North and South

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Harper & Bros., 1866 - 154 pages
 

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Page 55 - And the third Angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters.
Page 25 - And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven. So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.
Page 128 - But I belong to Teutonic blood ; it is little mingled in this part of England to what it is in others ; we retain much of their language ; we retain more of their spirit ; we do not look upon life as a time for enjoyment, but as a time for action and exertion. Our glory and our beauty arise out of our inward strength, which makes us victorious over material resistance, and over greater difficulties still.
Page 65 - She liked the exultation in the sense of power which these Milton men had. It might be rather rampant in its display, and savour of 'boasting ; but still they seemed to defy the old limits of possibility, in a kind of fine intoxication, caused by the recollection of what had been achieved, and what yet should be.
Page 25 - ... unparliamentary" smoke, and sufficiently accounting for the cloud which Margaret had taken to foretell rain. As they drove through the larger and wider streets, from the station to the hotel, they had to stop constantly; great loaded lorries blocked up the not over-wide thoroughfares.
Page 7 - And flowering all the year round, especially at Christmas — make your picture complete," said he. " No," replied Margaret, somewhat annoyed, " I am not making a picture. I am trying to describe Helstone as it really is. You should not have said that." " I am penitent," he answered. " Only it really sounded like a village in a tale rather than in real life." " And so it is," replied Margaret eagerly. " All the other places in England that I have seen seem so hard and prosaiclooking, after the New...
Page 118 - They labor on from day to day in the great solitude of steaming fields — never speaking or lifting up their poor, bent, downcast heads. The hard spade-work robs their brain of life ; the sameness of their toil deadens their imagination; they don't care to meet to talk over thoughts and speculations, even of the weakest, wildest kind, after their work is done ; they go home brutishly tired, poor creatures! caring for nothing but food and rest.

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