The Home: Or, Family Cares and Family Joys, Volume 2Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843 - Swedish fiction |
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Page 11
... countenance of her adopted father . " Ah , Sara , " said the mother , after a short silence , " have you well considered this ? Do you think that Schwartz is a man who can make a wife happy ? " “ He can make me happy , " returned Sara ...
... countenance of her adopted father . " Ah , Sara , " said the mother , after a short silence , " have you well considered this ? Do you think that Schwartz is a man who can make a wife happy ? " “ He can make me happy , " returned Sara ...
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... of remorse , to the virtue and to the true life which you have renounced . " Sara was silent , she was shaken by the words and by the countenance of her adopted father . " And how perfectly different it might be ! " 20 FAMILY CARES.
... of remorse , to the virtue and to the true life which you have renounced . " Sara was silent , she was shaken by the words and by the countenance of her adopted father . " And how perfectly different it might be ! " 20 FAMILY CARES.
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... countenance . Stjernhök now , as he had always done , did not appear unfriendly to Henrik , but still paid but little attention to him . He occupied himself very busily , partly with trying chemical experiments with Jacobi and the ...
... countenance . Stjernhök now , as he had always done , did not appear unfriendly to Henrik , but still paid but little attention to him . He occupied himself very busily , partly with trying chemical experiments with Jacobi and the ...
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... countenance . Petrea read the " Magic Ring . " She ought pro- perly to have read it aloud to the family circle in an evening , and then its dangerous magic would have been decreased ; but she read it beforehand , privately to herself ...
... countenance . Petrea read the " Magic Ring . " She ought pro- perly to have read it aloud to the family circle in an evening , and then its dangerous magic would have been decreased ; but she read it beforehand , privately to herself ...
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... countenance had a brighter and more kindly expression than common , everybody thought her pretty . Eva , who had directed and assisted her toilet , rejoiced over her from the bottom of her heart . " Don't you see , Leonore , " said she ...
... countenance had a brighter and more kindly expression than common , everybody thought her pretty . Eva , who had directed and assisted her toilet , rejoiced over her from the bottom of her heart . " Don't you see , Leonore , " said she ...
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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.