 O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, — the first fluttering of its silken wings ; the first rising sound and breath of that wind which is so soon to sweep through the soul, to purify or to destroy !...  A Puritan Witch: A Romance - Page 217by Marvin Dana - 1903 - 266 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Europe - 1839 - 238 pages
...thought ! It was like one of those paintings in which all the light streams from the face of the Virgin. O, there is nothing holier in this life of ours, than...consciousness of love, — the first fluttering of its silken wings ; the first rising sound and breath of that wind, which is so soon to sweep through the soul,... | |
 | Artemas Bowers Muzzey - Young women - 1841 - 254 pages
...ask, should the preliminaries of marriage be treated as a theme fit only for levity and merriment? " O there is nothing holier in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, — the first rising sound and breath of that wind, which is so soon to sweep through the soul, to purify or to destroy... | |
 | Artemas Bowers Muzzey - Women - 1842 - 300 pages
...ask, should the preliminaries of marriage be treated as a theme fit only for levity and merriment ? " O there is nothing holier in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love,—the first rising sound and breath of that wind, which is so soon to sweep through the soul,... | |
 | Artemas Bowers Muzzey - Women - 1845 - 282 pages
...other than deleterious to the virtue, peace and happiness, of the parties involved in its effects? "O there is nothing holier, in this life of ours,...than the first consciousness of love, — the first rising sound and breath of that wind, which is so soon to sweep through the soul, to purify, or to... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Fiction - 1848 - 316 pages
...thought! It was like one of those paintings in which all the light streams from the face of the Virgin. O, there is nothing holier in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love,-—the first fluttering of its silken wings ; the first rising sound and breath of that wind... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Europe - 1851 - 376 pages
...thought ! It was like one of those paintings in which all the light streams from the face of the Virgin. O, there is nothing holier in this life of ours, than...consciousness of love — the first fluttering of its silken wings — the first rising sound and breath of that wind which is so soon to sweep through the soul,... | |
 | Lost inheritance - 1852 - 938 pages
...similitudes, and shadowy resemblances to the inner nature which reigns in man's heart. CHAPTER X. Oh ! there is nothing holier in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love : this first fluttering of its silken wings, the first rising sound and breath of that wind which is... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Authors, American - 1853 - 382 pages
...thought ! It was like one of those paintings in which all the light streams from the face of the Virgin. O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours,...consciousness of love, — the first fluttering of its silken wings ; the first rising sound and breath of that wind which is so soon to sweep through the soul,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 388 pages
...! It was like one of those paintings in which all the light streams from the face of the Virgin. 0, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than...consciousness of love, — the first fluttering of its silken wings ; the first rising sound and breath of that wind which is so soon to sweep through the soul,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American literature - 1861 - 498 pages
...thought ! It was like one of those paintings in which all the light streams from the face of the Virgin. O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours,...consciousness of love, — the first fluttering of its silken wings ; the first rising sound and breath of that wind which is so soon to sweep through the soul,... | |
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