The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone. Shadows of evening fall around us, and the world seems but a dim reflection, — itself a broader shadow. We look forward into the coming lonely night. The... A Blameless Woman - Page 54by John Strange Winter - 1895 - 315 pagesFull view - About this book
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Country life - 1839 - 234 pages
...had found a name for one of his heroes. Here, also, shall church-bells be rung, but more solemnly. The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone. Shadows of evening fall around us, and the world seems but a dim reflection, — itself a broader shadow.... | |
| Christian literature, American - 1844 - 398 pages
...— her heart drank in no consolation from the repose of the hour. She began to realize how truly " the setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun."* All her young and warm affections were centered in the frail, dying being who lay before her, and as... | |
| American literature - 1846 - 302 pages
...be forgotten in his day, But surely shall be crowned at last with those Who live and speak for aye. The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone. Shadows of evening fall around us, and the world seems but a dim reflection,— itself a broader shadow.... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Fiction - 1848 - 316 pages
...had found a name for one of his heroes. Here, also, shall church-bells be rung, but more solemnly. The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone. Shadows of evening fall around us, and the world seems but a dim reflection—itself a broader shadow.... | |
| American periodicals - 1848 - 580 pages
...dear (well I 'm glad you have stuck yourself with a pin !) Hubby I ' Faithfully yours, — ' MAB.Y.' ' THE setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone. Shadows of evening fait around us, and the world seems but in dim reflection — itself a broader shadow.... | |
| Child rearing - 1850 - 408 pages
...That it never be bruised again — Till the chariot come to bear thee up, With the glorified to reign. THE setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone. Shadows of evening fall around us, and the world seems but a dim reflection — itself a broader shadow.... | |
| 318 pages
...and effect are two sides of one fact. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. LONGFELLOW. The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun, Time has a Doomsday Book, upon whose pages he is continually recording illustrious names. Glorious... | |
| E C baroness de Calabrella - 1850 - 292 pages
...ask for it; as all about that letter seemed to vex and anger her Ladyship.'" VOL. HI. CHAPTER IV. " The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun—the brightness of our life is gone. . . . • • • * • He went abroad that the sea might... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Europe - 1851 - 376 pages
...had found a name for one of his heroes. Here, also, shall church bells be rung, but more solemnly. The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone. Shadows of evening fall around us, and the world seems but a dim reflection— itself a broader shadow... | |
| Emma Jane Worboise - 1852 - 312 pages
...lovely than the sunny glare of noontide. Do you remember, mamma, my favourite passage in Hyperion ? ' The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun; shadows of evening fall around us, the world seems but a dim reflection, itself a broader shadow. We... | |
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