The triumphs of time [containing Sealed orders; The previsions of lady Evelyn; and A soldier's fortune]. By the author of 'Two old men's tales'. |
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 205 - Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature,...
Seite 321 - ... like the dog to his vomit, and the sow to her wallowing in the mire,' and bet and gamble boldly, because then that will be the fashion.
Seite 153 - Heaven's last best gift, my ever new delight ! Awake : the morning shines, and the fresh field Calls us; we lose the prime, to mark how spring Our tended plants, how blows the citron grove, What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed, How nature paints her colours, how the bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.
Seite 153 - Now morn her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so customed ; for his sleep Was airy light, from pure digestion bred, And temperate vapours bland, which the only sound Of leaves and fuming rills, Aurora's fan, Lightly dispersed, and the shrill matin song Of birds on every bough...
Seite 153 - Leaning half raised, with looks of cordial love Hung over her enamoured, and beheld Beauty which, whether waking or asleep, Shot forth peculiar graces; then, with voice Mild as when Zephyrus on Flora breathes, Her hand soft touching, whispered thus : — " Awake, My fairest, my espoused, my latest found, Heaven's last, best gift, my ever-new delight...
Seite 219 - ... the last state of that man was worse than the first.' No sooner was his health re-established than Fernando was anxious to be afloat again, partly to hasten the time of his probation, partly .to earn more money wherewith to enable him to marry the pure, good child whose heart he had won. His skill in...
Seite 74 - I would you were not almost, but altogether, such as I am, except these bonds.
Seite 52 - I did not understand — yes — much better. Besides, this leave-taking! this leave-taking!' " ' Yes, yes,' said I ; ' don't behave like a child — much better — much better. No leave-taking, if you can help it, or you are lost.' "I wrung his hand, and he went away. <:It went hard enough with me too. " It seems that he kept his secret. I saw them walking arm-in-arm upon the deck, for about a quarter of an hour ; and then they went back to the place where the cord lay ; one of the ship's boys...
Seite 39 - The good little thing seemed uneasy at this, and she stretched her pretty head out of the hammock — like a bird peering out of its nest, and looked at him, her little cherry lips half open, but seeming afraid to disturb him by saying more ; at last, he said — '"Ah! my sweet Laure, as we approach America I cannot help being anxious — I do not know why — but I feel that this voyage has been the happiest part of our lives.
Seite 15 - I asked myself, whether this self-devotion were not, ir. fact, an innate sentiment—a part of ourselves—of the nature born with us; and from that I proceeded to inquire what the precise nature of this instinct, if instinct it were, might be; an instinct which seemed to urge mankind, as by a kind of necessity, to seek pleasure in obedience, and to feel a desire to depose, as it were, their free agency, and consequent responsibility, in other hands; as if thereby a burden was laid down too weighty...