Christian's MistakeDonnelley, Loyd, 1875 - 260 páginas |
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Página 189 - Forgive, me, LORD, for Thy dear SON, The ill that I this day have done ; That with the world, myself, and Thee, I, ere I sleep, at peace may be.
Página 98 - As much as in you lieth, live peaceably with all men." But she sometimes wondered, with a kind of sad satire, whether the same could ever, under any circumstances, be done with all women. Alas! not with these, or rather this woman, Aunt Maria being merely the adjective of that very determined substantive, Aunt Henrietta. She braced herself to the battle immediately. " Excuse me, Mrs. Grey ; but I can not see what right you have to question me, or I to answer.
Página 88 - Love in her eyes sits playing, And sheds delicious death : Love on her lips is straying, And warbling in her breath...
Página 46 - There is a deeper meaning in this text than we at first see. Of " these three," two concern ourselves ; the third concerns others. When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us the reason why. Christian went...
Página 166 - Judge not, that ye be not judged; condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned." But, for. the time being, Miss Gascoigne was puzzled. Her stern reproof, her patronising pity, were alike disarmed. Her mountain seemed crumbling to its original mole-hill. The heap of accusing evidence which she had accumulated, dwindled into the most ordinary and commonplace facts, at sight of Christian's innocent face and placid mien. Nothing could be more unlike a woman...
Página 194 - At last it had quite to be let go, and its substitute accepted — as we most of us have, more or less, to accept the will of Heaven instead of our will, and go on our way resignedly, nay, cheerfully, knowing that, whether we see it or not, all is well.
Página 176 - ... Dr. Grey's wife could receive, or give occasion to receive, a secret letter, a love-letter, from any man ; but when the effort was over she broke down. Convulsive sobs, one after the other, shook her, until she felt as if her very life were departing. And in the midst of this agony appeared — Miss Gascoigne. Aunt Henrietta had spent the whole night, except a brief space for sleeping, in thinking over and talking over her duties and her wrongs, the two being mixed up together in inextinguishable...
Página 53 - When ought a child to commence to dine with his parents ? As soon as he be old enough to sit up at the table, provided the father and mother either dine or lunch in the middle of the day. "I always prefer having children about me at meal-times. I think it makes them little gentlemen and gentlewomen in a manner that nothing else will.
Página 160 - ... in Byron's, indicating what may be called the Greek temperament — the nature of the old Attic race — sensuous not sensual ; pleasure-loving, passionate, and changeable, not intentionally vicious, but revelling in a sort of glorious enjoyment, intellectual and corporeal, to which everything else is sacrificed — in short, the heathen as opposed to the Christian type of manhood — a type which lasts as long as the body lasts, and the intellect ; when (continued).