Ella Lincoln: Or, Western Prairie Life, an AutobiographyJ. French, 1857 - 353 pages |
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Ella Lincoln, Or Western Prairie Life: An Autobiography (Classic Reprint) Mrs. Eliza Ann Woodruff Hopkins No preview available - 2017 |
Ella Lincoln, Or Western Prairie Life: An Autobiography (Classic Reprint) Mrs. Eliza Ann Woodruff Hopkins No preview available - 2018 |
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Alexander Stubbs Allen Lincoln asked babe baby beautiful better bless boarders bosom boys Branch of Peace called cassimeres CHAPTER child chirography church cold Dayton dear dear Ella doctor dollars door Downham dress editor Ella Lincoln Etta eyes face father felt Florence Day friends gazed gentleman girl gone hand happy Harry and Tommy head heard heart Hollyville hope hour husband Jeannie John Bird kind knew lady live look mamma Mariette Mehitabel Miss mistress morning mother muslin never night parlor Peggy Peter McMahon pillow Placerville pleasant Pompeii poor prairie rolled sake seemed sick slough smile sorrow stage wagon stairs strange stranger suffering Sutphen sweet sympathy tears tell things thought Trall wagon weary week wife Willow-dale wish woman Woodville words write York House young
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Page 236 - Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?
Page 41 - Whence thou return'st, and whither went'st, I know For God is also in sleep, and dreams advise, Which he hath sent propitious, some great good Presaging, since, with sorrow and heart's distress Wearied, I fell asleep: but now lead on; In me is no delay; with thee to go Is to stay here; without thee here to stay Is to go hence unwilling; thou to me Art all things under heaven, all places thou, Who for my wilful crime art banished hence. This further consolation yet secure I carry hence; though all...
Page 154 - Her lot is on you !— silent tears to weep, And patient smiles to wear through suffering's hour, And sumless riches, from affection's deep, To pour on broken reeds— a wasted shower ! And to make idols, and to find them clay, And to bewail that worship — therefore pray!
Page 32 - Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind ; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind...
Page 268 - Inasmuch as ye did it not unto one of the least of these, ye did it not to me And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
Page 106 - He was a man Who stole the livery of the court of heaven, To serve the devil in...
Page 156 - THERE'S not a look, a word of thine My soul hath e'er forgot ; Thou ne'er hast bid a ringlet shine, Nor given thy locks one graceful twine, Which I remember not...
Page 31 - I've mingled with rapturous zest; For how slight is the touch that will...
Page 357 - He that writes, Or makes a feast, more certainly invites His judges than his friends : there's not a guest But will find something wanting or ill-drest.
Page 66 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest: welcome at an inn.