Amy Wilton; Or, Lights and Shades of Christian LifeJames Clarke & Company, 1883 - 307 pages |
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Agnes Amy and Marian Amy Wilton Amy's Anglo-Catholic Applethwaite beautiful beloved blessed blue bright brow butcher's wife called calm chancel child Christ Christian church Clarice Cliff-Stanton cloth cold Constance countenance Cross Fell Crown 8vo dark dark summit daughters dear Duncanson earthly Egerton Elizabeth ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Emma and Carry eyes Fairfield faith father fear feel FELICIA HEMANS flowers gazed girl glorious grey grief Hannah happy heart Helen Helm wind Henry Deane Henry's Hermitage holy hope husband Ilfracombe Isabel Laura letter light Liverpool look mamma mind Miss morning mother mountains never night once pale passed Payne peace Pixies poor prayer quiet Rayland returned Ringdown rose seemed shadows silent sister smile sorrow spirit sweet tears thought Threlkeld tion Tractarianism walk weary week wife Wilton and Amy young
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Page 271 - Oh, fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know ere long, Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.
Page 10 - Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
Page 235 - Think not of rest; though dreams be sweet, Start up, and ply your heaven-ward feet. Is not God's oath upon your head, Ne'er to sink back on slothful bed, Never again your loins untie, Nor let your torches waste and die, Till, when the shadows thickest fall, Ye hear your Master's midnight call?
Page 117 - He shall not be afraid of evil tidings : his heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD.
Page 249 - And never won. Dream after dream ensues ; And still they dream that they shall still succeed, And still are disappointed.
Page 72 - Alas ! how changed from the fair scene, When birds sang out their mellow lay, And winds were soft, and woods were green, And the song ceased not with the day.
Page 237 - tis blood Out of a dear Friend's side. A few calm words of faith and prayer, A few bright drops of holy dew, Shall work a wonder there Earth's charmers never knew.
Page 158 - From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
Page 55 - Past, But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast And the days are dark and dreary. Be still, sad heart ! and cease repining ; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining ; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.
Page 21 - With a soft cheek upon the lulling tide, Forgot the lifting winds; and the long stems, Whose flowers the water, like a gentle nurse, Bears on its bosom, quietly gave way, And leaned, in graceful attitudes, to rest. How strikingly the course of nature tells, By its light heed of human suffering, That it was fashioned for a happier world ! King David's limbs were weary.