Life and Letters of Harriet Beecher StoweAnnie Fields Houghton, Mifflin, 1897 - 406 strán (strany) Individual letters and fragments of letters composed by author Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe (1811-96) between 1827 and 1893 are incorporated here into a continuous biographical narrative of Stowe's life. Though the materials assembled inadequately represent Stowe's correspondence, they do give a sense of her views on religion, marriage, child rearing, slavery, and writing. |
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... strong in spirit as well as in body , always readers and thinkers , always ani- mated with love of the public good , and holding it pre- dominant above private good . The grandfather of Mrs. Stowe was " one of the best read men in New ...
... strong in spirit as well as in body , always readers and thinkers , always ani- mated with love of the public good , and holding it pre- dominant above private good . The grandfather of Mrs. Stowe was " one of the best read men in New ...
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... strong , restful , yet widely sympathetic natures , in whom all around seemed to find comfort and repose . She was of a temperament peculiarly restful and peace - giving . Her union of spirit with God , unruffled and unbroken even from ...
... strong , restful , yet widely sympathetic natures , in whom all around seemed to find comfort and repose . She was of a temperament peculiarly restful and peace - giving . Her union of spirit with God , unruffled and unbroken even from ...
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... strong for her years . A love of wit and humor was as natural to her as to her grandmother , and , as we have seen , they enjoyed much together . Mrs. Stowe writes of this visit : " Among my earliest recollections are those of a visit ...
... strong for her years . A love of wit and humor was as natural to her as to her grandmother , and , as we have seen , they enjoyed much together . Mrs. Stowe writes of this visit : " Among my earliest recollections are those of a visit ...
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... strong in me , having come down by ordinary genera- tion from a long line of Puritan ancestry , and just now it made me long to do something , I knew not what : to fight for my country , or to make some declaration on my own account ...
... strong in me , having come down by ordinary genera- tion from a long line of Puritan ancestry , and just now it made me long to do something , I knew not what : to fight for my country , or to make some declaration on my own account ...
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... strong expressions . ' " I went home absorbed and wondering about Byron ; and after that I listened to everything that father and mother said at the table about him . I remember hearing father relate the account of his separation from ...
... strong expressions . ' " I went home absorbed and wondering about Byron ; and after that I listened to everything that father and mother said at the table about him . I remember hearing father relate the account of his separation from ...
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Andover anti-slavery Aunt Esther beautiful Beecher blessed Boston brother Brunswick called Catherine cheerful child Christ Christian church Cincinnati Cleon comfort daughters dear death Duchess Duchess of Argyll England eyes faith father feel felt Florida flowers friends genius George Eliot girl give H. B. STOWE hand Harriet Harriet Beecher Stowe Hartford hear heard heart heaven Henry Henry Ward Beecher hope hour Howard husband labor Lady Byron letter Litchfield live look Lord Lyman Beecher Mandarin mind Minister's Wooing morning mother never night once Orr's Island pleasant poor Professor Stowe remember scene seemed sister slave slavery sorrow soul spirit story Stowe wrote Stowe's strong suffering sympathy talk tell things thought tion told Uncle Tom Uncle Tom's Cabin wife winter wish woman women wonderful write written young
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Strana 40 - Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as Angels weep, burst forth: at last Words, interwove with sighs, found out their way.
Strana 38 - The works of the LORD are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.
Strana 321 - Therefore, whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light ; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.
Strana 40 - To speak; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers: Attention held them mute.
Strana 323 - And some among you held, that if the King Had seen the sight he would have sworn the vow : Not easily, seeing that the King must guard That which he rules, and is but as the hind To whom a space of land is given to plow. Who may not wander from the allotted field Before his work be done...
Strana 309 - Fear not ; I am the first and the last, and the Living one ; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive for evermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.
Strana 107 - ... we arrive at heaven our home, Faith is our guide, and faith our light. 2 The want of sight she well supplies; She makes the pearly gates appear ; Far into distant worlds she pries, And brings eternal glories near. 3 Cheerful we tread the desert through, While faith inspires a heavenly ray, Though lions roar, and tempests blow, And rocks and dangers fill the way.
Strana 391 - Tis joy enough, my All in All, At thy dear feet to lie ; Thou wilt not let me lower fall, And none can higher fly.
Strana 278 - Purest ! There is a temple, sacred evermore, And all the babble of life's angry voices Dies in hushed stillness at its peaceful door.