Vashti, Or, "Until Death Us Do Part": A NovelCarleton, 1869 - 473 páginas |
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Agla Aglaophotis beautiful blue Bochim bombazine Carlyle cheek child comfort countenance dear dear boy dear Jane death deodars door Elsie Elsie's escritoire Evelyn eyes face faith feel fingers gaze Gerome girl governess Granville grave gray Grey's hair hand happiness head heard heart heaven hope hour human husband Jane's Jessie kissed leaned leave lips little Muriel live looked MACARIA marriage Maurice Miss Dexter Miss Jane mistress morning mother mournful Muriel muslin never night once oriel window orphan painful pallor parlor patient peace piano poor prayed quiet Robert Maclean rose Salome Owen Salome's seemed shoulder silent sister Solitude soul Stanley stood tears tell tender Thank things thought to-day took touch trust turned utter Vashti Virginian novel voice walked watched weary wife window wish woman young
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Página 165 - And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.
Página 201 - A cry that shiver'd to the tingling stars, And, as it were one voice, an agony Of lamentation, like a wind, that shrills All night in a waste land, where no one comes, Or hath come, since the making of the world. Then murmur'd Arthur, 'Place me in the barge,
Página 34 - Let us alone. Time driveth onward fast, And in a little while our lips are dumb. Let us alone. What is it that will last ? All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful Past.
Página 366 - Wilt thou have this man to thy wedded husband, to live together after God's ordinance, in the holy estate of matrimony? Wilt thou obey him, serve him, love, honor, and keep him, in sickness and in health; and, forsaking all other, keep thee only unto him, so long as ye both shall live?
Página 345 - Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand Henceforward in thy shadow. Nevermore Alone upon the threshold of my door Of individual life, I shall command The uses of my soul, nor lift my hand Serenely in the sunshine as before, Without the sense of that which I forbore — Thy touch upon the palm. The widest land Doom takes to part us, leaves thy heart in mine With pulses that beat double.
Página 366 - N. . . ., wilt thou have this Man to thy wedded husband, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of Matrimony? Wilt thou serve him, love, honour, and keep him in sickness and in health ; and forsaking all others, keep thee only unto him so long as ye both shall live?
Página 380 - But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
Página 201 - ... there hove a dusky barge, Dark as a funeral scarf from stem to stern, Beneath them ; and descending they were ware...
Página 35 - Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.
Página 379 - neath whose eyelids lay The sweet lights of my childhood, one by one Did leave me dark before the natural sun, And I astonied fell and could not pray, — A thought within me to myself did say, ' Is God less God, that thou art left undone? Rise, worship, bless Him, in this sackcloth spun, As in that purple !' — But I answered, Nay ! What child his filial heart in words can loose.