We & our neighborsHoughton, Mifflin, 1896 |
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Popular passages
Page 349 - Come ye thirsty, come and welcome, God's free bounty glorify. True belief and true repentance, Every grace that brings us nigh, Without money, Come to Jesus Christ and buy." It was the last hymn, and they were about breaking up
Page 374 - rather have a good kind man that will worship me. "' A creature not too bright and good For human nature's daily food.' A man like Harry, for instance. Harry isn'ta hero; he's a good, true, noble-hearted boy, though, and
Page 228 - float out in the air and drop in odd corners of the heart, to spring up in good purposes. One of these little ballads reminded Eva of the night she first saw Maggie lingering in the street by her house: — " I stood outside the gate, A poor wayfaring child; Within my heart there beat A tempest
Page 93 - Through cold reproof and slander's blight ? Has she Love's roses on her cheeks ? Is hers an eye of this world's light ? No — wan and sunk with midnight prayer Are the pale looks of her I love ; Or if at times a light be there,
Page 33 - well played is quite as good as the first. What would the first be without it? After all, in this great fuss about the men's sphere and the women's, isn't the women's ordinary work just as important and great in its way
Page 130 - some of the worst vices come through a disordered body, and can be cured only by curing the body. So long as we are in this mortal state, our souls have got to be saved in our bodies and by the laws of our bodies; and a doctor who understands them will do more than a minister who
Page 93 - No — wan and sunk with midnight prayer Are the pale looks of her I love ; Or if at times a light be there,
Page 94 - Is all the grace her brow puts on. And ne'er was Beauty's dawn so bright, So touching, as that form's decay Which, like the altar's trembling light, In holy lustre wastes away.
Page 399 - marry him, six months ago, just as well as I know it now, unless you and she listened to my advice then. So now all we have to do is to make the best of it.
Page 315 - of every successful young clergyman to stir the sympathies and enkindle the venerative faculties of certain excitable women, old and young, who follow his footsteps and regard his works and ways with a sort of adoring rapture that sometimes exposes him to ridicule if he