Recollections of a Chaperon, Volume 1J. & J. Harper, 1833 - 411 pages |
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Page 64 - When death shakes off the slave's body, the chain falls with it, and the man, disenthralled at last, goes where the wicked cease from troubling, where the weary are at rest...
Page 38 - Must call thee so, the rich affection's store That fed our hopes lies now exhaust and spent, Like sums of treasure unto bankrupts lent. We that did nothing study but the way To love each other, with which thoughts the day Rose with delight to us, and with them set, Must learn the hateful art how to forget.
Page 75 - But yet the spirit of Job was in a better tune : Shall we (saith he) take good at God's hands, and not be content to take evil also?
Page 116 - And deemed the deep opake would blot her beams; But, melting like a wreath of snow, it hangs In folds of wavy silver round, and clothes The orb with richer beauties than her own, Then passing, leaves her in her light serene.
Page 38 - Dislodged from their haunts, we must in tears Unwind a love knit up in many years. In this last kiss I here surrender thee Back to thyself ; so thou again art free.
Page 11 - But if he lurk between the ruddy lips, Unhappy soul, that thence his nectar sips, While down into his heart the sugar'd poison slips ! Oft in a voice he creeps down through the ear; Oft from a blushing cheek he lights his fire ; Oft shrouds his golden flame in likest hair ; Oft in a soft smooth skin doth close retire ; Oft in a smile ; oft in a silent tear : And if all fail, yet Virtue's self he'll hire.
Page 68 - O, rather let me die Whilst I thus gentle find her ; 'Twere worse than death, if I Should find she proves unkinder ! One frown, though but in jest, Or one unkindness, feigned, Would rob me of more rest Than e'er could be regained.
Page 149 - Nae mair of that ! Dear Jenny, to be free, There's some men constanter in love than we ; Nor is the ferly great, when nature kind Has blest them...
Page 187 - In that sense, there is more joy in heaven over one repentant sinner than over ninety-nine just men — if the latter are just only because they are too feeble ever to have sinned.
Page 184 - For I have drank the cup of bitterness, And having drank therein of heavenly grace, I must not put away the cup of shame. * Thus as she spake she falter'd at the close, And in that dying fall her voice sent forth Somewhat of its original sweetness. Thou ! . . Thou self-abased ! exclaim'd the astonish'd King;.. Thou self-condemn'd ! . . The cup of shame...