Tait's Edinburgh magazine, Volume 241857 |
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... hope that an acquaintance with its mysteries might advance his purposes . He sought one diplomatic appointment a few minutes too late . The delay was providential to him . He had a long life's work to do , but his request would have ...
... hope that an acquaintance with its mysteries might advance his purposes . He sought one diplomatic appointment a few minutes too late . The delay was providential to him . He had a long life's work to do , but his request would have ...
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... hope , to the fireside of the dreamer - into the thought- thronged present come imaginations , as yet unenjoyed fulfilments , till the lonely one , keeping vigil over falling embers , is in " the seventh hea- ven " of dreamy bliss ...
... hope , to the fireside of the dreamer - into the thought- thronged present come imaginations , as yet unenjoyed fulfilments , till the lonely one , keeping vigil over falling embers , is in " the seventh hea- ven " of dreamy bliss ...
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... Hope's magic crucible all the unpleasant realities of school and idle fancies of leisure into joy ! That power leaves us with boyhood for the most part ; we indeed toil , wander widely for materials to fill Hope's crucible withal , we ...
... Hope's magic crucible all the unpleasant realities of school and idle fancies of leisure into joy ! That power leaves us with boyhood for the most part ; we indeed toil , wander widely for materials to fill Hope's crucible withal , we ...
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... hope saw through night's sweet influences - but I cannot dwell on it a light gleaming ; onwards would he go with a them as I would . They will melt away before - it prayer on his lip and strong will looking out from may be one passing ...
... hope saw through night's sweet influences - but I cannot dwell on it a light gleaming ; onwards would he go with a them as I would . They will melt away before - it prayer on his lip and strong will looking out from may be one passing ...
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... hope and fear vex not , where faith , after long wanderings , leaves man on heaven's shore . I wept then that I had lost a dear friend ; but selfish was that sorrow - for he fell asleep in God ! Remember how , long ago , you and I read ...
... hope and fear vex not , where faith , after long wanderings , leaves man on heaven's shore . I wept then that I had lost a dear friend ; but selfish was that sorrow - for he fell asleep in God ! Remember how , long ago , you and I read ...
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Page 99 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee ; for whither thou goest I will go, and where thou lodgest, I will lodge ; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God ; where thou diest I will die, and there will I be buried ; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 141 - s thousands o' my mind. [The first recruiting sergeant on record I conceive to have been that individual who is mentioned in the Book of Job as going to and fro in the earth , and walking up and down in it.
Page 335 - Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
Page 17 - WHEN the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices of the Night Wake the better soul, that slumbered, To a holy, calm delight; Ere the evening lamps...
Page 99 - And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
Page 459 - Suppose, now, one of these engines to be going along a railroad at the rate of nine or ten miles an hour, and that a cow were to stray upon the line and get in the way of the engine ; would not that, think you, be a very awkward circumstance ? "
Page 273 - But why do I talk of Death ? That phantom of grisly bone ? I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep ; Oh, God!
Page 207 - The Karens are a meek, peaceful race, simple and credulous, with many of the softer virtues, and few flagrant vices. Though greatly addicted to drunkenness, extremely filthy and indolent in their habits, their morals, in other respects, are superior to many more civilized races.
Page 427 - I was in education, and made up my mind that he should not labour under the same defect, but that I would put him to a good school, and give him a liberal training. I was, however, a poor man; and how do you think I managed ? I betook myself to mending my neighbours...
Page 20 - It is the same ! — for, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still is free ; Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow ; Nought may endure but Mutability.