Evelyn Marston, Band 3Hurst and Blackett, 1856 |
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Seite 163 - Tis a very good world that we live in, To lend, or to spend, or to give in; But to beg, or to borrow, or get a man's own, Tis the very worst world, sir, that ever was known.
Seite 178 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Seite 203 - WiTH blackest moss the flower-plots Were thickly crusted, one and all: The rusted nails fell from the knots That held the pear to the gable-wall. The broken sheds look'd sad and strange: Unlifted was the clinking latch; Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange. She only said, ' My life is dreary, He cometh not...
Seite 118 - So let the change which comes be free To ingroove itself with that which flies, And work, a joint of state, that plies Its office, moved with sympathy.
Seite 80 - I long unjustly regarded as my only child, but who has taken care, hy her conduct, to prove to me what is the reward of injustice. ".With respect to the settlement of which you speak, and the inquiring about which, though not acknowledged, is evidently the sole reason of your writing at all, the only thing I can say is, that no such settlement is, so far as I know, in existence. It is for you, or your trustees, to produce it, which, when you or they are able to do, I shall be happy to assist, as...
Seite 237 - SOLEMNLY, mournfully, Dealing its dole, The Curfew Bell Is beginning to toll. Cover the embers, And put out the light ; Toil comes with the morning, And rest with the night. Dark grow the windows, And quenched is the fire ; Sound fades into silence, — All footsteps retire. No voice in the chambers, No sound in the hall ! Sleep and oblivion Reign over all ! II.
Seite 178 - ... such a friend. I remember hearing one thing Anne Duglas said, when Evelyn was complaining of the impossibility of living up to her own idea of duty. She told her that she lived too much in generals, and forgot the day of small things, She bade her remember what the Divine Master himself had said, " That he who is faithful in that which is least, will be faithful in that which is much.