The Pearl Offering: a Compendium of Religious, Literary, and Philosophical KnowledgeL.L. Boardman & Company, 1899 - Всего страниц: 378 |
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... existence of a soul . But wherever civilisation has dawned on the world , and the influence of Christianity been felt , her chains have fallen off - female character has progressively risen , and female education become of greater and ...
... existence of a soul . But wherever civilisation has dawned on the world , and the influence of Christianity been felt , her chains have fallen off - female character has progressively risen , and female education become of greater and ...
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... existence - one which God never intended to be otherwise . What , then , is this highest object of woman's ambition - that in which she feels the deepest interest , and from whence she draws the greatest happiness ? It is to be beloved ...
... existence - one which God never intended to be otherwise . What , then , is this highest object of woman's ambition - that in which she feels the deepest interest , and from whence she draws the greatest happiness ? It is to be beloved ...
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... existence . How mortifying , then , to the ardent admirer of the fair , to find beneath the form of beauty that index of intellect , a starved , meagre , and dwarfish soul ! Flora was once a lovely laughing girl , possessed of all the ...
... existence . How mortifying , then , to the ardent admirer of the fair , to find beneath the form of beauty that index of intellect , a starved , meagre , and dwarfish soul ! Flora was once a lovely laughing girl , possessed of all the ...
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... existence ; for although her ambition is not towering , there is a kind of aristocracy of which she is more ambi- tious than man - she is fonder of distinction in the cir Icle in which she moves . I have often been amused by the ...
... existence ; for although her ambition is not towering , there is a kind of aristocracy of which she is more ambi- tious than man - she is fonder of distinction in the cir Icle in which she moves . I have often been amused by the ...
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... existence . Were she , according to the reli- gion of Mohammed , a soulless creature of the dust , doomed to fret out a few short years on the stage of existence , alternately the toy and the slave of man , and then lie down like a log ...
... existence . Were she , according to the reli- gion of Mohammed , a soulless creature of the dust , doomed to fret out a few short years on the stage of existence , alternately the toy and the slave of man , and then lie down like a log ...
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Стр. 373 - Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore. Not the least obeisance made he ; not a...
Стр. 374 - This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core; This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o'er, But whose velvet violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o'er She shall press, ah, nevermore! Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor. "Wretch...
Стр. 373 - But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you" — here I opened wide the door; Darkness there and nothing more.
Стр. 374 - thing of evil — prophet still, if bird or devil ! By that Heaven that bends above us, by that God we both adore, Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore : Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore !
Стр. 374 - But the Raven still beguiling All my sad soul into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in Front of bird and bust and door ; Then upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking What this ominous bird of yore — What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, Gaunt and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking
Стр. 373 - This it is and nothing more." Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer, " Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore; But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you "—here I opened wide the door.
Стр. 374 - And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor; And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted— nevermore!
Стр. 374 - Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend! " I shrieked, upstarting' "Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore ! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken ! Leave my loneliness unbroken! quit the bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
Стр. 372 - Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and. curious volume of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " "Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more.
Стр. 49 - Lord; and thy saints shall bless thee. They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power; to make known to the sons of men his mighty acts and the glorious majesty of his kingdom.