John Drayton; being a history of the early life and development of a Liverpool engineer [by M.O. Oliphant]. |
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Seite 1 - I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar stairs That slope through darkness up to God. "I stretch lame hands of faith and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope.
Seite 242 - She looked down to blush, and she looked up to sigh, With a smile on her lip, and a tear in her eye.
Seite 36 - Therewith she held out her hand to him, and he took it and kissed it ; and she went to her chamber-aloft at the lower end of the hall. And when she was gone, once more he had a deeming of her that she was of the kindred of the Gods. At her departure him-seemed that the hall grew dull and small and smoky, and the night seemed long to him and doubtful the coming...
Seite 252 - Bible; for it's what a man is, and not what he has, that makes him a gentleman; and what I mean is a Godfearing, pure man, thinking as a man should, talking as a man should, minding other people as a man should—a man that has been redeemed.
Seite 269 - THE END. LONDON: Printed by Schulze and Co., 13, Poland Street. i...
Seite 266 - And by and bye, as the night draws on, the little ones kneel down at their mother's knee, and say sweet childish prayers— prayers wherein one feels it is good to be remembered, by name as they remember their friends; and then, so watched and tended, that the mother's guardian presence goes with them into their dreams among the angels, they go to sleep fearlessly, with their little arms folded, as if still for prayer.
Seite 265 - Johnnie crows and mounts up leaning on the grandmother's shoulder, and stretching out his plump arms to be noticed too, and the mother smiles, and says John spoils the children, as she places the teapot on the tray, and sits down in her own presiding place.
Seite 265 - John spoils the children, as she places the teapot on the tray, and sits down in her own presiding place. And now they have all gathered about the table. Jane on a high chair by her mother's side; Rachel...