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... Speak in the low tone , Sorrow holds so dear , Nor hide from it the sympathetic tear ; - Spare not the pressure of the gentle hand : - Wert thou the suff'rer , thou would'st understand That these small acts , whose cost thou canst not ...
... Speak in the low tone , Sorrow holds so dear , Nor hide from it the sympathetic tear ; - Spare not the pressure of the gentle hand : - Wert thou the suff'rer , thou would'st understand That these small acts , whose cost thou canst not ...
Page 94
... speak to your heart - it is to save mine from breaking that I now implore your mercy . But I am a mother ! —O my God ! thou only knowest what a tender , anxious , prayerful mother ! " My strong sense of religion - my sorrow and ...
... speak to your heart - it is to save mine from breaking that I now implore your mercy . But I am a mother ! —O my God ! thou only knowest what a tender , anxious , prayerful mother ! " My strong sense of religion - my sorrow and ...
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... speak That boon I've granted ; But only that thou mightst forswear all thoughts Of death . Shall . Alas ! that word was but a drop To the vast ocean labouring in my bosom ! Shelo . Well , well ! I'll hear - say on , but let thy speech ...
... speak That boon I've granted ; But only that thou mightst forswear all thoughts Of death . Shall . Alas ! that word was but a drop To the vast ocean labouring in my bosom ! Shelo . Well , well ! I'll hear - say on , but let thy speech ...
Page 136
... speak and act im- plicitly as she shall dictate ; the natural consequence of the revelation to the King , by her , of Siphah's infidelity seeming to the unsuspicious Shelomith the probable breaking off of her marriage with him , and her ...
... speak and act im- plicitly as she shall dictate ; the natural consequence of the revelation to the King , by her , of Siphah's infidelity seeming to the unsuspicious Shelomith the probable breaking off of her marriage with him , and her ...
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... Speak up , sir ! " roared Jacob to the witness : - " Speak up , sir , that his lordship and the gentlemen of the jury may hear you ! " Now it happened at the time that the witness had been speaking loud enough for any one to hear him ...
... Speak up , sir ! " roared Jacob to the witness : - " Speak up , sir , that his lordship and the gentlemen of the jury may hear you ! " Now it happened at the time that the witness had been speaking loud enough for any one to hear him ...
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Page 474 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Page 486 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Page 117 - Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend — This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall: Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all.
Page 198 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Page 485 - No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this ; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.
Page 202 - Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 487 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. — " Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.
Page 203 - What though the field be lost ? All is not lost : the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield : And what is else not to be overcome ? That glory never shall his wrath or might 110 Extort from me.
Page 202 - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Page 168 - It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.