... affections till they are shed abroad in all their plenitude, the purposes of their creation become fulfilled. They were to life like a sleeping ocean to a bright but barren and silent shore. When the breeze from afar awakened it, new lights began... Miscellanies - Seite 170von Harriet Martineau - 1836 - 402 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Thomas Louis Haines, Levi W. Yaggy - 1881 - 672 Seiten
...breeze from afar awakened it, new lights began to gleam, and echoes to be heard; rich and unthought-of treasures were cast up from the depths; the barriers...of life, and clear-sighted to discern its issues! Marriage is, to a woman, at once the happiest and saddest event of her life; it is the promise of future... | |
| Thomas Louis Haines, Levi W. Yaggy - 1882 - 656 Seiten
...breeze from afar awakened it, new lights began to gleam, and echoes to be heard ; rich and unthought-of treasures were cast up from the depths ; the barriers of individuality were broken down ; and from thenceforth, they who chose might "hear the mighty waters rolling evermore." Would that all could know... | |
| Florence Fenwick Miller - 1884 - 246 Seiten
...affections, until they are shed abroad in their plenitude, the purposes of creation become fulfilled. Would that all could know how, by this mighty impulse,...of life, and clear-sighted to discern its issues. . . . For that piety which has humanity for its object — must not that heart feel most of which tenderness... | |
| Penelope Frederica Fitzgerald - 1887 - 436 Seiten
...of truth. Idiopsychology is of little worth. " Would that all could know how, by this mighty impuhe, new strength is given to every power ; how the intellect...to explore the path of life, and clear-sighted to determine its issues." — Idem. " The birthday of my life is come — my love is come to me." —... | |
| Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1892 - 382 Seiten
...love, is burning, there is the temple of worship, be it only beside the humblest village hearth. . . . Would that all could know how, by this mighty impulse,...of life, and clear-sighted to discern its issues." Later she says in her " Tale of the Tyne," in a conversation between a young husband and wife : " Do... | |
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