A Record of Ellen WatsonAnna Jane Buckland Macmillan and Company, 1884 - 279 pages |
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... perhaps , too much to hope that her struggles and her victory may possibly cast a gleam of light into the clouds or darkness through which so many are fighting their way , as she did , towards the sunrise of a brighter and diviner day ...
... perhaps , too much to hope that her struggles and her victory may possibly cast a gleam of light into the clouds or darkness through which so many are fighting their way , as she did , towards the sunrise of a brighter and diviner day ...
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... perhaps , was any nature more gifted with a peculiarly tender and delicate sympathy , which manifested itself in the interest she took in all the varied concerns of her different friends . While she was disposed to be indifferent , or ...
... perhaps , was any nature more gifted with a peculiarly tender and delicate sympathy , which manifested itself in the interest she took in all the varied concerns of her different friends . While she was disposed to be indifferent , or ...
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... perhaps , as large a measure of her con- fidence as any of those to whom she gave her friendship . The intercourse between them was frequent and unbroken from this early period of Ellen's life to that day when she wrote her last letter ...
... perhaps , as large a measure of her con- fidence as any of those to whom she gave her friendship . The intercourse between them was frequent and unbroken from this early period of Ellen's life to that day when she wrote her last letter ...
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... perhaps have been satisfied by remaining in it . The cause of such changes in the aim of life must be sought elsewhere , and you find it in the " sense of Duty . " This argument appears to me a very strong one , and would be convincing ...
... perhaps have been satisfied by remaining in it . The cause of such changes in the aim of life must be sought elsewhere , and you find it in the " sense of Duty . " This argument appears to me a very strong one , and would be convincing ...
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... Perhaps it may one day be realised . But I should like best to meet her on common ground of feeling and opinion . It is impossible that I should be insensible to the deep religious feeling in both your letters . But , great as is your ...
... Perhaps it may one day be realised . But I should like best to meet her on common ground of feeling and opinion . It is impossible that I should be insensible to the deep religious feeling in both your letters . But , great as is your ...
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Page 245 - Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon, Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon For simple sheep ; and such are daffodils With the green world they live in...
Page 271 - GLORY be to God on high, and in earth peace, good will towards men. We praise thee, we bless thee, we worship thee, we glorify thee, we give thanks to thee for thy great glory, O Lord God, heavenly King, God the Father Almighty.
Page 196 - But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
Page 245 - A THING of beauty is a joy for ever : Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness...
Page 73 - Our voices took a higher range; Once more we sang: 'They do not die Nor lose their mortal sympathy, Nor change to us, although they change ; 'Rapt from the fickle and the frail With gather'd power, yet the same, Pierces the keen seraphic flame From orb to orb, from veil to veil.
Page 263 - And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say : for the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say.
Page 248 - My spirit is too weak— mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagined pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick eagle looking at the sky. Yet 'tis a gentle luxury to weep That I have not the cloudy winds to keep, Fresh for the opening of the morning's eye. Such dim-conceived glories of the brain, Bring round the heart an...
Page 245 - Therefore on every morrow are we wreathing A flowery band to bind us to the earth, Spite of despondence, of the inhuman dearth Of noble natures, of the gloomy days, Of all the unhealthy and o'erdarkened ways Made for our searching. Yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits.
Page 18 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...