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" ... come upon us by anticipation. A thrill passes over us, it is true, whensoever we read the name of a place where we have once been happy, but it is the privilege of a tranquil state of melancholy to people the mind with quiet visions of the past, and... "
The Maiden Aunt - Page 205
by Menella Bute Smedley - 1849 - 241 pages
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Sharpe's London Magazine: a Journal of Entertainment and ..., Volume 5

1848 - 322 pages
...engaging it for the winter, instead of occupying the small cottage in its neighbourhood where she bad been passing the last few months and at which Edith...thoughts have either become callous, or were never .-.live to their acutest painfulness. They know not the sensation of utter powcrlessnese which has...
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Sharpe's London magazine, a journal of entertainment and ..., Volumes 5-6

Anna Maria Hall - 1848 - 612 pages
...memorial sorrow does not excite the imagination and во come upon us by anticipation. A thrill pusses over us, it is true, whensoever we read the name of...thoughts have either become callous, or were never i.live to their acutest painfulness. They know not the sensation of utter powerlessness which has no...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 16

1848 - 636 pages
...melancholy to people the mind with quiet visions of the past, and to embody, as it were, and localize the picture by particular features of landscape or...powerlessness which has no alternative but escape or prusi ration — the cowardice of a bleeding and undefended heart. Every tree or stone that we see...
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The Golden Present: A Gift for All Seasons

Mrs. J. Thayer - 1853 - 144 pages
...melancholy to people the mind with quiet visions of the past, and to embody as it were, and localize the picture by particular features of landscape or...of an unmellowed grief leaves no leisure, no power of such embellishments of sorrow. Those who involuntarily dwell upon unhappy thoughts have either become...
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