The Home: Or, Family Cares and Family Joys, Volume 2Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843 - Swedish fiction |
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... head on her hand . Petrea sate at her feet on a low stool ; she also was silent , but every now and then looked up to Sara with a tender troubled expression , whilst Sara sometimes AND FAMILY JOYS . 7 CHAPTER XII. ...
... head on her hand . Petrea sate at her feet on a low stool ; she also was silent , but every now and then looked up to Sara with a tender troubled expression , whilst Sara sometimes AND FAMILY JOYS . 7 CHAPTER XII. ...
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... head with indescribable emotions against her adopted father , who clasped her tenderly to his bosom . It is not difficult to say whether they were good or bad angels who triumphed in Sara , as she , after a moment of violent inward ...
... head with indescribable emotions against her adopted father , who clasped her tenderly to his bosom . It is not difficult to say whether they were good or bad angels who triumphed in Sara , as she , after a moment of violent inward ...
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... head and shoulders , was hastening onward , and who , spite of the twilight , he recognised to be Sara . He hastened after her ; she looked round , saw him , and fled . Certain now that he was not mistaken , he followed , and was almost ...
... head and shoulders , was hastening onward , and who , spite of the twilight , he recognised to be Sara . He hastened after her ; she looked round , saw him , and fled . Certain now that he was not mistaken , he followed , and was almost ...
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... head and sighed . After the many disturbing circumstances which had lately occurred in the family , all seemed now to long after repose , and the ability to enjoy a quieter domestic life . Occupations of all kinds - those simple but ...
... head and sighed . After the many disturbing circumstances which had lately occurred in the family , all seemed now to long after repose , and the ability to enjoy a quieter domestic life . Occupations of all kinds - those simple but ...
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... heads ! " The young people were very much occupied with plans for the future . Eva and Leonore built all their castles in the air together . A great intimacy had grown up between these two sisters since they were alone during the ...
... heads ! " The young people were very much occupied with plans for the future . Eva and Leonore built all their castles in the air together . A great intimacy had grown up between these two sisters since they were alone during the ...
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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.