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D. Appleton, 1853 - 399 頁

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第 33 頁 - Commit thy way unto the Lord ; trust also in him, and he will bring it to pass.
第 19 頁 - Father ! oh, my father, speak — bless, forgive me !" at length Reuben wildly exclaimed, breaking from that convulsive hold to sink as a penitent upon the earth. He spoke in vain ; the spirit had lingered to gaze once more upon the firstborn of his love, then fled from earth for ever. CHAPTER II. IT is two years after the mournful event recorded in our last chapter that we recommence our simple narrative. When time and prayer had softened the first deep affliction, the widow and her family indeed...
第 5 頁 - He will discern between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who serve Him not.
第 vi 頁 - Court Journal. HOME SCENES. — " Grace Agnilar knew the female heart better than any writer of our day, and in every fiction from her pen we trace the same masterly analysis and development of the motives and feelings of woman's nature.
第 400 頁 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we sleep and when we wake.
第 74 頁 - He hath no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live...
第 ii 頁 - This beautiful story was completed when the authoress was little above the age of nineteen, yet it has the sober sense of middle age. There is no age nor sex that will not profit by its perusal, and it will afford as much pleasure as profit to the reader.
第 v 頁 - It is a volume which may be considered as solid history, but is nevertheless entertaining as the most charming novel ever produced by genius, sir Walter Scott's name as an author would not have been disgraced by it had it appeared on the title-page instead of Grace Aguilar.
第 v 頁 - The tale is well told, the interest warmly sustained throughout, and the delineation of female character is marked by a delicate sense of moral beauty. It is a work that may be confided to the bauds of a daughter by her parent.
第 162 頁 - This fixed and sacred hold. In thy dark prison-house, In the terrific face of armed law, Yea, on the scaffold, if it needs must be, I never will forsake thee.

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