Stoddard, Elizabeth Drew Barstow, 1823-1902 [1867], Temple House: a novel (G. W. Carleton & Co., New York) [word count] [eaf697T].
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Front matter
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Preliminaries
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Hic Fructus Virtutis; Clifton Waller Barrett
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FE 1000
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Foley, p. 273
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POPULAR NOVELS.
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BY MRS. ELIZABETH STODDARD.
All published uniform with this volume, and sent by
mail, free o postage, on receipt of price
by the Publishers.
| I.—THE MORGESONS, |
Price $1.50 |
| II.—TWO MEN, |
Price $1.50 |
| III.—TEMPLE HOUSE, |
Price $1.75 |
“Mrs. Stoddard's novels are unmistakable works of genius,
and evince powers that may be employed in the production
of works which will take rank with
the novels of the masters of fiction
now wielding their pens
in Great Britain.”
G. W. CARLETON & CO., Publishers,
New York.
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Title Page
TEMPLE HOUSE.
A Novel.
BY ELIZABETH STODDARD,
AUTHOR OF
“THE MORGESONS,” “TWO MEN,” ETC.
NEW YORK:
G. W. Carleton & Co., Publishers.
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Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1867, by
G. W. CARLETON & CO.,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern
District of New York.
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Dedication
To
S. R. G.
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ARTIST.
To me, imprisoned, by the hand of art
You bring the clouded mountains, my desire,
The tranquil river, and the unquiet sea,
The far, vast morning, and the crimson eve,
And silent days, that brood among thick leaves,
When, in the afternoon, the summer sun
Is sleeping in the hazy, yellow west;
And my soul's atmosphere grows like the scene.
For though acquainted still with misery,
I dream that all the boundaries of my days
Contain the unknown, veilèd happiness.
Therefore, my friend, to show my gratitude,
I offer you these pictures, drawn from thought,
With all the art I have—in black and white.
E. D. B. S.
New York, May 5th, 1867.
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Preface
The sunset is original every evening, though for thousands of years it has
built out of the same light and vapor its visionary cities with domes and pinnacles,
and its delectable mountains, which night shall utterly abase and
destroy.
—J. R. Lowell.
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Nevertheless, I feel most sensibly the infinite distance between Life and
Reasoning.
—Schiller.
Philosophy must first be seized as feeling, else is it empty straw which men
are threshing.
—Bettine Von Arnim.
It is this formless idea of something at hand that keeps men and women
striving to tear from the bosom of the world the secret of their own hopes.
—
Ibid.
The dust of many strange desires
Lies deep between us.
—A. C. Swinburne.
Naturalists more frequently get their knowledge by separation and division
than by union and combination—more through death than life.
—Goethe.
Mind cannot create—it can only perceive.
—Leigh Hunt.
The only two books of paramount authority with me are the Book of Nature,
and the heart of its reader.
—Leigh Hunt.
Stoddard, Elizabeth Drew Barstow, 1823-1902 [1867], Temple House: a novel (G. W. Carleton & Co., New York) [word count] [eaf697T].
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