Adam Bede, Volume 2

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Estes and Lauriat, 1893

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Página 167 - 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.
Página 167 - Christ, the true, the only Light, Sun of Righteousness, arise, Triumph o'er the shades of night : Day-spring from on high, be near ; Day-star, in my heart appear.
Página 306 - Lisbeth's rheumatism had forced her to give up her old habits of dilettante scouring and polishing. When the kitchen was to her mind, Dinah went into the new room, where Adam had been writing the night before, to see what sweeping and dusting were needed there. She opened the window and let in the fresh morning air, and the smell of the sweetbrier, and the bright lowslanting rays of the early sun, which made a glory about her pale face and pale auburn hair as she held the long brush, and swept, singing...
Página 355 - ... em by the tail. I can count a stocking-top while a man's getting's tongue ready ; an' when he outs wi' his speech at last, there's little broth to be made on't.
Página 213 - There is no sort of wrong deed of which a man can bear the punishment alone ; you can't isolate yourself, and say that the evil which is in you shall not spread. Men's lives are as thoroughly blended with each other as the air they breathe ; evil spreads as necessarily as disease.
Página 103 - The fact is, Poyser," said the Squire, ignoring Mrs Poyser's theory of worldly prosperity, " there is too much dairy land, and too little plough land, on the Chase Farm, to suit Thurle's purpose— indeed, he will only take the farm on condition of some change in it : his wife, it appears, is not a clever dairy-woman, like yours. Now, the plan I'm thinking of is to effect a little exchange.
Página 59 - Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds, and until we know what has been or will be the peculiar combination of outward with inward facts, which constitutes a man's critical actions, it will be better not to think ourselves wise about his character. There is a terrible coercion in our deeds, which may first turn the honest man into a deceiver and then reconcile him to the change, for this reason - that the second wrong presents itself to him in the guise of the only practicable...
Página 337 - Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them : it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in. Even idleness is eager now, — eager for amusement ; prone to excursion- trains, art-museums, periodical literature, and exciting novels ; prone even to scientific theorizing, and cursory peeps through microscopes.
Página 101 - I never sit in easy-chairs," said the old gentleman, seating himself on a small chair near the door. "Do you know, Mrs. Poyser - sit down, pray, both of you - I've been far from contented, for some time, with Mrs. Satchell's dairy management. I think she has not a good method, as you have.
Página 216 - ... light thing that men should suffer ; as if all that he had himself endured and called sorrow before, was only a moment's stroke that had never left a bruise. Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity. "O God...

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