I change the name, and thou dost write to me; And in this age, as sad almost as thine, Thy stately Consolations are mine.
So it came about that to the poor woman the Colonel's courteous, if somewhat sarcastic, consolations were really very welcome.
I was present at the time, and did my best to soothe his last moments with such consolations as can be offered by a relative who is not a clergyman.
The consolationsof the Ideal are vigorous: they do not encourage idle sentiment: they recommend to the sufferer, action.
So the loss, though loss it be, will purify you, and vim and vigor be found in the consolations of the Ideal.
The author exceedingly extols the peace and sweetness which a soul, crucified to the world, enjoys with the consolations of the Holy Ghost, who resides in her.
As soon as it was dressed he insisted on returning to the women's ward, where he had be offering pious consolations to a dying person at the moment they had come to inform him of the frightful danger caused by the escape of Morok.
Consolations on the death of his wife and mother, 464 CXXXV.
But I forgave you not the consolationsthat you whispered in the ear of a wretched and insulted wife.
And how dare you assume that any temporal advantages could atone for that of which your teachings must deprive them--the heavenly consolations of the love of Christ?
There were thus many hours when he turned to the silent consolations of the chapel.
Then to miss the consolations of God consciously, with pain, is the first step towards recovering them.
Furstenberg took this first opportunity to persuade her to taste of the consolations of religion, and to try the virtue of the sacraments of the church.
These consolations of the mission were soon succeeded by direful calamities.
Mr. Gladstone himself spoke of the consolations of old age; there is one consolation he did not mention.
But there was a priest who sat outside the door, waiting to offer the last consolations of religion to the men about to die.
The presence of Talleyrand, with whom he had quarrelled, was welcome to Mirabeau, who, though not a believer, did not wish it to be thought that he had rejected the consolations of religion.
Still, she told herself sternly, she'd accepted that fact months ago, and without the consolations God had granted her since.
Claude had theseconsolations as he watched the pair go down and mingle with the throng.
And he showed it so plainly, and was withal so conscious of the display, that he felt quite sure that Jack's ingenious consolations were not meant entirely for Jack.
XII Saint-Evremond to Ninon de l'Enclos Age Has Some Consolations It gives me a lively pleasure to see young people, handsome and expanding like flowers; fit to please, and able to sincerely affect an old heart like mine.
Explain," said Gaston; "I see with sorrow that you refuse the consolations of religion.
My father was obliged to console him, but to all hisconsolations and caresses he answered not.
Even the illiterate peasant will only endure lifelong toil under the stimulus of private ownership and with the consolations of religion; and the typical modern worker has neither the one nor the other.
No Church dominates the scenery of this new land, and offers in authoritative and convincing tones consolations hereafter for lives obscurely but faithfully lived.
Sweet is the sorrow produced by his word; for it gives us an aversion to all the consolations of time.
But the consolations of religion, in these trying circumstances, were neither 'few nor small.
Of five pastors only two remained; one of these was obliged to change his residence, and could only venture to administer the consolations of religion, or perform the functions of his ministry, under cover of the night.
He spurned the consolations of religion: he said heaven was as unjust as earth, as cruel as hell.
With these pious consolations Julia's pride and self-respect now co-operated.
And then, happier than most district visitors, she was not always obliged to look on helpless, or to confine her consolations to good words.
Blanche was due in great measure to the sinister prophecies of the accomplice to whom she had denied the last consolations of religion.
She was now reduced to the irritating consolations of Aunt Medea, who was a worthy person, undoubtedly, but her tears flowed quite as freely for the loss of a cat, as for the death of a relative.
Next to the consolations of divine grace, it is the most sovereign balm to the miseries of life, both in him who is the object of it, and in him who exercises it.
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