The Linwoods: Or, "Sixty Years Since" in America, Volume 2Harper & Brothers, 1835 - American loyalists |
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Page 80 - Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices, to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive...
Page 243 - Let the great gods, That keep this dreadful pother o'er our heads, Find out their enemies now.
Page 118 - Look on me! there is an order Of mortals on the earth, who do become Old in their youth, and die ere middle age, Without the violence of warlike death; Some perishing of pleasure— some of study— Some worn with toil, some of mere weariness,— Some of disease— and some insanity— And some of withered, or of broken hearts; For this last is a malady which slays More than are numbered in the lists of Fate, Taking all shapes, and bearing many names.
Page 85 - Unargued I obey : so God ordains; God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise.
Page 50 - ... whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force or shuffle from them by chicane what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English colonies, probably, than in any other people of the earth...
Page 171 - ... Oh, never swear to them ; these are like beggars' oaths, nobody believes them." Lady Anne was already on the wing. " Bless us," thought Meredith, " a little dash of coquetry might make her quite charming ;" and springing after her, he gave her his arm. When they met his mother at the road-side, his face and air were so changed and so animated, that, in the flush of her hopes, she ventured to whisper to him — " Not Hermia, but Helena I love ; Who would not change a raven for a dove !" He smiled...
Page 260 - Our profession is the chastest of all. The shadow of a fault tarnishes our most brilliant actions. The least inadvertence may cause us to lose that public favor which is so hard to be gained. I reprimand you for having forgotten, that in proportion as you had rendered yourself formidable to our enemies, you should have shown moderation towards our citizens. Exhibit again those splendid qualities which have placed you in the rank of our most distinguished...
Page 80 - I have somewhere read," she said, that " 'Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth, Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.' I believe it !" again her head fell back on its sylvan pillow, and utterly incapable of farther motion or thought, she sank to deep repose. Night came on, the watchful stars shone down upon her, the planets performed their nightly course, the moon rose and set, and still the unconscious sufferer slept on.
Page 189 - She smoothed the paper envelope. "As often as I looked at it, the feeling with which I first read it shot through my heart — strange, for there does not seem much in it.
Page 31 - Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; Which long for death, but it cometh not ; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?