The Home: Or, Family Cares and Family Joys, Volume 2Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843 - Swedish fiction |
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... wood , and laid her warm lily - white hand on the rock , and pressed her pure lips upon it , breathing a magical word of free- dom . The rocky wall opened itself , and the heart , the poor captive heart , saw the light ! The young girl ...
... wood , and laid her warm lily - white hand on the rock , and pressed her pure lips upon it , breathing a magical word of free- dom . The rocky wall opened itself , and the heart , the poor captive heart , saw the light ! The young girl ...
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... woods and streams , those noblest foundations of Sweden's wealth , and to which it was worth while devoting a good head ; and now , instead of that , he hangs his on one side ; sits with a pen in his hand , and rhymes ' face ' and ...
... woods and streams , those noblest foundations of Sweden's wealth , and to which it was worth while devoting a good head ; and now , instead of that , he hangs his on one side ; sits with a pen in his hand , and rhymes ' face ' and ...
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... woods are felled on their banks and corn - fields cultivated ; human dwellings spring up , and cheerful activity and joyful voices enliven the country . Look ! that may be called a beautiful creation ! " Henrik was silent . " But ...
... woods are felled on their banks and corn - fields cultivated ; human dwellings spring up , and cheerful activity and joyful voices enliven the country . Look ! that may be called a beautiful creation ! " Henrik was silent . " But ...
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... Wood - god , had carried away her childish mind and conducted her into false tracks ; and it was so even now ; for while she moved night and day in a dream - world in which she luxuriated to exultation , in magnificent and wonderful ...
... Wood - god , had carried away her childish mind and conducted her into false tracks ; and it was so even now ; for while she moved night and day in a dream - world in which she luxuriated to exultation , in magnificent and wonderful ...
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... will again go out together and enjoy all the freshness and quiet . of the woods . And would it not be a blessed thing to wander thus calmly through life , endeavouring to improve ourselves , and to make all those around us 50 FAMILY CARES.
... will again go out together and enjoy all the freshness and quiet . of the woods . And would it not be a blessed thing to wander thus calmly through life , endeavouring to improve ourselves , and to make all those around us 50 FAMILY CARES.
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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.