But Margaret went less abroad, among machinery and men; saw less of power in its public effect, and, as it happened, she was thrown with one or two of those who, in all measures affecting masses of pe...
A child should be brought up with its parents, if it is to think them infallible when it grows up.But though it may know that there must be faults, replied Molly, it ought to cover them over and try t...
¿Por que le preocupaba lo que él pensara, a pesar de su orgullo, a pesar de sí misma?
Thou must believe that God will turn thy very silence, suspension, deprivation, and laying aside, to His glory, and the advancement of the Gospel's interest. When God will not use thee in one kind, ye...
My drawers, to string myself up, as it were; and I was so taken up with what I was about that I was quite startled when I heard the rain beating against the window-panes.
They did not speak much more, but thridded their way through many a bosky dell, whose soft green influence could not charm away the shock and the pain in Margaret's heart, caused by the recital of suc...
Sometimes when I've thought o' my life, and the little pleasure I've had in it, I've believed that, maybe, I was one of those doomed to die by the falling of a star from heaven.
Some wishes crossed my mind and dimly cheered it, And one or two poor melancholy pleasures, Each in the pale unwarming light of hope, Silvering its flimsy wing, flew silent by— Moths in the moonbeam!'...
Pray, speak, sir; to see your face, and not be able to read it, gives me a worse dread than I trust any words of yours will justify.
Nonsense, John. One would think you were made of money.''Not quite, yet.
It was one of Mrs. Hale's fitful days, when everything was a difficulty and a hardship; and Mr Lennox's appearance took this shape, although secretly she felt complimented by his thinking it worthwhil...
He might despise her, but the woman whom he had once loved should be kept from shame; and
But though silver and gold he had none, he gave heart-service and love—works of far more value.
But ne'er mind. We're but where we was; and I'll break stones on th' road afore I let these little uns clem.
But a wise parent humours the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and adviser when his absolute rule shall cease.
All sorts of thoughts cross one's mind—it depends upon whether one gives them harbour and encouragement
Still to have loved her without return would have lifted you higher than all those, be they who they may, that have ever known her to love.
Song of the miller who lived by the river Dee:— 'I care for nobody—Nobody cares for me.
As if unwilling to awaken the unused echoes. At
And as I said before, though I should na' say it, I'm a good hand, measter, and a steady man—specially when I can keep fro' drink; and that