Grantley Manor : a Tale, Band 1Tauchnitz, 1847 - 605 Seiten |
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Anne Neville answered arrival asked beauty bright brow calm cheek child cold Colonel Leslie colour countenance cried Dalton dark daughter dear deep door drawing-room earnest Edmund Neville emotion English expression eyes face fancy Father Francesco feel forlorn hope garet gazed Genoa gentle girl glance Grantley Manor hand happiness head heard heart Heaven Henry Leslie Heron Castle hope hour Il est là impatience instant Italian Italy kissed laugh Leonardo Leslie's lips looked low voice Lucy manner Margaret felt marriage marry Maud mind Miss Ginevra Miss Leslie myste never Neville's once opened pale passion pathy pause perhaps replied secret seemed shook side silence sister smile sort soul speak spirit spoke strange talk TAUCHNITZ tears tell tence Thornton thought told tone took trembled turned uncon uttered Verona walked Walter Sydney Warren watched whispered wish words young
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Seite 164 - Was praying at the old oak tree. Amid the jagged shadows Of mossy leafless boughs, Kneeling in the moonlight, To make her gentle vows...
Seite 301 - ... more things in heaven and earth than were dreamt of in their philosophy ; they consigned this hapless nonconformist to profound neglect.
Seite 274 - Hark, hark ! the lark at heaven's gate sings. And Phoebus gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chalic'd flowers that lies ; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes : With every thing that pretty is, My lady sweet arise ; Arise, arise ! Clo.
Seite 35 - Pure religion and undefiled before God, the Father, is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world.
Seite 58 - What a strange power there is in silence! How many resolutions are formed — how many sublime conquests effected — during that pause when the lips are closed, and the soul secretly feels the eye of her Maker upon her ! When some of those cutting, sharp, blighting words have been spoken, which send the hot indignant blood to the face and head, if those to whom they are addressed keep silence, look on with awe, for a mighty work is going on within them, and the spirit of evil, or their guardian-angel,...
Seite 10 - ... than themselves, and carry to them a share of their own scanty meal. Mothers who toil all day, and nurse at night sickly and peevish children. Men, who with the racking cough of consumption, and the deadly languor of disease upon them, work on, and strive and struggle and toil, till life gives wav.
Seite 59 - They are the strong ones of the earth — the mighty food for good or evil — those who know how to keep silence when it is a pain and a grief to them ; those who give time to their own souls to wax strong against temptation, or to the powers of wrath to stamp upon them their withering passage.
Seite 58 - SILENCE man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint.
Seite 144 - Maud seated on a low stool opposite to them, with her face resting on her hands and her elbows on her knees.
Seite 228 - I see," said Margaret^ thoughtfully; "that accounts for it all." The oft- repeated slander had been uttered; the falsehood which the lives of a thousand saints have disproved, — which the voice of the preacher, the pen of the learned, the experience of millions, and miracles of grace, and prodigies of penitence, daily contradict, — had been brought to bear, and Margaret, sighing deeply, carried away with her, as that conversation ended, an unfavourable impression of her sister's character, and...