In a Walled GardenWard and Downey, 1895 - 324 páginas |
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Página 22 - Paris unbelievers in Christianity, and even professed Atheists. As I chose on all occasions to appear as a Christian, I was told by some of them that I was the only person they had ever met with, of whose understanding they had any opinion, who professed to believe Christianity.
Página 149 - If in my heart I now could fear that, risen again, we should not know What was our Life of Life when here—the hearts we loved so much below ; I would arise this very day, and cast so poor a thing away.
Página 17 - excelling in everything relating to household affairs, she entirely relieved me of all concern of that kind, which allowed me to give all my time to the prosecution of my studies." It is a tradition in the family that Mrs. Priestley once sent her famous
Página 151 - criminals all are sheltered, They are pitied, and taught, and fed; That is only a sister—woman, Who has got neither food nor bed— And the Night cries, ' Sin to be living,' And the River cries,' Sin to be dead.
Página 145 - Happening one day to dine with an old and dear friend, distinguished in literature as ' Barry Cornwall/ I took with me an early proof of the Christmas number of Household
Página 16 - recommend the knowledge and practice of music to all studious persons, and it will be better for them if, like myself, they should have no very fine ear or exquisite taste, as by this means they will be more easily pleased and be less apt to be offended when the performances they hear are but indifferent." In 1761 he moved to Warrington,
Página 150 - People say things cannot be helped, dear, But then that is the reason why ; For if things could be helped or altered, One would never sit down to cry.
Página 137 - he and four or five other officers, four women, and a child, escaped. The men were "obliged to drop the women a fearful height from the walls of the fort amidst showers of bullets. They were seven days and
Página 153 - And we know when the Purification, Her first feast, comes round, The early spring flowers to greet it Just opening are found; And pure, white, and spotless, the snowdrop Will pierce the dark ground.