Violet: Or, The Cross and the Crown |
Common terms and phrases
an't answered asked Violet Baillie beautiful beside better boat cabin called cap'in Capt Captain Ross Caroline carriage cheek child clasped cried dear Papa Ross deck Devereux Dick Van Dyke doctor door drew Duvo Edward exclaimed eyes face father fear feeling felt flowers gentleman girl give goin hand happy Harrington head hear heard heart hope hour Jamieson jist Katy Katy's lady laugh leave lips looked Louisa Luce ma'am Merton Miss Briôt Miss Van Dyke Miss Violet morning mother never oman pale passionate emotion Peyton poor poor Violet promise Ross Hall sail scarcely seat seemed ship silent sloop smile soon speak spoke Spriggins Squan Beach state-room stood Sunbury tell tender thing thought told tone turned voice walk Wi'let Wild wish words wrecker young
Popular passages
Page 103 - Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment : who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain : Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters : who maketh the clouds his chariot : who walketh upon the wings of the wind...
Page 221 - And all the rule, one empire ; only add Deeds to thy knowledge answerable, add faith Add virtue, patience, temperance, add love By name to come called charity, the soul Of all the rest; then wilt thou not be loth To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A paradise within thee, happier far.
Page 382 - May the winds blow till they have waken'd death ! And let the labouring bark climb hills of seas, Olympus-high ; and duck again as low As hell's from heaven ! If it were now to die, 'Twere now to be most happy ; for, I fear, My soul hath her content so absolute, That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
Page 121 - I WOULD not live alway : I ask not to stay Where storm after storm rises dark o'er the way ; The few lurid mornings that dawn on us here, Are enough for life's woes, full enough for its cheer. 2 I would not live alway...
Page 104 - They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them. Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they tum not again to cover the earth.
Page 121 - Name ever dear to me ! When shall my labors have an end, In joy and peace and thee...
Page 142 - Well, do not swear: although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract to-night: It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be Ere one can say 'It lightens.
Page 309 - To bring me berries, or such cooling fruit As the kind hospitable woods provide. They left me then, when the gray-hooded Even, Like a sad votarist in palmer's weed, Rose from the hindmost wheels of Phoebus
Page 108 - Elegance of style is not to be weighed against purity of heart, purity both from the lusts of the flesh, the lusts of the eye, and the pride of life.
Page 173 - Pray, pray, thou who also weepest, And the drops will slacken so ; Weep, weep : — and the watch thou keepest. With a quicker count will go. Think : — the shadow on the dial For the nature most undone, Marks the passing of the trial, Proves the presence of the sun...