The Home: Or, Family Cares and Family Joys, Volume 2Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843 - Swedish fiction |
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... tell me , is not the so - lauded happiness of domestic life more a chimera than any other ? When the saloon is set in order , one does not see the broom and the dusting - brush that have been at work in it , and the million grains of ...
... tell me , is not the so - lauded happiness of domestic life more a chimera than any other ? When the saloon is set in order , one does not see the broom and the dusting - brush that have been at work in it , and the million grains of ...
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... Tell me , Elise , what you wish ; what you would like . " " Let us remain here ! " said Elise , giving her hand to her husband , and seating herself beside him . " I know that you would have no pleasure in a higher rank , in a larger ...
... Tell me , Elise , what you wish ; what you would like . " " Let us remain here ! " said Elise , giving her hand to her husband , and seating herself beside him . " I know that you would have no pleasure in a higher rank , in a larger ...
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... tell you something about myself . I looked at myself this morning in the glass no satirical looks , my love ! and it seemed to me as if I appeared strong and healthy . I thought of you , thought how good and kind you were , and how ...
... tell you something about myself . I looked at myself this morning in the glass no satirical looks , my love ! and it seemed to me as if I appeared strong and healthy . I thought of you , thought how good and kind you were , and how ...
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... tell you that nothing can console me for Petrea's absence , excepting your return . We are all of us terribly longing after ́our Rose . ' I know very well who beside your own family longs for this same thing . " I must tell you that a ...
... tell you that nothing can console me for Petrea's absence , excepting your return . We are all of us terribly longing after ́our Rose . ' I know very well who beside your own family longs for this same thing . " I must tell you that a ...
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... tell you the whole truth , Leonore , and how this has happened between us . You know that in the University , about three years ago , a sort of literary society of young men gathered themselves about me . Perhaps they esteemed my ...
... tell you the whole truth , Leonore , and how this has happened between us . You know that in the University , about three years ago , a sort of literary society of young men gathered themselves about me . Perhaps they esteemed 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.