Won by WaitingHurst & Blackett, 1887 - Всего страниц: 395 |
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admirable afternoon asked Espérance AUTHOR OF JOHN beautiful began Bella Bertha carriage Cathedral Ceylon charming Château chérie Christabel Claude Magnay Claude's cold colour comfort Cornelia cousin crusader's tomb DAVID ELGINBROD Dean Collinson Deanery dear delighted door drawing-room English Espé Espérance looked Espérance's exclaimed eyes face father feel felt Frances French Gaspard GENTLEMAN glad hand happy hear heard heart hope humour hurried interest Javotte JEANNE D'ALBRET JOHN HALIFAX JULIA KAVANAGH kind knew Lady Worthington laughed letter Llanberis Lowdell Mabillon Madame Lemercier minutes Miss morning Mortlake Mortlake's never night novel OLIPHANT once papa perhaps poor child Precentor quiet relief replied returned Rilchester SAM SLICK seemed siege Sir Henry sister smiling soon speak stay story sure talk tears tell thank things thought took troubles turned voice waiting walked watched window wish wondered words
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Стр. 116 - Her tears fell with the dews at even, Her tears fell ere the dews were dried, She could not look on the sweet heaven, Either at morn or eventide. After the flitting of the bats, When thickest dark did trance the sky, She drew her casement curtain by, And glanced athwart the glooming flats. She only said, ' The night is dreary, , He cometh not...
Стр. 1 - One adequate support For the calamities of mortal life Exists — one only; an assured belief That the procession of our fate, howe'er Sad or disturbed, is ordered by a Being Of infinite benevolence and power; Whose everlasting purposes embrace All accidents, converting them to good.
Стр. 80 - He fixed thee mid this dance Of plastic circumstance, This Present, thou, forsooth, wouldst fain arrest : Machinery just meant To give thy soul its bent, Try thee and turn thee forth, sufficiently impressed.
Стр. 102 - Earth is sick, And Heaven is weary, of the hollow words Which States and Kingdoms utter when they talk Of truth and justice.
Стр. 253 - WHEN some beloved voice that was to you Both sound and sweetness, faileth suddenly, And silence against which you dare not cry, Aches round you like a strong disease and new — What hope ? what help ? what music will undo That silence to your sense? Not friendship's sigh. Not reason's subtle count. Not melody Of viols, nor of pipes that Faunus blew. Not songs of poets, nor of nightingales, Whose hearts leap upward through the cypress-trees To the clear moon ! nor yet the spheric laws Self-chanted,...
Стр. 153 - O dreary life ! " And still the generations of the birds Sing through our sighing, and the flocks and herds Serenely live while we are keeping strife With Heaven's true purpose in us, as a knife Against which we may struggle ! Ocean girds Unslackened the dry land, savannah-swards...
Стр. 311 - So spake the false dissembler unperceived ; For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone, By his permissive will, through heaven and earth : And oft, though Wisdom wake, Suspicion sleeps At Wisdom's gate, and to Simplicity Resigns her charge, while Goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems...
Стр. 238 - Life, I repeat, is energy of love Divine or human ; exercised in pain, In strife, and tribulation ; and ordained, If so approved and sanctified, to pass, Through shades and silent rest, to endless joy.