Everley [by miss Cornish].1855 |
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... comfort to papa when she was gone . Papa held me up to kiss her , she was so weak she could not raise her head , and there were tears in her eyes , but then papa took me away because it was too much for her , and I never saw her again ...
... comfort to papa when she was gone . Papa held me up to kiss her , she was so weak she could not raise her head , and there were tears in her eyes , but then papa took me away because it was too much for her , and I never saw her again ...
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... comfort you when you feel lonely and solitary , ( as most people do at times , ) and guide you when you are doubtful and uncertain . " " And I shall need strengthening and guiding , Georgy , for I shall be like a stranger in my home ...
... comfort you when you feel lonely and solitary , ( as most people do at times , ) and guide you when you are doubtful and uncertain . " " And I shall need strengthening and guiding , Georgy , for I shall be like a stranger in my home ...
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... comfort , can be content to struggle all their lives , to attain that end of which most of us are so blindly neglectful . And those who can so resolve and so act , will even in this world , taste of a hap- piness and peace with which ...
... comfort , can be content to struggle all their lives , to attain that end of which most of us are so blindly neglectful . And those who can so resolve and so act , will even in this world , taste of a hap- piness and peace with which ...
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... comfort it was to have her at home again . But all these things took up a great deal of time , and she was rather disconcerted when she found that she had no leisure for reading , and that when she reached her room , usually after ...
... comfort it was to have her at home again . But all these things took up a great deal of time , and she was rather disconcerted when she found that she had no leisure for reading , and that when she reached her room , usually after ...
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... comfort to have opened her heart to Georgina , and asked her advice ; but Evelyn had a strong feeling against discussing her family in any way , and she could not have told her own difficulties without laying them open to criticism ...
... comfort to have opened her heart to Georgina , and asked her advice ; but Evelyn had a strong feeling against discussing her family in any way , and she could not have told her own difficulties without laying them open to criticism ...
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Popular passages
Page 216 - Let us do our work as well, Both the unseen and the seen ; Make the house, where Gods may dwell, Beautiful, entire, and clean. Else our lives are incomplete, Standing in these walls of Time, Broken stairways, where the feet Stumble as they seek to climb. Build to-day, then, strong and sure, With a firm and ample base ; And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place.
Page 474 - No one is so accursed by fate, No one so utterly desolate, But some heart, though unknown / Responds unto his own.
Page 268 - He needs must think of her once more, How in the grave she lies; And with his hard, rough hand he wipes A tear out of his eyes.
Page 336 - A servant with this clause makes drudgery divine; who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, makes that and the action fine.
Page 492 - Sweet is the smile of home ; the mutual look When hearts are of each other sure ; Sweet all the joys that crowd the household nook, The haunt of all affections pure...
Page 378 - If you have no power of giving: An arm of aid to the weak, A friendly hand to the friendless, Kind words, so short to speak, But whose echo is endless: The world is wide, — these things are small, They may be nothing, but they are All.
Page 455 - Abide with me from morn till eve, For without Thee I cannot live ; Abide with me when night is nigh, For without Thee I dare not die.
Page 11 - Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, Lead thou me on ! The night is dark and I am far from home; Lead thou me on ! Keep thou my feet; I do not ask to see The distant scene; one step enough for me.