The Head of the FamilyMacmillan, 1883 - 502 páginas |
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Ansted's answered Ninian Armadale asked beautiful better Chester Terrace child cousin Rachel creature cried Tinie dear door Edinburgh Edmund elder brother eyes face fancy father fear feel felt Gareloch girl glad Gowans grave hand happy head heard heart Heaven Helensburgh Hope Ansted Hope's husband Jane Sedley John Forsyth Kenneth knew Lady Ulverston lassie laughed Lindsay Lindsay's listened little Walter marriage married mind Miss Ansted Miss Græme Miss Reay mother Musselburgh never night Ninian Græme Ninian looked Ninian saw Ninian thought once passion paused perhaps poor Professor quiet Rachel Armstrong rose round scarcely seemed sighed silent sister sitting smile soul speak spoke stood strange sure sweet talk tell tenderness thing Tinie's to-night told took trouble turned Ulver utter voice walked watching whispered wife wish woman word young
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Página 119 - Though at times her spirit sank ; Shaped her heart with woman's meekness To all duties of her rank : And a gentle consort made he, And her gentle mind was such That she grew a noble lady, And the people loved her much.
Página 75 - But he that ruleth the mad winds can know. If ye do drive the love out of my soul, That is its motion, being, and its life, There'll be a conflict strange and horrible, Among all fearful and ill-visaged fiends, For the blank void ; and their mad revel there Will make me — oh, I know not what — hate thee ! Oh, no ! — I could not hate thee, Fazio...
Página 501 - The only way is to pass through the ocean of affliction, solemnly, slowly, with humility and faith — as the Israelites passed through the sea. Then its very waves of misery will divide and become to us a wall on the right side and on the left, until the gulf narrows and narrows before our eyes, and we land safe on the opposite shore.
Página 75 - The fondest are most phrenetic : where the fire Burneth intensest, there the inmate pale Doth dread the broad and beaconing conflagration. If that ye cast us to the winds, the winds Will give us their unruly restless nature ; We whirl and whirl ; and where we settle, Fazio, But he that ruleth the...
Página 393 - Heay on her marriage — and then the visit terminated. Tinie waited until she had got outside the gate and then poured out her feelings upon her silent brother. " Well, she keeps her secrets to herself, poor thing ! and perhaps it is all the better. But I can see as far through a stone wall as most people...
Página 154 - He is one of those who can cut off a right arm, and pluck out a right eye, and so enter maimed into heaven. He is one who can give up dreaming, and go to his daily realities — who can smother down his heart, its love or woe, and take to the hard work of his hand — who defies fate, and if he must die, dies fighting to the last. His bearing under the pangs of unreturned...
Página 175 - So will it always be to the end of time. It is a lesson worth learning by those young creatures who seek to allure by their accomplishments, or dazzle with their wit, that though he may admire, no man ever loves a woman for these things.
Página 382 - Many a poet has sung laments over departed youth ; did any ever sing, or chant — for it would be like a psalm — the peace, the joy, the comfort of growing old ; of knowing passions dead, temptations conquered, experience won, individual interests become universal, and vain fantastic hopes merged into simple strong - builded faith, — faith which makes of death its foundation stone, and has for its summit Eternity? The "Hymn to Old Age" would be one not unworthy of a great poet.
Página 175 - That is why we so often see a man of high genius or intellectual power pass by the De Staels and the Corinnes, to take into his bosom some wayside flower who has nothing on earth to make her worthy him, except that she is, what so few of your " female celebrities