The way of the world, and other stories1866 |
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The Way of the World: And Other Stories (1866) <span dir=ltr>Anna Maria Hall</span> لا تتوفر معاينة - 2009 |
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الصفحة 113 - Miss Lucy, are you ill ? but perhaps it is only joy." Lucy made no reply. She rushed from the house, across the lawn into the park, until she sank down, from fatigue, upon a bank ; at last she covered her face with her hands, and burst into tears. She continued weeping for some time, until a kind hand pressed her shoulder, and, looking up, she saw her father standing by her side.
الصفحة 49 - free days," when it was delightful to see " the people" partaking of the full banquet they were permitted to enjoy, one man was heard to say to another, " Won't I buy a History of England, and know the rights of them all!" An old woman stood opposite Paton's " Christ bearing his Cross " until tears rolled down her cheeks : " I often read about it!" she exclaimed; "but I never thought I should see it!" And they tell of a noted thief, who, impressed by a picture of Judas returning the thirty pieces...
الصفحة 48 - Prayer in the Desert!" How impossible not to sympathize with those brave wild men in their act of prostration ! Although "No curfew tolls the knell of parting day...
الصفحة 49 - Wood," that she applied herself at once to the alphabet, and never rested until she was able to read the ballad. These are only items of the good effected by acquaintance with pictures — simple incidents; but the whole current of human feeling may be changed by the presence of a fine high-toned work of art.
الصفحة 81 - The tear, down Childhood's cheek that flows, Is like the dew-drop on the rose ; When next the summer breeze comes by, And waves the bush, the flower is dry.