The Ladies' Wreath, Volume 7Martyn & Ely, 1852 - American literature |
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... Nature - By Estelle Livingston , The Recall - By Lina Morriss , The Light of Home , or , a Sister's Love - By Helen Irving , The Past - By Celia , The Bird's Nest - By Asahel Abbott , Trust not , Love not - By Annie R. Smith , The New ...
... Nature - By Estelle Livingston , The Recall - By Lina Morriss , The Light of Home , or , a Sister's Love - By Helen Irving , The Past - By Celia , The Bird's Nest - By Asahel Abbott , Trust not , Love not - By Annie R. Smith , The New ...
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... nor ean he do every thing . But that a man who is an excellent father and an affectionate husband can be at heart a Nero , I do not believe . The very nature of the government of Russia - and 20 GRAND DUCHESS OLGA OF RUSSIA .
... nor ean he do every thing . But that a man who is an excellent father and an affectionate husband can be at heart a Nero , I do not believe . The very nature of the government of Russia - and 20 GRAND DUCHESS OLGA OF RUSSIA .
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The very nature of the government of Russia - and the people of that country are not yet fit for any other - renders it inevitable that there will be many abuses - abuses which if all the function- aries of the government had the ...
The very nature of the government of Russia - and the people of that country are not yet fit for any other - renders it inevitable that there will be many abuses - abuses which if all the function- aries of the government had the ...
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... NATURE . BY ESTELLE LIVINGSTON . THE beautiful in Nature- The quiet woodland scene , The primrose by the rivulet , The meadow and the green , The laden fields of autumn , The chequered autumn wood , The rock where freedom tarries To ...
... NATURE . BY ESTELLE LIVINGSTON . THE beautiful in Nature- The quiet woodland scene , The primrose by the rivulet , The meadow and the green , The laden fields of autumn , The chequered autumn wood , The rock where freedom tarries To ...
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... nature , and it is about these gifted and noble spirits , that society and pleasure weave the strongest chains . He had been a star among a brilliant set at college , and now to the constant claims of his friends here , he had not the ...
... nature , and it is about these gifted and noble spirits , that society and pleasure weave the strongest chains . He had been a star among a brilliant set at college , and now to the constant claims of his friends here , he had not the ...
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Page 404 - Dis's waggon! daffodils That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath...
Page 211 - FOR the strength of the hills we bless thee, Our God, our fathers' God ! Thou hast made thy children mighty, By the touch of the mountain sod.
Page 334 - A LITTLE word in kindness spoken, A motion, or a tear, Has often healed the heart that's broken, And made a friend sincere. A word — a look — has crushed to earth Full many a budding flower, Which, had a smile but owned its birth, Would bless life's darkest hour. Then deem it not an idle thing A pleasant word to speak ; The face you wear, the thought you bring, A heart may heal or break.
Page 405 - But none ever trembled and panted with bliss In the garden, the field, or the wilderness, Like a doe in the noontide with love's sweet want As the companionless sensitive plant.
Page 250 - Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light: But, oh ! she dances such a way— No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight.
Page 335 - Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way, But to act that each tomorrow Find us farther than today.
Page 405 - Then the pied wind-flowers and the tulip tall, And narcissi, the fairest among them all, Who gaze on their eyes in the stream's recess, Till they die of their own dear loveliness...
Page 383 - The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileged beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of Heaven.
Page 405 - And the Naiad-like lily of the vale, Whom youth makes so fair and passion so pale, That the light of its tremulous bells is seen Through their pavilions of tender green ; And the hyacinth purple, and white, and blue, Which flung from its bells a sweet peal anew Of music so delicate, soft, and intense, It was felt like an odour within the sense...
Page 265 - How hardly shall they who have riches enter the kingdom of heaven.