My Novel: Or, Varieties in English Life, Volume 1Harper, 1852 - 412 pages |
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Page 52 - Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
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Page 92 - ... of your life ; it is the struggle between the new desires knowledge excites, and that sense of poverty, which those desires convert either into hope and emulation, or into envy and despair. I grant that it is an up-hill work that lies before you ; but don't you think it is always easier to climb a mountain than it is /to level it ? These books...
Page 91 - Eclogues as a faithful picture of the ordinary pains and pleasures of the peasants who tend our sheep. Read them as you would read poets, and they are delightful. But attempt to shape the world according to the poetry, and fit yourself for a madhouse. The farther off the age is from the, realization of such projects, the more these poor philosophers have indulged them.
Page 94 - We call the large majority of human lives obscure. Presumptuous that we are ! How know we what lives a single thought retained from the dust of nameless graves may have lighted to renown ? CHAPTER XI.
Page 53 - He replied also to them who asked, 'Who then can be saved?' 'The things which are impossible with men are possible with God,' that is, man left to his own temptations would fail; but, strengthened by God, he shall be saved.
Page 309 - Audley's was a strong nature ; but, alas ! in strong natures, if resistance to temptation is of granite, so the passions that they admit are of fire. Trite is the remark, that the destinies of our lives often date from the impulses of unguarded moments. It was so with this man, to an ordinary eye so cautious and so deliberate. Harley one day came to him in great grief ; he had heard that Nora was ill : he implored Audley to go once more and ascertain.
Page 145 - ... in my face. Well, sir, I had heard that there is no better bait for a perch than a perch's eye. I adjusted that eye on the hook, and dropped in the line gently. The water was unusually clear ; in two minutes, I saw that perch return. He approached the hook; he...
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