Sharpe's London magazine, a journal of entertainment and instruction. [entitled] Sharpe's London journal. [entitled] Sharpe's London magazine, conducted by mrs. S.C. Hall, Volumes 2-3Anna Maria Hall |
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... death , grew but the more indomitable , when he saw how ra- diant she had become , in the loveliness of her life's early summer . Richard made a violent effort , as his eye met her bright , piercing gaze , to chase from his countenance ...
... death , grew but the more indomitable , when he saw how ra- diant she had become , in the loveliness of her life's early summer . Richard made a violent effort , as his eye met her bright , piercing gaze , to chase from his countenance ...
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... death , to know that a very ocean of thought and feeling lies smouldering in my soul , but to consume it in its miserable inaction . Life has its chances and its perils , I well know , but it has also its joys and sparkling pleasures ...
... death , to know that a very ocean of thought and feeling lies smouldering in my soul , but to consume it in its miserable inaction . Life has its chances and its perils , I well know , but it has also its joys and sparkling pleasures ...
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... death , which alone would be its termination . Yet she saw there could be no appeal from this mysterious decree ; she knew her brother well enough to feel certain that he would willingly have given his own life to have spared her such a ...
... death , which alone would be its termination . Yet she saw there could be no appeal from this mysterious decree ; she knew her brother well enough to feel certain that he would willingly have given his own life to have spared her such a ...
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... death - sleep in which the doctor found him . " And it would have been death long before this hour , " spoke the doctor , with a feeling that brought tears to his Flora's eyes . " But now you must talk no more , if you intend to leave ...
... death - sleep in which the doctor found him . " And it would have been death long before this hour , " spoke the doctor , with a feeling that brought tears to his Flora's eyes . " But now you must talk no more , if you intend to leave ...
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... death on the scaffold , sitting silent , with eyes rivetted on one spot , the finger pressed upon the closed lips , refusing medicine , wish- ing for death , deaf to all words , excepting those of prayer . How unlike are the pictures ...
... death on the scaffold , sitting silent , with eyes rivetted on one spot , the finger pressed upon the closed lips , refusing medicine , wish- ing for death , deaf to all words , excepting those of prayer . How unlike are the pictures ...
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Page 213 - For the living know that they shall die : but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward ; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
Page 249 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence ? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate. So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted ; But yet a union in partition, Two lovely berries moulded on one stem ; So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart : Two of the first, like coats...
Page 213 - Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not ; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight. How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?
Page 57 - THEY tell us of an Indian tree, Which, howsoe'er the sun and sky May tempt its boughs to wander free, And shoot, and blossom, wide and high, Far better loves to bend its arms Downward again to that dear earth, From which the life, that fills and warms Its grateful being, first had birth. 'Tis thus, though woo'd by flattering friends, And fed with fame (if fame it be) This heart, my own dear mother, bends, With love's true instinct, back to thee ! LOVE AND HYMEN.
Page 64 - Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high-minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy ; that they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate, laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
Page 213 - Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; a land of darkness, as darkness itself, and of the shadow of death, without any order and where the light is as darkness.
Page 356 - His happy home, the ground. To left and right, The cuckoo told his name to all the hills ; The mellow ouzel fluted in the elm ; The redcap whistled ; and the nightingale Sang loud, as tho
Page 341 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 134 - Tis good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new 1" The party which sat down to dinner at Hazlehnrst Grange on that day was a very seleet one.
Page 150 - ... ordinary ; if you expected to see an ordinary woman, you would think her pretty ; but her manners are simple, ardent, impressive. In every motion her most innocent soul outbeams so brightly that who saw her would say : Guilt was a thing impossible in her. Her information various ; her eye watchful in minutest observation of Nature; and her taste a perfect electrometer.