The Home: Or, Family Cares and Family Joys, Volume 2Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843 - Swedish fiction |
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... heaven call forth my roses ? " Do you fear my melancholy temperament ? Oh , you have not seen how a glance , a word of yours chases every cloud from my brow ; not because you are beautiful , but because you are good and pure . Will you ...
... heaven call forth my roses ? " Do you fear my melancholy temperament ? Oh , you have not seen how a glance , a word of yours chases every cloud from my brow ; not because you are beautiful , but because you are good and pure . Will you ...
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... heavens ! as you have given me a basket , * you shall receive in return a little box . I bought it for my - bride , Eva ! Yet now , after all , Eva shall have it ; shall keep it for my sake . She may return it when I cease to be " Her ...
... heavens ! as you have given me a basket , * you shall receive in return a little box . I bought it for my - bride , Eva ! Yet now , after all , Eva shall have it ; shall keep it for my sake . She may return it when I cease to be " Her ...
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... heaven . And where , Sara , where in this world will you find an existence free from earthly dust ? And is that of which you complain so bitterly any thing else than the earthly husk which encloses every mortal existence of man as well ...
... heaven . And where , Sara , where in this world will you find an existence free from earthly dust ? And is that of which you complain so bitterly any thing else than the earthly husk which encloses every mortal existence of man as well ...
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... heaven cleared itself anew , and they were able to confess that a more joyful tranquillity had diffused itself over all . There was no one who did not think of Sara with sympathy , who did not weep sometimes at her violent separation ...
... heaven cleared itself anew , and they were able to confess that a more joyful tranquillity had diffused itself over all . There was no one who did not think of Sara with sympathy , who did not weep sometimes at her violent separation ...
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... heaven above , thoughts arise in me , feelings take possession of me , nameless sweet feelings , and then expressions and words speak in me which affect me deeply , and give me inexpressible delight ; then all that is great and good in ...
... heaven above , thoughts arise in me , feelings take possession of me , nameless sweet feelings , and then expressions and words speak in me which affect me deeply , and give me inexpressible delight ; then all that is great and good in ...
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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.