Bright Sunbeams in Dark Dwellings: a Tale of the Coventry Distress1861 |
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appear beautiful blessed BOOK of PSALMS bright CHAPTER cheer child Christian church Clevedon cloth clouds comfort Coventry Croesus Crown 8vo dance dark dear distress door eyes father feel felt girl Grantley grave Hanmore Lawson happy Harvey Waterland hear heart heaven heerd holy hope husband JAMES NISBET knew ladies live look Lord LORD'S PRAYER mamma marriage marry Mayberry Mayberry's mind miss mother neighbourhood once papa parish party passed pastor Peeping Tom poor poverty pray prayer promises Queen's Hotel quiet readers rector rest rience says Sea of Galilee seemed seen Shelford shew shore Simon Sir Harry sister smile soon Sophia sorrowful spires spirit St Michael's Church streets sunbeam sure tear tell thought true trust village walk Warwickshire watched waves weeks whilst wife and daughter window wish wonder
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Page 88 - We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best.
Page 212 - Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
Page 36 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 60 - That it may please thee to bring into the way of truth all such as have erred, and are deceived; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.
Page 60 - Church; that it may be so guided and governed by thy good spirit, that all who profess and call themselves Christians may be led into the way of truth, and hold the faith in unity of spirit, in the bond of peace, and in righteousness of life. Finally, we commend to thy fatherly goodness all those who are any ways afflicted or distressed in mind, body or estate...
Page 19 - MY gracious Lord, I own Thy right To every service I can pay, And call it my supreme delight To hear Thy dictates, and obey. 2 What is my being, but for Thee, Its sure support, its noblest end ? Thy ever-smiling face to see, And serve the cause of such a Friend...
Page 106 - For though in dreadful whirls we hung High on the broken wave, I knew thou wert not slow to hear, Nor impotent to save. The storm was laid, the winds retired, Obedient to thy will ; The sea, that roar'd at thy command, At thy command was still.