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Page 118 - the sins of the fathers shall be visited on the children to the third and fourth generation," is not an arbi° Combe's Constitution of Man, seventh edit., p.
Page 237 - They that go down to the sea in ships : and occupy their business in great waters; These men see the works of the Lord : and his wonders in the deep.
Page 127 - I'll some day come, with pride, And serve thee, from sun to sun ; Meantime, all my wishes flee To thy nest beyond the sea ! Mourn not ! let a brighter doom Breed no anguish in thy mind : If the rose hath most perfume, It hath still the thorn behind : If the sun be at its height, Think what follows, — certain night. Murmur not ! whatever ill Cometh, am I not thy friend?
Page 59 - The lips that every care assuage — The hand that thrills the heart in youth, And smooths the couch in age — With these — the human — human love Will twine its thoughts and weave its doom, And still confound the life above With death beneath the tomb...
Page 59 - The old material chain ? The stars that pierced this darksome state May fade in that meridian shore, And human love, like human hate, Be memory, and no more. We will not think it — for in vain Were all our dreams of Heaven could show, Without the hope to love again What we have loved below. But still the heart will haunt the well Wherein the golden bowl lies broken, And treasure in the narrow cell The past's most holy token. Or wherefore grieve above the dead, Why bid the rose-tree o'er them bloom,...
Page 58 - ... clouds are dark on mine ; — I know not why — since in the tomb No instinct fires the silent heart — And yet it seems a thought of gloom That we should ever part; — That journeying through the toilsome past, Thus hand in hand and side by side, The rest we reach should, at the last, The weary ones divide ; That the same breezes should not sigh The self-same funeral boughs among, Nor o'er one grave at daybreak die The nightbird's lonely song: — A foolish thought — for WE are not The...
Page 207 - ... assent to whatever the lady, whose wealth he aspired to possess, asserted. The party soon withdrew; and a short time afterwards, Emmerson read in the newspaper the announcement of the marriage of Sir Henry St Ives to the Lady Lamerton, relict of the late Sir Matthew Lamerton, Knight, of Clapham Rise ; a union which the scene in his studio had not a little tended to facilitate. The portrait was never completed ; for the simple reason, that the lady deeming it unlikely that the artist could render...
Page 205 - « It's no use refusing, I must positively look," and suiting the action to the word, Lady Lamerton rose from her seat, and placed herself before the picture. After contemplating it for a few minutes, she exclaimed, " I don't think it the least like. Only look at the eyes ; mine, surely, are very different?" " Very different, indeed,
Page 59 - And smoothes the couch in age ; With these — The Human — human love Will twine its thoughts and weave its doom, And still confound the life above With death beneath the tomb ! And who shall tell, in yonder skies, What earthlier instincts we retain ; What link, to souls released, supplies The old material chain ? The stars that pierced this darksome state May fade in that meridian shore ; And human love, like human hate, Be memory — and no more ! Away the doubt ! alas, how cold Would all the...
Page 60 - Italian shore, And feed thy soul with glorious art, And drink again of classic lore. " Nor haply wilt thou deem it wrong, When not in mood too gravely wise, At idle length to lie along, And quaff a bliss from bluest skies. " Or pleased more pensive joy to woo, - At falling eve, by ruin grey, Move o'er the generations who Have passed, as we must pass, away.

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