The Ladies' Companion, Tập 13William W. Snowden, 1840 |
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arms Aubrey beautiful beneath blood bosom breath bright brow canoe Catharine character cheek Chevalier child cold cried dark daugh death deep Don Giovanni door dream earth Edith Edward Clark Edward Lytton exclaimed eyes face fancy Fanny Elssler father fear feeling fell felt flowers gaze gentle Gerald Sanderson girl Glengyle hand happy head heard heart Heaven honor hope hour husband Jane knew lady light lips Locustville look Mantua marriage Mary melan mind Mohawk morning mother Mozart nature never night noble o'er once pale passed passion Pawnee replied returned rich river RUFUS DAWES SAMUEL WOODWORTH scarcely scene SEBA SMITH seemed silence sister sleep smile sorrow soul sound spirit stood strange stranger sweet Tahmeroo tears thee thing thou thought tion trees trembling turned voice Walter Butler wife wild woman words young youth
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Trang 3 - The passage of the Potomac through the Blue Ridge is, perhaps, one of the most stupendous scenes in nature. You stand on a very high point of land. On your right comes up the Shenandoah, having ranged along the foot of the mountain an hundred miles to seek a vent.
Trang 139 - The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art, Reigns, more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart : The proud, to gain it, toils on toils endure ; The modest shun it, but to make it sure.
Trang 3 - ... that in this place particularly they have been dammed up by the Blue ridge of mountains, and have formed an ocean which filled the whole valley ; that continuing to rise they have at length broken over at this spot, and have torn the mountain down from its summit to its base.
Trang 233 - This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.
Trang 130 - I am convinced, that where men are the most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken, and have there given reins to passion, without that proper deliberation and suspense, which can alone secure them from the grossest absurdities.
Trang 3 - For the mountain being cloven asunder, she presents to your eye, through the cleft, a small catch of smooth blue horizon, at an infinite distance in the plain country, inviting you, as it were, from the riot and tumult roaring around, to pass through the breach and participate of the calm below.
Trang 291 - Distinctions of colour are of his ordination. It is he who gives existence. In your temples, to his name the voice is raised in prayer : in a house of images, where the bell is shaken, still he is the object of adoration.
Trang 229 - Often he would desire those who came to see him to pray by him, and a year before he fell sick, to kneel and pray with him alone in some corner. How thankfully would he receive admonition ! how soon be reconciled ! how indifferent, yet continually cheerful ! He would give grave advice to his brother John, bear with his impertinences, and say he was but a child.
Trang 78 - There was a time," he said, in mild, Heart-humbled tones — " thou blessed child ! When, young and haply pure as thou, I look'd and pray'd like thee — but now — " He hung his head — each nobler aim And hope and feeling, which had slept From boyhood's hour, that instant came Fresh o'er him, and he wept — he wept ! Blest tears of soul-felt penitence ! In whose benign, redeeming flow Is felt the first, the only sense Of guiltless joy that guilt can know. "There's a drop...
Trang 3 - ... at an infinite distance in the plain country, inviting you, as it were, from the riot and tumult roaring around, to pass through the breach and participate of the calm below. Here the eye ultimately composes itself; and that way too the road happens actually to lead.