...parting farewells were exchanged, when the sound of the last lingering footstep died upon her ear, and all was silent, she may be forgiven, if a keen...her home, was not her Canaan ; and ought she then to murmur, if in her pilgrimage through the desert, the fruits and flowers of Eden were denied to her....

...is a fearful thing." The horror of it shook him all his life through. As human existence was to him a state in which much was to be endured and little to be enjoyed, so the end of it was to be continually dreaded. He closed the series of " Idlers," a charming, and,...