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... thoughts heavenward , but many goodly houses had been built . The streets within the crescent formed by the two projecting eminences were narrow and wind- ing , laid out apparently as convenience dictated paths to the first settlers ...
... thoughts heavenward , but many goodly houses had been built . The streets within the crescent formed by the two projecting eminences were narrow and wind- ing , laid out apparently as convenience dictated paths to the first settlers ...
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... thought , " and my mother ! these are to be my home " ; and , overcome with surprise and joy , she melted into tears . Na- When she descended from the vessel to the wharf , she found the carriage already mentioned waiting for her . No ...
... thought , " and my mother ! these are to be my home " ; and , overcome with surprise and joy , she melted into tears . Na- When she descended from the vessel to the wharf , she found the carriage already mentioned waiting for her . No ...
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... thoughts were far away , busied with commercial spec- ulations . He was not , however , an unmitigated hypocrite . He had always been prosperous , and deceived himself into the conviction , that it was the special blessing of God that ...
... thoughts were far away , busied with commercial spec- ulations . He was not , however , an unmitigated hypocrite . He had always been prosperous , and deceived himself into the conviction , that it was the special blessing of God that ...
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... thought of her beauty . The regularity of her features was lost in something more precious ; - " A sweet , attractive kind of grace , A full assurance given by looks ; Continual comfort in her face , The lineaments of Gospel books ...
... thought of her beauty . The regularity of her features was lost in something more precious ; - " A sweet , attractive kind of grace , A full assurance given by looks ; Continual comfort in her face , The lineaments of Gospel books ...
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... thought upon the most interesting subjects , had formed in the little Naomi habits of reserve and of secret musings in her solitary hours , when her pillow would be wetted with the tears wrung from the lonely heart that longed to love ...
... thought upon the most interesting subjects , had formed in the little Naomi habits of reserve and of secret musings in her solitary hours , when her pillow would be wetted with the tears wrung from the lonely heart that longed to love ...
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Page 24 - What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? — They sought a faith's pure shrine. Ay, call it holy ground, — The soil where first they trod! They have left unstained what there they found — Freedom to worship God ! Felicia Hemans.
Page 117 - Alas ! for them — their day is o'er. Their fires are out from hill and shore; No more for them the wild deer bounds, The plough is on their hunting grounds; The pale man's axe rings through their woods, The pale man's sail skims o'er their floods, Their pleasant springs are dry ; Their children — look, by power oppressed, Beyond the mountains of the west, Their children go -— to die.
Page 38 - A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel 13 light. XV.— I WANDERED LONELY. 1804. I WANDERED lonely as a cloud...
Page 134 - But the doomed Indian leaves behind no trace, To save his own, or serve another race ; With his frail breath his power has passed away, His deeds, his thoughts are buried with his clay ; Nor lofty pile, nor glowing page Shall link him to a future age, Or give him with the past a rank : His heraldry is but a broken bow, His history but a tale of wrong and woe, His very name must be a blank.
Page 333 - Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Page 433 - Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
Page 154 - If this fair rose offend thy sight, It in thy bosom wear ; 'T will blush to find itself less white, And turn Lancastrian there.
Page 9 - Before these fields were shorn and tilled, Full to the brim our rivers flowed ; The melody of waters filled The fresh and boundless wood ; And torrents dashed and rivulets played, And fountains spouted in the shade.
Page 88 - The sceptre's might, the crosier's pride, Ye do not fear ; No conquest blade, in life-blood dyed, Drops terror here — Let there not lurk a subtler snare, For wisdom's footsteps to beware ; The shackle and the stake...