Trials: A Tale, Volumen1

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G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1824 - 957 páginas
 

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Página 31 - But, hail! thou Goddess sage and holy! Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight...
Página 107 - " Lord, to whom shall we go ? — thou hast the words of eternal life.
Página 121 - Not in the strong wind that brake the rocks in pieces, not in the earthquake, not in the fire, but in the still small voice that followed, the Lord made himself known.
Página 107 - O that I had wings like a dove : for then would I flee away, and be at rest.
Página 50 - And from Shakespeare she gained a great store of information amongst the rest, that -'Trifles light as air, Are, to the jealous, confirmation strong, As proofs of Holy Writ.
Página 111 - Habitual evils change not on a sudden: But many days must pass, and many sorrows; Conscious remorse and anguish must be felt, To curb desire, to break the stubborn will, And work a second nature in the soul, Ere Virtue can resume the place she lost: 'Tis else dissimulation — He had often read these lines, he said; but never tasted them before.
Página 159 - His to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel, But who, with filial confidence inspired, Can lift to heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say —
Página 205 - I do it upon the same principle on which I endeavour, imperfectly indeed, but still to the best of my ability to do every thing — the principle of doing to others as I would they should do unto me.
Página 39 - I may not think of Jamie, For that would be a sin. But I maun do my best, A gude wife to be ; For auld Robin Gray Is very kind to me.
Página 48 - It was by this sort of discipline that the heart and affections of a being, whose every nerve "turned at the touch of joy or woe, and turning trembled too...

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