 Patience and abnegation of self, and devotion to others, This was the lesson a life of trial and sorrow had taught her. So was her love diffused, but, like to some odorous spices, Suffered no waste nor loss, though filling the air with aroma.  Eliza Cook's Journal - Page 271edited by - 1849Full view - About this book
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 614 pages
...transfigured; He had become to her heart as one who is dead, and not absent; Patience and abnegation of self, and devotion to others, This was the lesson...taught her. So was her love diffused, but, like to some odorous spices, Suffered no waste nor loss, though filling the air with aroma. Other hope had she none,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Publishers' bindings - 1894 - 748 pages
...transfigured ; He had become to her heart as one who is dead, and not absent ; Patience and abnegation of self, and devotion to others, This was the lesson...taught her. So was her love diffused, but, like to some odorous spices, Suffered no waste nor loss, though filling the air with aroma. Other hope had she none,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 588 pages
...transfigured ; He had become to her heart as one who is dead, and not absent ; Patience and abnegation of self, and devotion to others, This was the lesson...taught her. So was her love diffused, but, like to some odorous spices. Suffered no waste nor loss, though filling the air with aroma. Other hope had she none,... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1883 - 782 pages
...Pt. ii. * 498 SELF-RESPECT — SENSIBILITY. Patience, and abnegation of self, and devotion to oOVi%, This was the lesson a life of trial and sorrow had taught L*i 4630 Longfellow : Evanrjeline. Pt. ii. v. Line 31. BENSE. Something there is more needful than... | |
 | Diurnal - 1885 - 246 pages
...is their native element. WILLIAM MOUHTKORD. iBn0eIfi0f>iu00, JBo&emfcer 27. PATIENCE and abnegation of self, and devotion to others, This was the lesson...and sorrow had taught her. So was her love diffused, like to some odorous spices, Suffered no waste nor loss, though filling the air with aroma. Other hope... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 560 pages
...dead, and not absent ; Patience and abnegation of self, and devotion to others, This was the lesson я life of trial and sorrow had taught her. So was her love diffused, but, like to some odorous spices, Suffered no waste nor loss, though tilling the air with aroma. Other hope had she none,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1887 - 360 pages
...transfigured ; He had become to her heart as one who is dead, and not absent ; Patiencb and abnegation of self, and devotion to others, This was the lesson...taught her. So was her love diffused, but, like to some odorous spices, Suffered no waste nor loss, though filling the air with aroma. Other hope had she none,... | |
 | College prose, American - 1888 - 138 pages
...depths there gleams a strange, wild yearning and flashes a quenchless hope. " Patience and abnegation of self, and devotion to others, This was the lesson, a life of trial and sorrow had taught her." Thus she lived as a Sister of Mercy, visiting day after day the wretched hovels of the poor; comforting,... | |
 | William Boyd Carpenter - Religion - 1889 - 494 pages
...not thine own soul, regard not thine own weal." Tupper, " Of Discretion." "Patience and abnegation of self, and devotion to others, This was the lesson...taught her. So was her love diffused, but like to some odorous spices, Suffered no waste nor loss, tho' filling the air with aroma." Longfelloic, " JSvangeline,"-part... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1889 - 264 pages
...transfigured ; He had become to her heart as one who is dead, and not absent ; Patience and abnegation of self, and devotion to others, This was the lesson...taught her. So was her love diffused, but, like to some odorous Suffered no waste nor loss, though filling the air with aroma. Other hope had she none, nor... | |
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