The secret marriage; or, Contrasts in life, Volume 3

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Hurst and Blackett, 1855
 

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Page 112 - But be our experience in particulars what it may, no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain, which created all things anew ; which was the dawn in him of music, poetry and art ; which made the face of nature radiant with purple light, the morning and the night varied enchantments...
Page 259 - Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit. No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love. No truth so sublime but it may be trivial to-morrow in the light of new thoughts. People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
Page 304 - Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth ; Love repulsed, — but it returneth...
Page 274 - ... more ! Like a rose that still in its sweetness springs Where a garden's pride is o'er ; Though the weeds and thorns may have long defaced The place of the perish'd flowers, Yet that lingerer gladdens the cheerless waste With the bloom of its brighter hours ! Our early loved — hath their after-path From our steps far parted been ? Hath the hand of power, or the flame of wrath, On life's barriers risen between ? Yet still, in our dreams, their shadows come O'er the parting waste of years —...
Page 92 - No farther seek his merits to disclose, Nor draw his frailties from their dread abode, — (There they, alike, in trembling hope repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God.
Page 274 - Yet still thy name, thy blessed name, my lonely bosom fills, Like an echo that hath lost itself among the distant hills, Which still, with melancholy note, keeps faintly lingering on, When the jocund sound that woke it first is gone — f M* ever gone.
Page 1 - No man- expects to preserve orange-trees in the open air through an English winter; or when he has planted an acorn, to see it become a large oak in a few months. The mind of man naturally yields to necessity ; and our wishes soon subside when we see the impossibility of their being- gratified. Now, upon an accurate inspection, we shall find, in the moral government of the world, and the order of the intellectual system, laws as determinate fixed and invariable as any in Newton's Principia.
Page 304 - For there comes no change on them. We may love again, and the later ties Of life may be bright and strong, But if broken, never in memory's eyes Will their fragments shine so long : And the shrines of our childhood's stainless faith We may leave them far and cold, But the heart still turns to the stars of youth With a love that ne'er grows old.
Page 323 - She buried her face in her hands, as if to shut out the remembrance of her own passionate words.
Page 38 - Le plaisir de 1'amour est d'aimer, et 1'on est plus heureux par la passion que 1'on a que par celle que 1'on donne.

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