The Parent's PresentSamuel Griswold Goodrich Light & Horton, 1835 - 232 páginas |
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... voices answer , No ! ' Ye clasp your babes and kiss ; Your bosoms yearn , your eyes o'erflow ; Yet , ah ! remember this ; - The infant , reared alone for earth , May live , may die , - to curse his birth ; Is this a Mother's love ? A ...
... voices answer , No ! ' Ye clasp your babes and kiss ; Your bosoms yearn , your eyes o'erflow ; Yet , ah ! remember this ; - The infant , reared alone for earth , May live , may die , - to curse his birth ; Is this a Mother's love ? A ...
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... voices and the laughter of the children at play on the green before the parish - school , or their composed murmur when at their various lessons together in the room , may be distinctly heard all over the burial - ground , - —so may the ...
... voices and the laughter of the children at play on the green before the parish - school , or their composed murmur when at their various lessons together in the room , may be distinctly heard all over the burial - ground , - —so may the ...
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... voice told me that she was from Eng- land . She was the relict of an officer slain in war , and having heard a dear friend of her husband's , who had lived in my house , speak of his happy and innocent time here , she earn- estly ...
... voice told me that she was from Eng- land . She was the relict of an officer slain in war , and having heard a dear friend of her husband's , who had lived in my house , speak of his happy and innocent time here , she earn- estly ...
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... voices were as one -so that the Twins were inseparable in my love , whether I beheld them , or my dim eyes were closed . From the first hour they were left alone with me , and without their mother , in the Manse , did I begin to love ...
... voices were as one -so that the Twins were inseparable in my love , whether I beheld them , or my dim eyes were closed . From the first hour they were left alone with me , and without their mother , in the Manse , did I begin to love ...
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... voices too , when I listened to them and knew their character , had a faint fluctuating difference of inflection and tone — like the same instrument blown upon with a somewhat stronger or weaker breath . Their very laugh grew to be ...
... voices too , when I listened to them and knew their character , had a faint fluctuating difference of inflection and tone — like the same instrument blown upon with a somewhat stronger or weaker breath . Their very laugh grew to be ...
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Antipater beautiful Bible birds blessing bosom breath bright brother called captive child Christ Christian church Clelland cloud cockchafer comfort companions Covenanters creatures crown danger dear boy death delight duty dwell earth father feelings flowers glory grace grave hand happy hath heart heaven holy Holy Sepulchre honor hope hour innocent Jerusalem kind leave lictors light live look Lord man's Manse mercy mind morning mother Mother's Love nature nest never night o'er parents perhaps pleasure prayer prisoner Psalm religion Reuben Gray rooks round Sabbath SAUL OF TARSUS scene Scotland season SECOND COMING Sepulchre silence sing sisters sleep smile song soon soul spirit spring stranger sweet tears thee thine things Thomas Dalziel thou art thou hast thought throne thrush tion truth unto voice Walter Gray wisdom woodpecker words wwww wwwwwww young friend youth
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Página 81 - BREATHES there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Página 223 - O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Página 176 - He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and, though poor perhaps compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are the mountains, and the valleys his, And the resplendent rivers. His to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel, But who, with filial confidence inspired, Can lift to Heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say —
Página 123 - TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN. THOU blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue, That openest when the quiet light Succeeds the keen and frosty night. Thou comest not when violets lean O'er wandering brooks and springs unseen, Or columbines, in purple dressed, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest. Thou waitest late and com'st alone, When woods are bare and birds are flown, And frosts and shortening days portend The aged year is near his end.
Página 220 - Well done, good and faithful servants, enter ye into the joy of your Lord.
Página 175 - And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain; But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every -seed his own body.
Página 21 - twixt Now and Then ! This breathing House not built with hands, This body that does me grievous wrong, O'er aery Cliffs and glittering Sands, How lightly then it flashed along...
Página 224 - I will mock when your fear cometh; when your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me...
Página 219 - Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.
Página 55 - ... him by his master, though of considerable length, fully and faithfully. He runs over the quiverings of the canary, and the clear whistlings of the Virginia nightingale or red-bird, with such superior execution and effect, that the mortified songsters feel their own inferiority and become altogether silent, while he seems to triumph in their defeat, by redoubling his exertions.