Johnny Ludlow: Fourth Series

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Macmillan, 1901 - English fiction - 470 pages
 

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Page 303 - BRIEF life is here our portion, Brief sorrow, short-lived care; The life that knows no ending, The tearless life is there.
Page 190 - Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right; for that shall bring a man peace at the last.
Page 83 - The angel's song ? Oh ! lift thy drooping head, Thou, who in gloom and dread Hast lain so long. " Death comes to set thee free, Oh ! meet him cheerily, As thy true friend, And all thy fears shall cease, And in eternal peace Thy penance end.
Page 122 - ... hustling Paul and Lenore with their stout Breton elbows, threatening them with their heavy sabots, which at any moment may come pounding down on their feet. " You had better take my arm," says Paul, with a protecting air, as they move slowly along. " I might easily mislay you in this crush, and, if I did, it would be like looking for a needle in a bottle of hay to try and find you again.
Page 83 - When death is coming near, When thy heart shrinks in fear, And thy limbs fail, Then raise thy hands and pray To Him who smooths thy way Through the dark vale. Seest thou the eastern dawn, Hear'st thou in the red morn The angel's song?
Page 70 - I have not a very great deal to say. I am going on pretty much in the old way, sometimes unhappy enough, God knows ! and at other times tolerably comfortable. " I believe that I live rather too hard, and I have formed a very determined resolution to change my ways ; but it 'is one thing to make a resolution, and another to keep it.

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