Vernon Grove: Or, Hearts as They Are. A NovelRudd & Carleton, 1859 - 389 pages |
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... closed his door and his head is bent , while with pen in hand he draws mystic numbers , which to you or me are simply numbers , but to him a calculation involving the gain of many dollars , and he is alone . There is no need to ...
... closed his door and his head is bent , while with pen in hand he draws mystic numbers , which to you or me are simply numbers , but to him a calculation involving the gain of many dollars , and he is alone . There is no need to ...
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... closed windows almost betokened that it was uninhabited ; but Isabel Clayton seemed at home there , as opening the door and shutting it again noiselessly , and then ascending the stairs , she knocked gently at the door of a chamber . It ...
... closed windows almost betokened that it was uninhabited ; but Isabel Clayton seemed at home there , as opening the door and shutting it again noiselessly , and then ascending the stairs , she knocked gently at the door of a chamber . It ...
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... closed blinds . " You are better at last , Richard , " she said , taking one of his hands which was white and thin from long confinement , " the doctor has just told me so ; need I tell you how rejoiced I am to hear it ? " " Thank you ...
... closed blinds . " You are better at last , Richard , " she said , taking one of his hands which was white and thin from long confinement , " the doctor has just told me so ; need I tell you how rejoiced I am to hear it ? " " Thank you ...
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... closed your eyes to the beauties of life , has closed them likewise , you must remember , to all that is repulsive . If I had only time to think , I might enumerate many comforts which are still left you ; but I have an engage- ment ...
... closed your eyes to the beauties of life , has closed them likewise , you must remember , to all that is repulsive . If I had only time to think , I might enumerate many comforts which are still left you ; but I have an engage- ment ...
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... closed tightly over her eyes . Poor , little , lonely child , she was glad to find forget- fulness in sleep , for the feeling of home - sickness , when it comes to youth is a positive pain , dragging down the young spirit to unutterable ...
... closed tightly over her eyes . Poor , little , lonely child , she was glad to find forget- fulness in sleep , for the feeling of home - sickness , when it comes to youth is a positive pain , dragging down the young spirit to unutterable ...
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Vernon Grove: Or, Hearts as They Are. a Novel Caroline Howard Gilman Glover Jervey No preview available - 2019 |
Vernon Grove, Or, Hearts As They Are: A Novel Caroline Howard Gilman Glover Jervey No preview available - 2012 |
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Page 172 - Alas ! the love of women ! it is known To be a lovely and a fearful thing ; For all of theirs upon that die is thrown, And if 'tis lost, life hath no more to bring To them but mockeries of the past alone...
Page 81 - Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours. Where are they? With the years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands despatch: How much is to be done! My hopes and fears Start up alarmed, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — on what ? A fathomless abyss ! A dread eternity!
Page 302 - Nor dare she trust a larger lay, But rather loosens from the lip Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away.
Page 68 - Thus solemnized and softened, death is mild And terrorless as this serenest night : Here could I hope, like some inquiring child Sporting on graves, that death did hide from human sight Sweet secrets, or beside its breathless sleep That loveliest dreams perpetual watch did keep.
Page 55 - BETTER trust all and be deceived, And weep that trust and that deceiving, Than doubt one heart that, if believed, Had blessed one's life with true believing. Oh, in this mocking world, too fast The doubting fiend o'ertakes our youth; Better be cheated to the last Than lose the blessed hope of truth.
Page 286 - WHEN some beloved voice that was to you Both sound and sweetness, faileth suddenly, And silence against which you dare not cry, Aches round you like a strong disease and new — What hope ? what help ? what music will undo That silence to your sense?
Page 191 - And her face is lily-clear, Lily-shaped, and dropped in duty To the law of its own beauty. Oval cheeks encolored faintly, Which a trail of golden hair Keeps from fading off to air: And a forehead fair and saintly, Which two blue eyes undershine, Like meek prayers before a shrine.
Page 172 - And underneath that face, like summer ocean's, Its lip as moveless, and its cheek as clear, Slumbers a whirlwind of the heart's emotions, Love, hatred, pride, hope, sorrow — all save fear.
Page 300 - His love is hidden, like the springs Which lie in Earth's deep heart below, And murmur there a thousand things, Which naught above may hear or know. Tis hid, not buried ! Without sound, Or light or limit, night and day, It like the dark springs under ground, Runs, ebbs not, and can ne'er decay...
Page 145 - ... now, and far away the falling Of phantom feet. The glittering dome, the arch, the towering column. Are sights that greet us now on every hand, And all so wild — so strange — so sweetly solemn — So like one's fancies formed of fairy land ! And these then are your works, mysterious powers ! Your spells are o'er, around us, and beneath, These opening aisles, these crystal fruits and flowers, And glittering grots and high-arched beauteous bowers, As still as death...