Evelyn Marston, by the author of 'Emilia Wyndham'. |
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 174 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Página 199 - 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...
Página 311 - This novel Is worthy of the author's reputation. The interest of the story is powerfully kept up, and there is much truthful and discriminating depicting of character."— Literary Gazette. CASTLE AVON. By the Author of "EMILIA WYNDHAM.
Página 116 - 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.
Página 32 - ... beginning Her romp upon my knee. Farewell to woodlands mossy, And violets of the glade, To daisies white and glossy, And warblers of the shade. Nor tell me of the lily, Ye poets of the flowers, Nor rose, while I have Milly To beautify my hours. ON SEEING CHARLIE AT PLAY. • ERE thy locks of golden light Change to winter's snowy white, And old Care has passed his plough O'er the sunshine of thy brow ; Ere a troop of sorrows march O'er thy pretty eyebrows...
Página 312 - The concluding series of passages in the ' Life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland' is, to our thinking, superior to the beginning ; and this we take to be about the most satisfactory compliment we can pay the authoress. There is a vein of simple flood sense and pious feeling running throughout, for which no reader can fai to be the better."— Athenmum.
Página 233 - 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.
Página 174 - That he who is faithful in that which is least, will be faithful in that which is much.
Página 159 - 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.
Página 311 - In search of a fascinating novel to reid it for themselves. They will find it well worth their while. There are a freshness and originality about It quite charming, and there is a certain nobleness In the treatment both of sentiment and Incident which is not often found."— Athenaeum.