Trials: A Tale, Volume 1G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1824 - 957 pages |
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Page 40
... hope and confidence . With these sentiments , -and I make no boast of pos- sessing them , since I consider them as essential to the character of every one who desires to be thought a man of honour , as bravery , or integrity , or any ...
... hope and confidence . With these sentiments , -and I make no boast of pos- sessing them , since I consider them as essential to the character of every one who desires to be thought a man of honour , as bravery , or integrity , or any ...
Page 57
... hope for mercy at the hand of heaven , tell me the truth . " She hesitated— she scarcely knew in what language to shape the inquiry which her better judgment suggested to her it was so improper , so unworthy of her to make . But , driv ...
... hope for mercy at the hand of heaven , tell me the truth . " She hesitated— she scarcely knew in what language to shape the inquiry which her better judgment suggested to her it was so improper , so unworthy of her to make . But , driv ...
Page 88
... a mind more happily composed would laugh , should still devour your heart , hear my appeal , the last that I may make , the last that you may hear . As I do hope for mercy from my Maker , I never loved Augusta ! never 88.
... a mind more happily composed would laugh , should still devour your heart , hear my appeal , the last that I may make , the last that you may hear . As I do hope for mercy from my Maker , I never loved Augusta ! never 88.
Page 89
... hope that we may meet again ! but if this be not permitted me , receive again my perfect pardon for every moment of sorrow inadvertently occasioned me . I know that it was inadvertently ; I know that you were often driven upon ...
... hope that we may meet again ! but if this be not permitted me , receive again my perfect pardon for every moment of sorrow inadvertently occasioned me . I know that it was inadvertently ; I know that you were often driven upon ...
Page 95
... - the privilege - the hope - the comfort of prayer . Had it been poured forth by the most sublime , the most accomplished eloquence , it would feebly have effect- ed her in comparison with the soft infantine accents in 95.
... - the privilege - the hope - the comfort of prayer . Had it been poured forth by the most sublime , the most accomplished eloquence , it would feebly have effect- ed her in comparison with the soft infantine accents in 95.
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Page 31 - But hail, thou goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight...
Page 50 - And from Shakespeare she gained a great store of information amongst the rest, that -'Trifles light as air, Are, to the jealous, confirmation strong, As proofs of Holy Writ.
Page 39 - But I'll do my best a gude wife to be, For auld Robin Gray is kind unto me.
Page 107 - Not in the strong wind that brake the rocks in pieces, not in the earthquake, not in the fire, but in the still small voice that followed, the Lord made himself known.
Page 93 - O that I had wings like a dove : for then would I flee away, and be at rest.
Page 48 - It was by this sort of discipline that the heart and affections of a being, whose every nerve "turned at the touch of joy or woe, and turning trembled too...
Page 97 - Habitual evils change not on a sudden: But many days must pass, and many sorrows; Conscious remorse and anguish must be felt, To curb desire, to break the stubborn will, And work a second nature in the soul, Ere Virtue can resume the place she lost: 'Tis else dissimulation — He had often read these lines, he said; but never tasted them before.