The Home: Or, Family Cares and Family Joys, Volume 2Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843 - Swedish fiction |
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... once again the hard , unsightly , and joy- less rock . But do you see , young maiden , the idea will not leave me , that those roses which I saw in my dream are hidden in me ; that they may yet bloom , yet rejoice and make happy . The ...
... once again the hard , unsightly , and joy- less rock . But do you see , young maiden , the idea will not leave me , that those roses which I saw in my dream are hidden in me ; that they may yet bloom , yet rejoice and make happy . The ...
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... Once I bound myself to a friend , he deserted me , and thence grew the rock about my heart ; thence became my demeanour severe , unattractive , and rough . Is it to remain so always ? Will my life never bloom upon earth ? Will no breath ...
... Once I bound myself to a friend , he deserted me , and thence grew the rock about my heart ; thence became my demeanour severe , unattractive , and rough . Is it to remain so always ? Will my life never bloom upon earth ? Will no breath ...
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... once before ; a remembrance from the days of her childhood awoke within her ; her eyelids sunk , and a burning crimson covered her face . " You have forgotten yourself , " continued he calmly , but severely , " and in your childish ...
... once before ; a remembrance from the days of her childhood awoke within her ; her eyelids sunk , and a burning crimson covered her face . " You have forgotten yourself , " continued he calmly , but severely , " and in your childish ...
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... once again around you , in order to shield you from far more dangerous winds - Sara , my child , fly not from this house ! " Sara trembled , she was violently agitated , and leaned her head with indescribable emotions against her ...
... once again around you , in order to shield you from far more dangerous winds - Sara , my child , fly not from this house ! " Sara trembled , she was violently agitated , and leaned her head with indescribable emotions against her ...
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... once open their eyes and ears , they will find subjects enough on which to use them ; and will be astonished at all that life will present them with . It is well when home furnishes nourishment for mind as well as heart and body . I ...
... once open their eyes and ears , they will find subjects enough on which to use them ; and will be astonished at all that life will present them with . It is well when home furnishes nourishment for mind as well as heart and body . I ...
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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.