The two brothers, by the author of 'The discipline of life'.

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Hurst and Blackett, 1858
 

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Página 271 - The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
Página 247 - SAID I not so, that I would sin no more ? Witness my God, I did ; Yet I am run again upon the score : My faults cannot be hid. What shall I do ? Make vows, and break them still?
Página 95 - And like a tide that up a river steals And reaches to a lilied bank, began To lift up life beneath her. As a child She still was simple, — rather shall I say More simple than a child, as being lost In deeper admirations and desires.
Página 40 - Her younger sister, that Speranza hight, Was clad in blew, that her beseemed well ; Not all so chearefull seemed she of sight, As was her sister; whether dread did dwell Or anguish in her hart, is hard to tell: Upon her arme a silver anchor lay, Whereon she leaned ever, as befell : And ever up to heaven, as she did pray, Her stedfast eyes were bent, ne swarved other way.
Página 25 - ... twas not their vulgar pride, Who, in their base contempt, the great deride; Nor pride in learning, though my clerk agreed, If fate should call him, Ashford might succeed ; Nor pride in rustic skill, although we knew None his superior, and his equals few: But if that spirit in his soul had place, It was the jealous pride that shuns disgrace; A pride in honest fame, by virtue...
Página 153 - A silent and loving woman is a gift of the Lord ; And there is nothing so much worth as a mind well instructed.
Página 25 - Pride, in the power that guards his country's coast, And all that Englishmen enjoy and boast; Pride, in a life that slander's tongue defied,— In fact, a noble passion, misnamed pride.
Página 293 - There is an evil and a good In every soul, unknown to thee — A darker or a brighter mood Than aught thine eye can ever see • Words, actions faintly mark the whole That lies within a human soul Perhaps thy sterner mind condemns Some...
Página 235 - • the lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord.
Página 170 - None remember thee now fhou'rt gone ! Or they could not choose but weep? When they thought of thee, my gentle one, In thy long and lonely sleep. Fain would I murmur thy name, and tell How fondly together we used to dwell — • But none remember thee Save me ! TOWH HAVE BEEN FRIENDS G ETHER.

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