Isabella, by the author of 'Rhoda'.

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Seite 267 - O, sir, to wilful men, The injuries, that they themselves procure, Must be their schoolmasters...
Seite 103 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee; for whither thou goest, I will go; where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God, my God.
Seite 131 - Ev'n when he hied him forth to meet The open air in lawn or street, She to her casement went, And after him, with smile so sweet, Her look of blessing sent. The heart's affection, — secret thing ! Is like the cleft rock's ceaseless spring, Which free and independent flows Of summer rains or winter snows. The fox-glove from its side may fall, The heath-bloom fade or moss-flower white, But still its runlet, bright tho' small, Will issue sweetly to the light.
Seite 175 - And in the storms of life, tho' moved, unyielding ; Strength in her gentleness, hope in her sorrow, Whose darkest hours some ray of brightness borrow From better days to come, whose meek devotion Calms every wayward passion's wild commotion ; In want and...
Seite 181 - And if, senators, you have thought me hard and close as to salaries and expenditures, I trust you will do me the justice to believe that it is not from any doubt of the ability of our country to pay, or from a base and selfish desire for cheap reputation, or from a disinclination to pay my share ; but because I see in the dim future of our country the...
Seite 142 - Riches and strength lift up the heart: But the fear of the Lord is above them both : There is no want...
Seite 131 - ... casement went, And after him, with smile so sweet, Her look of blessing sent The heart's affection, — secret thing ! Is like the cleft rock's ceaseless spring, Which free and independent flows Of summer rains or winter snows. The foxglove from its side may fall The heathbloom fade or moss-flower while, t is chill, the cloud is gray: Tis a month before the month of May, And the XLVIII.
Seite 117 - ... the lover mines. With distant voice neglected Virtue calls, Less heard and less, the faint remonstrance falls ; Tir'd with contempt, she quits the slippery reign, And Pride and Prudence take her seat in vain In crowd at once, where none the pass defend, The harmless Freedom, and the private Friend. The guardians yield, by force superior ply'd ; By Interest, Prudence ; and by Flattery, Pride.
Seite 54 - His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles, his heart as free from fraud, as earth from heaven.
Seite 346 - And dart not scornful glances from those eyes, To wound thy lord, thy king, thy governor ; It blots thy beauty, as frosts bite the meads ; Confounds thy fame, as whirlwinds shake fair buds ; And in no sense is meet or amiable. TS v. 2. Would it not grieve a woman to be over-mastered by a piece of valiant dust ? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marie ? MA ii.

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