The Home: Or, Family Cares and Family Joys, Volume 2Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843 - Swedish fiction |
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... excellence , am I im- proved , and feel myself happier every day . Love , Sara , love changes sacrifice into pleasure , and makes renunciation sweet ! I thank God for my lot , and only wish that I were worthier of it ! " " It may be ...
... excellence , am I im- proved , and feel myself happier every day . Love , Sara , love changes sacrifice into pleasure , and makes renunciation sweet ! I thank God for my lot , and only wish that I were worthier of it ! " " It may be ...
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... excellence which you cannot understand , and which , in your present state of mind , you never can emulate . Your own calm judgment will make the sharpest reproaches on this last scene , and will , nay must , lead you to throw yourself ...
... excellence which you cannot understand , and which , in your present state of mind , you never can emulate . Your own calm judgment will make the sharpest reproaches on this last scene , and will , nay must , lead you to throw yourself ...
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... excellence that which is only mediocre , and his little attempts for masterpieces . Henrik may be , if he can , a distinguished poet and literary man ; but he must not as yet imagine himself anything : above all things , he must not ...
... excellence that which is only mediocre , and his little attempts for masterpieces . Henrik may be , if he can , a distinguished poet and literary man ; but he must not as yet imagine himself anything : above all things , he must not ...
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... Excellence O. Through his influence two important landed - proprietors in the parish of Great T. have been induced to give their votes to Jacobi , who , though yet young , has been proposed ; and thus he will receive one of the largest ...
... Excellence O. Through his influence two important landed - proprietors in the parish of Great T. have been induced to give their votes to Jacobi , who , though yet young , has been proposed ; and thus he will receive one of the largest ...
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... Excellence O— , who is detained in P. from an attack of gout , which seized him on his journey from Copenhagen to Stockholm . But by the 6th of May I hope certainly to be with you . I have new plans , and I long to lay down all my ...
... Excellence O— , who is detained in P. from an attack of gout , which seized him on his journey from Copenhagen to Stockholm . But by the 6th of May I hope certainly to be with you . I have new plans , and I long to lay down all my ...
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Page 141 - For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: And the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: For, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
Page 138 - ... the vessel of our life : — carry it from the islands of joy it is true, but carry it also away from the rocky shores of grief. Hours came for me in which no consolation would appease my heart, in. which I in vain combated with myself, and said — ' Now I will read, and then pray, and then sleep ! ' But yet anguish would not leave me, but followed me still, when I read; prevented me from prayer, and chased away sleep; yes, many such hours have been...
Page 140 - And I, Cecilia, should I shut my heart against so many occasions for joy and gratitude, and sit with my sorrow in darkness "Î О no! I will gladden the human circle in which I live ; I will open my heart to the gospel of life and of nature ; I will seize hold on the moments, and the good which they bring. No friendly glance, no spring-breeze, shall pass over me unenjoyed or unacknowledged ; out of every flower will I suck a drop of honey, and out of every passing hour a drop of eternal life." And...
Page 50 - Why he, whose whole life was a crucifixion, should not love to look on that divine image of blameless suffering, I cannot see; on the contrary, it seems to me the most natural thing in the world that he should. But there are those who want to make private property of everything, and can't make up their minds that people who don't think as they do should claim any interest in that infinite compassion expressed in the central figure of the Christendom which includes us all.