Praise and principle; or, For what shall I live? By the author of 'Conquest and self-conquest'. By M. M'Intosh |
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Page 59 - Some have too much, yet still do crave; I little have, and seek no more. They are but poor, though much they have, And I am rich with little store: They poor, I rich; they beg, I give; They lack, I leave; they pine, I live.
Page 41 - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Page 212 - We twa hae run about the braes, And pu'd the gowans fine ; But we've wandered mony a weary foot Sin auld lang syne.
Page 18 - Around her playful lips do glitter Heat-lightnings of a girlish scorn ; Harmless they are, for nothing bitter In that dear heart was ever born. That merry heart that cannot lie Within its warm nest quietly, But ever from the full dark eye, Is looking kindly night and morn.
Page 155 - Now in thy youth, beseech of Him Who giveth, upbraiding not; That his light in thy heart become not dim, And his love be unforgot; And thy God, in the darkest of days, will be, Greenness, and beauty, and strength to thee.
Page 126 - Let me gaze a while on that marble brow, On that full dark eye, on that cheek's warm glow ; Let me gaze for a moment, that, ere I die, I may read thee, maiden, a prophecy. That brow may beam in glory a while ; That cheek may bloom, and that lip may smile ; That full, dark eye may brightly beam In life's gay morn, in hope's young dream ; But clouds shall darken that brow of snow, And sorrow blight thy bosom's glow. I know by that spirit so haughty and high, I know by that brightly-flashing eye, growth...
Page 155 - Come and see ! trust thine own eyes ! A fearful sign stands in the house of life An enemy ; a fiend lurks close behind The radiance of thy planet — O be warned ! Deliver not thyself up to these heathens To wage a war against our holy church.
Page 217 - And darkness lighten more, till, full of awe, You stand in the open sunshine unaware !" " Thou dwell'st on sorrow's high and barren place, But round about the mount an angel-guard — Chariots of fire, horses of fire, encamp To keep thee safe for heaven," LET us follow to the suburbs of the city.
Page 129 - It was a simple portrait of a young man, holding a letter in one hand, and resting the other on a table. The perfection of the painting, as a work of art, made it valuable in the eyes of others, but to Ida it was the face itself, witb 132 An " Old
Page 116 - Frank endeavoured to find some diversion from his angry thoughts in the observation of passing objects. He had not been long thus engaged when his attention was attracted by the old gentleman who had left the Bank after his entrance, and who was now returning to it with a brisk step, and hurrying along, as it appeared, a more sluggish companion — a man seemingly of a different order, coarse in person, and ungainly in his movements. Frank's What can it Mean ? 119 Attention once attracted to this...