Everley [by miss Cornish].1855 |
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... pleasant - looking gentleman , with hair slightly tinged with grey , but with a firm , erect figure , seated on one side of the fireplace , absorbed in the contents of the newspaper he was reading . Opposite to him , reclining on a sofa ...
... pleasant - looking gentleman , with hair slightly tinged with grey , but with a firm , erect figure , seated on one side of the fireplace , absorbed in the contents of the newspaper he was reading . Opposite to him , reclining on a sofa ...
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... pleasant to turn to Mary's softer and more amiable countenance , although she possessed no just pretensions to beauty . Her hair lighter , and her features less regular than Augusta's , and her complexion less clear and brilliant , but ...
... pleasant to turn to Mary's softer and more amiable countenance , although she possessed no just pretensions to beauty . Her hair lighter , and her features less regular than Augusta's , and her complexion less clear and brilliant , but ...
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... pleasant change it would have seemed ; and when with the remembrance of Georgina a sense of loneliness and uncongeniality stole over her , she hastily repelled it and carried on a lively conversation with her sisters , and en- deavoured ...
... pleasant change it would have seemed ; and when with the remembrance of Georgina a sense of loneliness and uncongeniality stole over her , she hastily repelled it and carried on a lively conversation with her sisters , and en- deavoured ...
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... pleasant one . The sight of the old , familiar streets and houses , and the grey church tower with the churchyard and lych- gate filled Evelyn's mind with old and pleasant memories . The faces she remembered , and the deep 24 EVERLEY .
... pleasant one . The sight of the old , familiar streets and houses , and the grey church tower with the churchyard and lych- gate filled Evelyn's mind with old and pleasant memories . The faces she remembered , and the deep 24 EVERLEY .
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... pleasant to feel that they loved and valued her , and that she was of use to them , and not a nonentity in her home . It was pleasant to hear them say that the evenings were much more cheerful than they had been before her return , and ...
... pleasant to feel that they loved and valued her , and that she was of use to them , and not a nonentity in her home . It was pleasant to hear them say that the evenings were much more cheerful than they had been before her return , and ...
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Popular passages
Page 216 - Let us do our work as well, Both the unseen and the seen ; Make the house, where Gods may dwell, Beautiful, entire, and clean. Else our lives are incomplete, Standing in these walls of Time, Broken stairways, where the feet Stumble as they seek to climb. Build to-day, then, strong and sure, With a firm and ample base ; And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place.
Page 474 - No one is so accursed by fate, No one so utterly desolate, But some heart, though unknown / Responds unto his own.
Page 268 - He needs must think of her once more, How in the grave she lies; And with his hard, rough hand he wipes A tear out of his eyes.
Page 336 - A servant with this clause makes drudgery divine; who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, makes that and the action fine.
Page 492 - Sweet is the smile of home ; the mutual look When hearts are of each other sure ; Sweet all the joys that crowd the household nook, The haunt of all affections pure...
Page 378 - If you have no power of giving: An arm of aid to the weak, A friendly hand to the friendless, Kind words, so short to speak, But whose echo is endless: The world is wide, — these things are small, They may be nothing, but they are All.
Page 455 - Abide with me from morn till eve, For without Thee I cannot live ; Abide with me when night is nigh, For without Thee I dare not die.
Page 11 - Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, Lead thou me on ! The night is dark and I am far from home; Lead thou me on ! Keep thou my feet; I do not ask to see The distant scene; one step enough for me.