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Page 15
How my heart yearned for their love ; and how unsatisfactory were all other
sources of joy , if that which I so intensely desired were withheld ! Oh ! if I had but
known there was One waiting to fill that aching heart with a peace that passeth all
...
How my heart yearned for their love ; and how unsatisfactory were all other
sources of joy , if that which I so intensely desired were withheld ! Oh ! if I had but
known there was One waiting to fill that aching heart with a peace that passeth all
...
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My heart sank within me as I noted the symptoms of growing indifference and
consequent alienation . Jane had brought back with her a new pupil , a talented ,
showy girl of sixteen , who became a general favourite in the house , from the day
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My heart sank within me as I noted the symptoms of growing indifference and
consequent alienation . Jane had brought back with her a new pupil , a talented ,
showy girl of sixteen , who became a general favourite in the house , from the day
...
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And I cannot be false to myself , ” I said consolingly : “ if I cannot find that which I
seek in one direction , I will look for it in another ; and I believe that knowledge ,
like Nature , never did betray the heart that loved her . ' I will cultivate my intellect
...
And I cannot be false to myself , ” I said consolingly : “ if I cannot find that which I
seek in one direction , I will look for it in another ; and I believe that knowledge ,
like Nature , never did betray the heart that loved her . ' I will cultivate my intellect
...
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I looked within , and there was the old void , the old inexpressible yearning , the
old craving for some substantial joy , whereon my baffled , weary heart might feed
and be satisfied . Thank God , I was not , could not be satisfied thank God , no ...
I looked within , and there was the old void , the old inexpressible yearning , the
old craving for some substantial joy , whereon my baffled , weary heart might feed
and be satisfied . Thank God , I was not , could not be satisfied thank God , no ...
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I have tried , already , friendship and learning ; I have tried them in all sincerity
and singleness of heart ; and the past is a blank - a mistake - a page of my life ' s
history to which I shall never in future years care to revert . Now I will try pleasure
.
I have tried , already , friendship and learning ; I have tried them in all sincerity
and singleness of heart ; and the past is a blank - a mistake - a page of my life ' s
history to which I shall never in future years care to revert . Now I will try pleasure
.
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Page 344 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition , sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn ; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
Page 127 - And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy ; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour.
Page 371 - FORASMUCH as it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed, we therefore commit his body to the ground ; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust ; in sure and certain hope of resurrection to eternal life...
Page 61 - Fear ye not me? Saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
Page 262 - WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when she slept And sleeping when she died.
Page 324 - EXCEPT the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: Except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
Page 127 - I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me: I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.
Page 114 - Whom call we gay ? That honour has been long The boast of mere pretenders to the name. The innocent are gay — the lark is gay, That dries his feathers, saturate with dew, Beneath the rosy cloud, while yet the beams 495 Of dayspring overshoot his humble nest.
Page 61 - The waves of the sea are mighty, and rage horribly : but yet the Lord, who dwelleth on high, is mightier.
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| Title | Millicent Kendrick; or, The search after happiness |
| Author | Emma Jane Worboise |
| Publisher | James Clarke & Company, 1862 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 13 Jul 2006 |
| Length | 442 pages |
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