The Young Lady's Cabinet of Gems: A Choice Collection of Pieces in Poetry and Prose |
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... Something may be learned on this subject from the phenomena of sleep . When you stand by the couch of a friend , at the hour of midnight , it seems to you at first view as if his intellect was actually extinct 22 CABINET OF GEMS .
... Something may be learned on this subject from the phenomena of sleep . When you stand by the couch of a friend , at the hour of midnight , it seems to you at first view as if his intellect was actually extinct 22 CABINET OF GEMS .
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... stand more distinctly out , as year upon year adds to the size of the tree . Every incision of the knife remains and becomes increasingly legible as time elapses . What an emblem of the power which memory will give to those acts in ...
... stand more distinctly out , as year upon year adds to the size of the tree . Every incision of the knife remains and becomes increasingly legible as time elapses . What an emblem of the power which memory will give to those acts in ...
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... standing looking from the window , when I was suddenly startled by an exclamation uttered with so much intensity , that I hurried hastily round . At a little distance Mrs. Fairfax was standing with her husband . She wrung both his hands ...
... standing looking from the window , when I was suddenly startled by an exclamation uttered with so much intensity , that I hurried hastily round . At a little distance Mrs. Fairfax was standing with her husband . She wrung both his hands ...
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... in Domesday Book , and stand foremost on the roll of Battle Abbey . Alas ! for the degradation of names . Well may we ask " What's in a name ? " And yet , even in our day , a name 56 CABINET OF GEMS . WHAT'S IN A NAME?
... in Domesday Book , and stand foremost on the roll of Battle Abbey . Alas ! for the degradation of names . Well may we ask " What's in a name ? " And yet , even in our day , a name 56 CABINET OF GEMS . WHAT'S IN A NAME?
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... standing in a quiet corner , and , as the name of each newcomer was announced , specu- lating on its origin , and , in fancy , calling up the figure of the ancestor from whom it sprung . In these vaga- ries of the imagination we have ...
... standing in a quiet corner , and , as the name of each newcomer was announced , specu- lating on its origin , and , in fancy , calling up the figure of the ancestor from whom it sprung . In these vaga- ries of the imagination we have ...
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Page 232 - Among the farthest Hebrides. Will no one tell me what she sings ? Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago : Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day ? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again ? Whate'er the theme, the maiden sang As if her song could have no ending...
Page 208 - ... and reprove; Thou, who art victory and law When empty terrors overawe ; From vain temptations dost set free; And calm'st the weary strife of frail humanity!
Page 124 - The soldiers' revels in the midst of pillage, The wail of famine in beleaguered towns. The bursting shell, the gateway wrenched asunder, The rattling musketry, the clashing blade; And ever and anon, in tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade.
Page 97 - WHEN gathering clouds around I view, And days are dark, and friends are few, On Him I lean, who, not in vain, Experienced every human pain ; He sees my wants, allays my fears, And counts and treasures up my tears.
Page 114 - The time is come. See how he points his eager hand this way ! See how his eyes gloat on thy grief, like a kite's upon the prey ! With all his wit, he little deems, that, spurned, betrayed, bereft, Thy father hath in his despair one fearful refuge left. He little deems that in this hand I clutch what still can save Thy gentle youth from taunts and blows, the portion of the slave ; Yea, and from nameless evil, that passeth taunt and blow — Foul outrage which thou knowest not, which thou shalt never...
Page 62 - Life's newness, and earth's garniture spread out; And when the silver habit of the clouds Comes down upon the autumn sun, and with A sober gladness the old year takes up His bright inheritance of golden fruits, A pomp and pageant fill the splendid scene. There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellow richness on the clustered trees...
Page 312 - Twa bairns, and but ae heart ! 'Twas then we sat on ae laigh bink, To leir ilk ither lear ; And tones and looks and smiles were shed, Remembered evermair. 1 wonder Jeanie, aften yet, When sitting on that bink, Cheek touchin' cheek, loof locked in loof, What our wee heads could think. When baith bent doun ower ae braid page, Wi' ae buik on our knee, Thy lips were on thy lesson, but My lesson was in thee.
Page 124 - Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing sounds grow fainter and then cease ; And like a bell, with solemn, sweet vibrations, I hear once more the voice of Christ say, "Peace...
Page 243 - And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man: my father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.
Page 219 - The Reaper said, and smiled ; " Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where He was once a child. " They shall all bloom in fields of light, Transplanted by my care, And saints, upon their garments white, These sacred blossoms wear.