Miss Standish; and By the bay of Naples, Volum 1 |
Frases i termes més freqüents
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 61 - But we are often made to feel that our affections are but tents of a night. Though slowly and with pain, the objects of the affections change, as the objects of thought do. There are moments when the affections rule and absorb the man, and make his happiness dependent on a person or persons.
Pàgina 23 - Save thy toiling, spare thy treasure; All I ask is friendship's pleasure; Let the shining ore lie darkling,— Bring no gem in lustre sparkling; Gifts and gold are naught to me, I would only look on thee!
Pàgina 89 - Unless you can think, when the song is done, No other is soft in the rhythm; Unless you can feel, when left by One, That all men else go with him; Unless you can know, when unpraised by his breath, That your beauty itself wants proving; Unless you can swear 'For life, for death !' — Oh, fear to call it loving!
Pàgina 87 - There are who sigh that no fond heart is theirs, None loves them best — O vain and selfish sigh ! Out of the bosom of His love He spares — The Father spares the Son, for thee to die : For thee He died — for thee He lives again : O'er thee He watches in His boundless reign.
Pàgina 58 - I do not think it is a good thing to do and I would not like to do it.
Pàgina 119 - Her slow, lethargic ways irritated him past bearing, and he confessed to his intimates that if he had married her he would have been the most miserable man alive.
Pàgina 56 - Tell me the old sweet story, Sweet story of old. She was a village maiden ; He was a warrior bold.
Pàgina 79 - I do not know whether that is a compliment to me or to the one poem you have read, or what,' said Emo, smiling, all her fatigue at once gone.