The H--- Family: Tralinnan; Axel and Anna; and Other Tales

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Harper & Brothers, 1844 - 136 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 53 - I with a new one : it is so well worth taking a journey for, that if the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain.
Pàgina 132 - Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme! O teach me what is good ; teach me Thyself ! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure ; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss...
Pàgina 127 - ... to be comforted by a being from a higher world — has not, at times, hoped in enthusiastic melancholy to see an angel come down, who with merciful healing hand would touch the wounded heart, and solve the dark riddle of life and suffering ? Oh, when nature smiles around us in her glorious garment of summer — when she, like an enchanting beloved one — affectionate, beaming, warm, embraces with pure joy man, her bridegroom — then, if the human heart remain cold and reserved, and solemn as...
Pàgina 73 - My mother was amongst the slaves of Queen Gunnild — she was the most faithful of her servants. Poor and heavy was her lot, yet did she wish to live. My father was a free-born person, who thought little of forsaking the woman who loved him, and the child she had borne to him.

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