Richard Edney and the Governor's Family

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1850 - 468 pages
 

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Page 175 - And sailed through bloody seas? 3 Are there no foes for me to face ? Must I not stem the flood ? Is this vile world a friend to grace, To help me on to God...
Page 241 - In what style the cloud of dust, that has served as an outrider alf the way, passes off when the coach stops ! How the villagers — the blacksmith, the shoemaker, the thoughtful politician, and the boozy loafers,, that fill the stoop — grin and stare, and make their criticism ! How he flings the reins and the tired horses to the stableboy, who presently returns with a splendid relay ! How he accepts these from the boy with that sort of air with which a king might be supposed to take his crown...
Page 373 - Had it pleased heaven To try me with affliction; had they rained All kinds of sores and shames on my bare head, Steeped me in poverty to the very lips, Given to captivity me and my utmost hopes, I should have found in some place of my soul A drop of patience...
Page 375 - For her my tears shall fall ; For her my prayers ascend ; To her my cares and toils be given, Till toils and cares shall end.
Page 46 - IT was an extreme night, and the mercury fell to a great depth before morning. One man, who raised the largest cucumbers, and had the most satisfactory children, and drove the prettiest carryall, said his thermometer, at thirty-eight minutes after seven, stood at five and threequarters below zero. At any rate, it was cold enough ; and Richard felt it, when he left the house, after supper. Its first onset was suffocating, like a...
Page 10 - Factories, and factory life — how it glowed at that moment to his eyes ! and even his own ideal notions thereof were more than transfigured before him, and he envied the girls, some of whom he knew, who, through that troubled winter night, were tending their looms as in the warmth, beauty, and quietness of a summer-day.
Page 280 - Art, as well as nature, was to Mr. Judd a study and delight ; and the relations of the one to the other he loved to trace. " Trees," he says, in " Richard Edney," " considered as an avenue for the eye to traverse, enhance the beauty of objects at the end of it. The reader has looked through trees at water or the sky, and witnessed this effect. Nature, like art, seems to require a border in order to be finished.
Page 100 - Enlargement, aggrandizement, glory, fame, are natural to the human breast; they are natural to my breast. Power, might, are honorable; and these I study to exercise. To make you believe I am sick when...
Page 241 - How he flings the reins and the tired horses to the stableboy, who presently returns with a splendid relay ! How he accepts these from the boy with that sort of air with which a king might be supposed to take his crown from the hands of a valet! There are his gloves, withal ;-— he always wears gloves, as much as a Saratoga fine-lady, and would no sooner touch anything without gloves than such a lady would a glass of Congress water.
Page 322 - ... are to be had only in the open air, and in forms of exercise that give sprightliness and robustness to the body. At the same time, there needs to be a preparation of devices for the entertainment of children indoors in the evening; for the prophet did not give it as a picture of the happy days of Jerusalem, that the streets of the city should be full of boys and girls playing there in the evening, or into the night, away from their parents and the supervision of their home.

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