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" The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal — every other affliction to forget; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open — this affliction we cherish and brood over in... "
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1857 - 224 pages
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 25

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1821 - 596 pages
...attachment. The latter must be continually refreshed and kept alive by the presence of its object; but the love that is seated in the soul can live on...willingly forget the infant that perished like a blossom som from her arms, though every recollection is a pang ? Where is the child that would willingly forget...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 25

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero - 1821 - 612 pages
...attachment. The latter must be continually refreshed and kept alive by the presence of its object; but the love that is seated in the soul can live on...willingly forget the infant that perished like a blossom som from her arms, though every recollection is a pang? Where is the child that would willingly forget...
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, Volume 1

Washington Irving - 1821 - 354 pages
...Every other wound we seek to heal — every other affliction to forget; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open — this affliction we cherish...recollection is a pang? Where is the child that would wilh'ngly forget the most tender of parents, though to remember be but to lament? Who, even in the...
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The Mental Guide: Being a Compend of the First Principles of Metaphysics ...

1828 - 394 pages
...Every other wound we seek to heal — every other affliction to forget ; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open — this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude. Where is the mother that would willingly forget the infant that perished like a blossom from her arms, though every recollection...
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The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [pseud.] ...

Washington Irving - 1829 - 522 pages
...Every other wound we seek to heal — every other affliction to forget ; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open — this affliction we cherish...solitude. Where is the mother who would willingly forget tftte infant that perished like a blossom from her arms', though every recollection is a pang ? Where...
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The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Esq, Volume 1

Washington Irving - 1834 - 320 pages
...Every other wound we seek to heal — every other affliction to forget ; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open — this affliction we cherish...mother who would willingly forget the infant that pierished like a blossom from her arms, though every recollection is a pang ? Where is the child that...
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Volume 1

Washington Irving - 1835 - 196 pages
...forget; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open — this affliction we cherish and hrood over in solitude. Where is the mother who would willingly...blossom from her arms; though every recollection is pang ? Where is the child that would willingly forget the most tender of parents , though to remember...
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The Millennial Harbinger and Voluntary Church Advocate, Volumes 1-2

1835 - 398 pages
...heal— every other affliction to forget; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open—this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude. Where is the mother that would willingly forget the infant that perished like a blossom from her arms, though every recollection...
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The Saturday Magazine, Volume 8

1836 - 282 pages
...Every other wound we seek to heal — every other affliction to forget ; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open — this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude. Wherd is the mother who would willingly forget the infant that perished like a blossom from her arms,...
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Hours of sadness: or, Instruction and comfort for the mourner

Hours - 1839 - 230 pages
...is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced, Every other wound we seek to heal,—every other affliction to forget; but this wound we consider...recollection is a pang? Where is the child that would forget the most tender of parents, though to remember be but to lament? Who, even in the hour of agony,...
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