The Romance of the Forest: Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry, Volume 2

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E. Duyckinck, 1825 - English fiction
 

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Page 213 - Mighty victor, mighty lord, Low on his funeral couch he lies ! No pitying heart, no eye, afford A tear to grace his obsequies.
Page 255 - Brother ;" and it was given, while a murmur of satisfaction arose from all present, and all hearts felt kindlier and more humanely towards each other.
Page 255 - I must not say that you did your duty to your old father ; for did he not often beseech you, apart from one another, to be reconciled, for your own sakes as Christians, for his sake, and for the sake of the mother who bare you, and, Stephen, who died that you might be...
Page 255 - As the brothers stood fervently but composedly grasping each other's hand, in the little hollow that lay between the grave of their mother, long since dead, and of their father, whose shroud...
Page 254 - For a while the elder Brother said nothing, for he had a consciousness in his heart that he ought to have consulted his father's son in designing this last becoming mark of affection and respect to his memory ; so the stone was planted in silence, and now stood erect, decently and simply among the other unostentatious memorials of the humble dead. The inscription merely gave the name and age of the deceased, and told that the stone had been erected
Page 252 - ... tenants ; but still with a sobriety of manner and voice, that was insensibly produced by the influence of the simple ceremony now closed, by the quiet graves around, and the shadow of the spire and gray walls of the house of God. Two men yet stood together at the head of the grave, with countenances of sincere but unimpassioned grief.
Page 256 - Some turned their heads away to hide the tears that needed not to be hidden — and when the brothers had released each other from a long and sobbing embrace, many went up to them, and, in a single word or two, expressed their joy at this perfect reconcilement. The brothers themselves walked away from the churchyard, arm in arm, with tjie minister to the manse.
Page 251 - ... pieces of turf were aptly joined together, and trimly laid by the beating spade, so that the newest mound in the church-yard was scarcely distinguishable from those that were grown over by the undisturbed grass and daisies of a luxuriant spring. The burial was soon over ; and the party, with one consenting motion, having uncovered their heads, in decent reverence of the place and occasion, were beginning to separate, and about to leave the church-yard. Here, some...
Page 253 - ... words that mean little when uttered, but which rankle and fester in remembrance — imagined opposition of interests, that, duly considered, would have been found one and the same — these, and many other causes, slight when single, but strong when rising up together in one baneful...
Page 252 - ... who were now standing at the head of their father's grave, had for some years been totally estranged from each other, and the only words that had passed between them, during all that time, had been uttered within a few days past, during the necessary preparations for the old man's funeral. No deep and deadly quarrel was between these Brothers, and neither of them could distinctly tell the cause of this unnatural estrangement.

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