Grantley Manor, Volume 1Baudry's European Library, 1847 - 315 pages |
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Page 164 - ... more things in heaven and earth than were dreamt of in their philosophy ; they consigned this hapless nonconformist to profound neglect.
Page 180 - Is there none, of all my halls have nurst, page, squire, or groom, one cup to bring of blessed water from the spring, to slake my dying thirst ? " 0 woman ! in our hours of ease, uncertain, coy, and hard to please, and variable as the shade by the light, quivering aspen made ; when pain and anguish wring the brow, a ministering angel thou...
Page 152 - Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced 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.
Page 36 - 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,...
Page 151 - First, a very excellent good-conceited thing ; after, a wonderful sweet air, with admirable rich words to it ; and then let her consider.
Page 234 - These things are terrible,' said Mr. Barlow after a long silence, ' but still they may be mere coincidences. Circumstantial evidence ig at once the strongest and weakest of proofs. You saw with your own eyes and heard with your own ears, and are therefore the better judge ; still By-the-by, you went to the registrar's office, of course ? ' ' No ; the woman did not indicate it ; they had only told her, it seems, that it was in the neighbourhood.
Page 36 - 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.
Page 186 - ... pale and sinking, was going to take her in his arms, when a heavy step, followed by other dismal sounds, was heard on the staircase, amidst the continued barking of the dog. " They are coming to fetch you. Oh God ! Oh God ! " cried Rosa, wringing her hands. " And have you nothing more to tell me ? " She fell on her knees with her face buried in her hands, and became almost senseless. " I have only to say, that I wish you to preserve these bulbs as a most precious treasure, and carefully to treat...
Page 96 - Her slender palms together prest, Heaving sometimes on her breast; Her face resigned to bliss or bale — Her face, oh call it fair not pale, And both blue eyes more bright than clear, Each about to have a tear.
Page 36 - 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.