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... Sarah Green , two poor and hard - working peasants , dwelt , with a numerous family of small children . Poor as they were , they had won the general respect of the neighborhood , from the un- complaining firmness with which they bore ...
... Sarah Green , two poor and hard - working peasants , dwelt , with a numerous family of small children . Poor as they were , they had won the general respect of the neighborhood , from the un- complaining firmness with which they bore ...
Page 275
... Sarah Green set forward in the forenoon of a day fated to be their last on earth . The sale was to take place in Langdale Head ; to which , from their own cottage in Easedale , it was possible in daylight , and supposing no mist upon ...
... Sarah Green set forward in the forenoon of a day fated to be their last on earth . The sale was to take place in Langdale Head ; to which , from their own cottage in Easedale , it was possible in daylight , and supposing no mist upon ...
Page 276
... Sarah Green might consider her duty to be the stronger toward the child of her " misfortune . " And she probably had another reason for her anxiety — as some words dropped by her on this evening led people to presume - in her ...
... Sarah Green might consider her duty to be the stronger toward the child of her " misfortune . " And she probably had another reason for her anxiety — as some words dropped by her on this evening led people to presume - in her ...
Page 277
... Sarah Green , were , that , upon their intention being understood to re- trace their morning path and to attempt the perilous task of dropping down into Easedale from the moun- tains above Langdale Head , a sound of remonstrance arose ...
... Sarah Green , were , that , upon their intention being understood to re- trace their morning path and to attempt the perilous task of dropping down into Easedale from the moun- tains above Langdale Head , a sound of remonstrance arose ...
Page 278
... Sarah Green ; Wept for that pair's unhappy fate , Whose graves may here be seen . By night upon these stormy fells , Did wife and husband roam ; Six little ones at home had left , And could not find that home . For any dwelling - place ...
... Sarah Green ; Wept for that pair's unhappy fate , Whose graves may here be seen . By night upon these stormy fells , Did wife and husband roam ; Six little ones at home had left , And could not find that home . For any dwelling - place ...
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Page 133 - That my pains had vanished, was now a trifle in my eyes : — this negative effect was swallowed up in the immensity of those positive effects which had opened before me — in the abyss of divine enjoyment thus suddenly revealed. Here was a panacea — a ^UMO-/ nviyStt for all human woes: here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages...
Page 312 - When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things...
Page 161 - She, to my knowledge, sate all last summer by the bedside of the blind beggar, him that so often and so gladly I talked with, whose pious daughter, eight years old, with the sunny countenance, resisted the temptations of play and village mirth to travel all day long on dusty roads with her afflicted father.
Page 151 - I seemed every night to descend, not metaphorically, but literally to descend, into chasms and sunless abysses, depths below depths, from which it seemed hopeless that I could ever reascend. Nor did I, by waking, feel that I had reascended.
Page 424 - Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness. 'Think you, 'mid all this mighty sum Of things for ever speaking, That nothing of itself will come, But we must still be seeking? ' — Then ask not wherefore, here, alone, Conversing as I may, I sit upon this old grey stone, And dream my time away.
Page 165 - Lo! here is he, whom in childhood I dedicated to my altars. This is he that once I made my darling. Him I led astray, him I beguiled, and from heaven I stole away his young heart to mine. Through me did he become idolatrous; and through me it was, by languishing desires, that he worshipped the worm, and prayed to the wormy grave. Holy was the grave to him; lovely was its darkness; saintly its corruption.
Page 175 - From lightning and tempest; from plague, pestilence, and famine ; from battle and murder, and from sudden death, Good Lord, deliver us.
Page 151 - The sense of space, and in the end the sense of time, were both powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, &c., were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity.
Page 162 - By the power of the keys it is that Our Lady of Tears glides a ghostly intruder into the chambers of sleepless men, sleepless women, sleepless children, from Ganges to the Nile, from Nile to Mississippi. And her, because she is the first-born of her house, and has the widest empire, let us honour with the title of
Page 157 - LEVANA AND OUR LADIES OF SORROW OFTENTIMES at Oxford I saw Levana in my dreams. I knew her by her Roman symbols. Who is Levana? Reader, that do not pretend to have leisure for very much scholarship, you will not be angry with me for telling you. Levana was the Roman goddess that performed for the newborn infant the earliest office of ennobling kindness...