The Home: Or, Family Cares and Family Joys, Volume 2Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843 - Swedish fiction |
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... whole world opens itself to the eye of man , and infinite treasures are offered to his soul , more , far more , than he can ever appropriate to himself ! " " But the artist , " argued Sara , " the artist cannot form himself at home - he ...
... whole world opens itself to the eye of man , and infinite treasures are offered to his soul , more , far more , than he can ever appropriate to himself ! " " But the artist , " argued Sara , " the artist cannot form himself at home - he ...
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... whole household , and make the most exquisite natural gifts of no account . The Judge missed a daughter from the beloved circle ; missed that beautiful , richly - endowed girl , and could not think of her future prospects without bitter ...
... whole household , and make the most exquisite natural gifts of no account . The Judge missed a daughter from the beloved circle ; missed that beautiful , richly - endowed girl , and could not think of her future prospects without bitter ...
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... whole days in the country , but every evening at seven he punctually joined the family circle and was there the merriest of the merry . " We live now right happily , " said he one evening in confidential discourse with his mother ...
... whole days in the country , but every evening at seven he punctually joined the family circle and was there the merriest of the merry . " We live now right happily , " said he one evening in confidential discourse with his mother ...
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... friend . Stjernhök came . He was received by the whole family with the greatest cordiality , but by no one with a warmer heart than Henrik . There was even externally the greatest dissimilarity between these two AND FAMILY JOYS . 35.
... friend . Stjernhök came . He was received by the whole family with the greatest cordiality , but by no one with a warmer heart than Henrik . There was even externally the greatest dissimilarity between these two AND FAMILY JOYS . 35.
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... whole household in order beforehand ; and Gabriele heartily amuses herself with such fragments of their enter- taining conversation as reach her ear , while they sit on the sofa in the library talking of love and economy . But it is not ...
... whole household in order beforehand ; and Gabriele heartily amuses herself with such fragments of their enter- taining conversation as reach her ear , while they sit on the sofa in the library talking of love and economy . But it is not ...
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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.