Rina Cliffe: A Village CharacterSociety for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1871 - 192 páginas |
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... dear lady had been alive she would never have consented to send you among foreigners , Cath'lics and such - like , to learn their tricks and ways . ' 99 " You are mistaken , Rina ; my father placed me under the care of an old and valued ...
... dear lady had been alive she would never have consented to send you among foreigners , Cath'lics and such - like , to learn their tricks and ways . ' 99 " You are mistaken , Rina ; my father placed me under the care of an old and valued ...
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... Dear Grandmother , I hope this finds you in good health , as it leaves us all in this country . ' 999 Linda repeated the important preface , and con- tinued— “ I've wished myself back again in Old England many a time , and sometimes I ...
... Dear Grandmother , I hope this finds you in good health , as it leaves us all in this country . ' 999 Linda repeated the important preface , and con- tinued— “ I've wished myself back again in Old England many a time , and sometimes I ...
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... moun- tain sheep who ventures to cross a slight pathway . Well , my dear , Rina Cliffe is all that you describe , and I am sorry for it , but the unhappiness and the ioneliness arise from the fact you have stated ; she 22 RINA CLIFFE .
... moun- tain sheep who ventures to cross a slight pathway . Well , my dear , Rina Cliffe is all that you describe , and I am sorry for it , but the unhappiness and the ioneliness arise from the fact you have stated ; she 22 RINA CLIFFE .
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... description again ; Rina's rugged disposition ' suggests to me that a little venturesome mountain sheep would lose some of its fleecy coat in trying to find a pathway across its dangerous surface . It seems to me , dear 24 RINA CLIFFE .
... description again ; Rina's rugged disposition ' suggests to me that a little venturesome mountain sheep would lose some of its fleecy coat in trying to find a pathway across its dangerous surface . It seems to me , dear 24 RINA CLIFFE .
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... dear child , that there is something to lose on your part , little to be gained on hers . " " Papa , I have also been thinking of Nigel's words , and that sometimes a very small thing will accomplish what a greater one cannot do . For ...
... dear child , that there is something to lose on your part , little to be gained on hers . " " Papa , I have also been thinking of Nigel's words , and that sometimes a very small thing will accomplish what a greater one cannot do . For ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
asked beautiful Bessie Vale Black Milly bright brother Nigel called child Christmas Christmas eve church Cliffe's comfort Conway's cottage cousin cousin Olive cross dare say dark dear door face fancy Farheath father feel gave give glad happy Hayford Hazelmere hear heard heart holly hope Jacket Joan Price Joyce Archer laid letter lichen Linda Conway Linda smiled Lisbeth listen look lych-gate mamma Martha Lloyd Martin Price merry mind Miss Linda Miss Percy mood morning mother never Nigel Gresley Oakley Olive Gresley Olive's once Owen Cliffe papa parish peace pleasant Poor Rina quiet quietly racter rector remarked Linda replied Linda replied Olive Rina Cliffe Rina's Robin seemed sing song Southern speak Squire Hardie stood suppose sure sweet tell temper thee thing thought took treasured turned Verina village voice window Winstanley wonder words
Passagens conhecidas
Página 49 - Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear.
Página 151 - And ye, beneath life's crushing load, Whose forms are bending low, Who toil along the climbing way, With painful steps and slow, — Look now, for glad and golden hours Come swiftly on the wing : O rest beside the weary road And hear the angels sing!
Página 139 - Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamour and evil-speaking be put away from you, with all malice ; and be ye kind one to another,, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
Página 68 - I may rest in thee, and fully pacify and quiet my heart in thee! " For thou, Lord, art the very true peace of heart and the perfect rest of the soul, and without thee all things be grievous and unquiet.
Página 28 - ... the Christianity we have been brought up in, and one hears no echoes of it in the sects and Churches of Christendom. In boyhood I used to listen to a favourite hymn of the camp-meetings in Virginia, which now sounds to my ear a chanted fairy-tale. Christ was born in Bethlehem (thrice repeated) And in a manger laid. The Jews crucified him, And nailed him to a tree. Joseph begged his body And laid it in a tomb. The third day he rose again To reign at God's right hand. And so on.
Página 45 - ... longs he for the light ! He counts the hours, that linger Heavy with clouds and rain, And a great weight of darkness Lies on his fevered brain : He hears the loud clock ticking, And the owl hoot afar, While glimmers the pale night-light, And fades the midnight star ; Till eastward in the Heaven He sees at last the sign — O'er the far purple mountain A single silver line. It broadens, and it deepens To a sea of red and gold, With clouds of rosy amber Around its glory rolled ; Till each pane...
Página 5 - Tis Hope that makes thee at my casement stand, 'Tis Faith that bids thee fly into my hand. Thou lookest in my face with eyes of cheer That win me in affliction not to weep ; A voice in thy mute sympathy I hear,
Página 45 - Lies on his fevered brain. He hears the loud clock ticking, And the owl hoot afar ; While glimmers the pale night-light, And fades the midnight star ; Till eastward in the Heaven He sees at last the sign, — O'er the far purple mountain A single silver line. It broadens and it deepens To a sea of red and gold, With clouds of rosy amber Around its glory rolled. Till each pane of his window Is silvered o'er and o'er, And lines of golden arrows Lie on the dusky floor. The sick soul lieth weary In the...
Página 135 - I hope this finds you well, as it leaves me, but very unhappy.
Página 108 - Ah, thou moon that shinest Argent clear above, All night long enlighten