Adam Bede, Volume 2

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Harper & Brothers, 1859 - Carpenters - 496 pages
 

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Page 352 - Dark and cheerless is the morn, Unaccompanied by thee ; Joyless is the day's return Till thy mercy's beams I see, Till they inward light impart, Glad my eyes and warm my heart.
Page 138 - And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all. And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him, sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more.
Page 20 - But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife. 34 There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
Page 95 - And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether God will be gracious to me, that the child may live? But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
Page v - AWAKE, my soul, and with the sun Thy daily stage of duty run ; Shake off dull sloth, and joyful rise To pay thy morning sacrifice.
Page 20 - I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
Page 52 - ... what shall we eat, and what shall we drink, and wherewithal shall we be clothed...
Page 156 - Paint us an angel, if you can, with a floating violet robe, and a face paled by the celestial light ; paint us yet oftener a Madonna, turning her mild face upward, and opening her arms to welcome the divine glory; but do not impose on us any aesthetic rules which shall banish from the region of Art those old women scraping carrots with their work-worn hands...
Page 20 - And Jacob served seven years for Rachel ; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
Page 55 - Yes, the house must be inhabited, and we will see by whom, for imagination is a licensed trespasser ; it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity. Put your face to one of the glass panes in the right-hand window ; what do you see...

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