Hagar: A Story of To-day

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Redfield, 1852 - American literature - 300 pages
 

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Page 179 - Our toils obscure, and a' that; The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The Man's the gowd for a" that. What though on hamely fare we dine, Wear hoddin gray, and a' that; Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine, A Man's a Man for a
Page 280 - Existence may be borne, and the deep root Of life and sufferance make its firm abode In bare and desolated bosoms : mute The camel labours with the heaviest load, And the wolf dies in silence, — not...
Page 24 - She was serene and smiling then, and yet She knew she was by him beloved,— she knew, For quickly comes such knowledge, that his heart Was darken'd with her shadow, and she saw That he was wretched, but she saw not all. He rose, and with a cold and gentle grasp He took her hand; a moment o'er his face A tablet of unutterable thoughts Was traced, and then it faded, as it came; He...
Page 202 - To live within himself; she was his life, The ocean to the river of his thoughts, Which terminated all: upon a tone, A touch of hers, his blood would ebb and flow, And his cheek change tempestuously— his heart Unknowing of its cause of agony.
Page 115 - ... that Obedience brightens the moral eyesight — Sin darkens. Let all men know this, and keep it in mind always — that a single narrowest, simplest Duty, steadily practised day after day, does more to support, and may do more to enlighten the soul of the Doer, than a course of Moral Philosophy taught by a tongue which a soul compounded of Bacon, Spenser, Shakspeare, Homer, Demosthenes, and Burke — to say nothing of Socrates, and Plato, and Aristotle, should inspire.
Page 115 - Perception lives — and thereby it too changes for better and for worse. This is the Divine Law — at once encouraging and fearful — that Obedience brightens the moral eyesight — Sin darkens. Let all men know this, and keep it in mind always — that a single narrowest, simplest Duty, steadily practised day after day, does more to support, and may do more to enlighten the soul of the Doer, than a course of Moral Philosophy taught by a tongue which a soul compounded of Bacon, Spenser, Shakspeare,...
Page 24 - Oh, Caloiis, Thy words have touched a string of memory's lyre, And waked the key-note of the saddest dirge That Fancy ever played to Melancholy ! — 1 dreamed last night — how could I have forgotten ! I dreamed we stood before St. Michael's altar, Breathing eternal vows — when — oh ! how strange ! Suddenly, without cause, you tore away The holy cross down from above the altar, And trampled it beneath your sandaled feet — Oh, such...
Page 179 - O hope ! sweet flatterer ! thy delusive touch Sheds on afflicted minds the balm of comfort, — Relieves the load of poverty, — sustains The captive, bending with the weight of bonds, — And smoothes the pillow of disease and pain.

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