Grantley Manor: A Tale

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Baudry's European Library, 1847 - Religious fiction - 310 pages
 

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Page 164 - ... more things in Heaven and Earth than were dreamt of in her philosophy.
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 24 - Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
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 everything that pretty bin : My lady sweet, arise! Arise! arise!
Page 36 - 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, is very near to them in that hour.
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 is...
Page 278 - The idea had never even occurred to her, that it was possible to visit the poor in the spirit of harsh dictation and arrogant superiority, which at one time seemed prevalent among us, as if their poverty gave us, in itself, a right to invade their houses, to examine into their concerns, and to comment and animadvert on their conduct in a manner which we would not ourselves endure from our best friends. It is long before we practically learn, though many among us are learning it by slow degrees, that...
Page 13 - And when was that ?" asked Margaret somewhat captiously, for it must be confessed that her temper was a little ruffled that day. " When they went to school, my dear, I always said to my boys, ' Now, my dears, I have done with you; I have nothing more to say to you.
Page 234 - ... shoulders. You are grown so very flighty, Old Walter, that it is difficult to keep up with you, both literally and figuratively. You take a crotchet into your head, and fly off to Paris like a lover in a novel. To think of my having to scold you for rashness, and precipitancy, and thoughtlessness ! It is rather pleasant to turn the tables upon you. I do not know what you saw with your own eyes and heard with your own ears...
Page 36 - Hell, and an item has been scored in the book which the day of judgment shall see opened. They are the strong ones of the earth, the mighty for good or for 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 soul, to wax strong against temptation; or to the powers of wrath, to stamp upon her the mark of their withering passage.

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