Waiting on Destiny: A Story for GirlsUniversalist Publishing House, 1889 - 314 páginas |
Palavras e frases frequentes
afraid Allport Arnold Ashley asked Aurora Leigh beautiful better Bleak House boys corduroy road course cried dance dare dear delight delirium tremens dreadful dream dress enjoy excitement eyes father fear feel friends garet glad gone hand happy hard heard heart interest Julius Cæsar Kenilworth kissed lady laughed live looked Madame Roland Maple Ridge Margy Marian Mary Carter Mason Merchant of Venice mind Miss Moody morning Mortimer Mortimer's never night once passed person pleasant poem prairie pretty quadroon Ralph rest ride rience scarcely seemed Shylock sing smile soon soul sure sweet talk tell thing thought tion tired to-day to-night told took total depravity usual village walked week whole Wisconsin woman women wonder word youth
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Página 63 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Página 177 - From the Desert I come to thee On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire. Under thy window I stand, And the midnight hears my cry: I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die Till the sun grows cold, And the stars are old, And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold!
Página 56 - Here sighs, with lamentations and loud moans, Resounded through the air pierced by no star, That e'en I wept at entering. Various tongues, Horrible languages, outcries of woe, Accents of anger, voices deep and hoarse, With hands together smote that swell'd the sounds, Made up a tumult, that for ever whirls Round through that air with solid darkness stain'd, Like to the sand that in the whirlwind flies.
Página 231 - Man meets man — meets, and quits again. I knew it when my life was young ; I feel it still, now youth is o'er. — The mists are on the mountain hung, And Marguerite I shall see no more.
Página 175 - Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood ; That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be...
Página 309 - I am named and known by that moment's feat ; There took my station and degree ; So grew my own small life complete, As nature obtained her best of me — One born to love you, sweet...
Página 167 - If you choose to play ! — is my principle. Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will!
Página 193 - Then comes the statelier Eden back to men : Then reign the world's great bridals, chaste and calm : Then springs the crowning race of humankind. May these things be!' Sighing she spoke 'I fear They will not'.
Página 67 - Yes, to smell pork ; to eat of the habitation which your prophet the Nazarite conjured the devil into. I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following ; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you.
Página 56 - Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of Power divine, Supremest Wisdom, and primeval Love. 19 Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.