxious to get away from the place that mocked me with ...
Page 266
... Oak Brook , and papa took us to the train . He was evidently very anxious about me , and solicitous for my comfort ; and if I had not been weighed down by a sense of utter desolation , I should have prized the hour or two of ...
... Oak Brook , and papa took us to the train . He was evidently very anxious about me , and solicitous for my comfort ; and if I had not been weighed down by a sense of utter desolation , I should have prized the hour or two of ...
Page 268
... Oak Brook , and we descended at a very small and inconvenient one , little better than a shed , the nearest station to Oak Brook , at which we found two young women waiting for us , members of the community into which I was about to be ...
... Oak Brook , and we descended at a very small and inconvenient one , little better than a shed , the nearest station to Oak Brook , at which we found two young women waiting for us , members of the community into which I was about to be ...
Page 269
... oaks before us . And so on until we came to the spot from which the village took its name a brook overshadowed by a bending oak tree , the branches of which had become warped by leaning towards the water , that flowed on with a ...
... oaks before us . And so on until we came to the spot from which the village took its name a brook overshadowed by a bending oak tree , the branches of which had become warped by leaning towards the water , that flowed on with a ...
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... I have seen little of their peculiarities and few of their ceremonies , because I have been ill for so many weeks . The day after my arrival at Oak Brook all the 372 Stronger than Death . THE STORY CONTINUED BY PRISCILLA LAWFORD.
... I have seen little of their peculiarities and few of their ceremonies , because I have been ill for so many weeks . The day after my arrival at Oak Brook all the 372 Stronger than Death . THE STORY CONTINUED BY PRISCILLA LAWFORD.
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Page 684 - THE blessed damozel leaned out From the gold bar of Heaven ; Her eyes were deeper than the depth Of waters stilled at even ; She had three lilies in her hand, And the stars in her hair were seven.
Page 706 - Leave thou thy sister when she prays, Her early Heaven, her happy views; Nor thou with shadow'd hint confuse A life that leads melodious days. Her faith thro...
Page 703 - STRONG Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove; Thine are these orbs of light and shade; Thou madest Life in man and brute ; Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot Is on the skull which thou hast made. Thou wilt not leave us in the dust: Thou madest man, he knows not why, He thinks he was not made to die; And thou hast...
Page 696 - THIS is her picture as she was : It seems a thing to wonder on, As though mine image in the glass Should tarry when myself am gone. I gaze until she seems to stir, — Until mine eyes almost aver That now, even now, the sweet lips part To breathe the words of the sweet heart :— And yet the earth is over her.
Page 37 - Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry, Hold, hold!
Page 703 - That God, which ever lives and loves, One God, one law, one element, And one far off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.
Page 685 - Are not two prayers a perfect strength ? And shall I feel afraid ? 'When round his head the aureole clings, And he is clothed in white, I'll take his hand and go with him To the deep wells of light ; As unto a stream we will step down, And bathe there in God's sight.
Page 68 - Man that is born of a woman," was chanted, not read; and the anthem, besides being immeasurably tedious, would have served as well for a nuptial. The real serious part was the figure of the Duke of Cumberland, heightened by a thousand melancholy circumstances.
Page 193 - I felt such undescribable emotions within me, as I am sure could not be accounted for from any combinations of matter and motion. I am positive I have a soul; nor can all the books with which materialists have pestered the world ever convince me to the contrary.
Page 491 - I thought it couldn't be your voice," she said. But she might as well be hung for a sheep as for a lamb.