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agitation Anne Neville answered arms asked beautiful blessing brow calm Charles Neville cheek child cold Colonel Leslie color countenance Dalton dark daugh dear deep Donnington Castle door Edmund Neville emotion England exclaimed expression eyes face Father Francesco fear feel felt forgive garet gazed Genoa gentle Ginevra girl glance hand happiness head heard heart Heaven Henry Leslie Heron Castle hope hour instant Italian Italy kissed Lake of Lucerne Leslie's letter lips looked low voice Lucy manner Margaret marriage marry Maud mind misery Miss Leslie murmured never Neville's Newfoundland dog night once opened pale passed passion perhaps replied round scarcely scene secret seemed silence sister smile soul speak spirit spoke stood strange suffering tears tell thing Thornton thought tion tone took trembled truth turned Verona Warren watched whispered wife wish words Wyndham young
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Page 102 - Was praying at the old oak tree. Amid the jagged shadows Of mossy leafless boughs, Kneeling in the moonlight, To make her gentle vows...
Page 159 - Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes: With every thing that pretty is, My lady sweet, arise: Arise, arise.
Page 243 - You know I am incapable of the weakness of jealousy, Peter; but what I have seen with my own eyes, and heard with my own ears, in this disguise, must command credit, however reluctantly granted.
Page 29 - Pure religion and undefiled before God, the Father, is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world.
Page 41 - How many resolutions are formed—how many sublime conquests effected during that pause, when the lips are closed, and the soul secretly feels the eye of her Maker upon her! When some of those cutting, sharp, blighting words have been spoken which send the hot indignant blood to the face and head, if those to whom they are addressed keep silence, look on with awe, for a mighty work is going on within them, and the Spirit of Evil, or their Guardian-angel, is very near to them in that hour.
Page 200 - And then the peace that Jesus beams, The life of grace, the death of sin, With nature's placid woods and streams, Is peace without, and peace within. Delightful...
Page 41 - They are the strong ones of the earth — the mighty food for good or evil — those who know how to keep silence when it is a pain and a grief to them ; those who give time to their own souls to wax strong against temptation, or to the powers of wrath to stamp upon them their withering passage.