Etna Vandemir: A Romance of Kentucky and "the Great Uprising."Cutter, Tower & Company, 1863 - 366 páginas |
Términos y frases comunes
amid answered Aunt beautiful beneath bitter blossoming bowed breath bright bright eyes brow calm Charles Mackay Charlie child cold cousin crushed dark dead dear death desolation dream earth Elwood Emerson Emington Eolian Etna Etna's eyes face faded fair fearful feeling fell felt flowers Galt House glance gleam glorious glory golden gone Grace grave grief hand happy heard heart heaven hope Howard Lorraine Kentucky kissed knew lady light lips lived look Louisville Legion Lynton Mabel Marion marriage Maytime Mellie memory Miss Winchester morning mother mute Nellie never night once passed proud radiant remember rest Reynolds Robert Meredith seemed shadow side sinking low smile sorrow soul spoke stood strange suffering sunny sweet sweet charity tears tempest thought tones torture tremulous trust uncon Vandemir voice walked wandered waves weary wild Wilton words young وو
Pasajes populares
Página 46 - He has outsoared the shadow of our night; Envy and calumny and hate and pain, And that unrest which men miscall delight, Can touch him not and torture not again...
Página 254 - I remember the gleams and glooms that dart Across the school-boy's brain; The song and the silence in the heart, That in part are prophecies, and in part Are longings wild and vain. And the voice of that fitful song Sings on, and is never still: "A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
Página 200 - Oh ! colder than the wind that freezes Founts, that but now in sunshine play'd, Is that congealing pang which seizes The trusting bosom, when betray'd.
Página 114 - There are some happy moments in this lone And desolate world of ours, that well repay The toil of struggling through it, and atone For many a long, sad night and weary day.
Página 340 - Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; he that believeth not shall be damned.
Página 73 - ... keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope" — we have presumed to court the assistance of the friends of the drama to strengthen our infant institution.
Página 200 - Come! let the burial rite be read - the funeral song be sung! An anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died so young A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.
Página 104 - So idly, that rapt fancy deemeth it A metaphor of peace; — all form a scene Where musing solitude might love to lift Her soul above this sphere of earthliness; Where silence undisturbed might watch alone, So cold, so bright, so still.
Página 148 - TITAN ! to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality, Seen in their sad reality, Were not as things that gods despise ; What was thy pity's recompense ? A silent suffering, and intense ; The rock, the vulture, and the chain, All that the proud can feel of pain...
Página 228 - Darkness and formless vacancy for a beginning, or something beyond all beginning; then next a dim lotos of human consciousness, finding itself afloat upon the bosom of waters without a shore; then a few sunny smiles and many tears ; a little love and infinite strife; whisperings from paradise and fierce mockeries from the anarchy of chaos ; dust and ashes, and once more darkness circling round...