 In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth...  George Eliot - Pagina 181de Mathilde Blind - 1883 - 290 paginiVizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1861 - 304 pagini
...purpose to the earnings, drawing his hope and joy continually onward beyond the money. In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand,...more backward; and the hand may be a little child's. CHAPTER XV. THERE was one person, as you will believe, who watched with keener though more hidden interest... | |
 | 1861 - 838 pagini
...plain." A beautiful paragraph may give the spirit and intention of the whole book : — " In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand...backward ; and the hand may be a little child's." POEMS, Sacred and Secular. Bv the Kev. William Crossvrell, DD Edited, with a Memoir, by A. Cleveland... | |
 | George Eliot - 1861 - 398 pagini
...purpose to the earnings, drawing his hope and joy continually onward beyond the money. In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand...more backward ; and the hand may be a little child's. CHAPTER XV. THERE was one person, as you will believe, who watched with keener though more hidden interest... | |
 | 1897 - 678 pagini
...members are without any knowledge of the truth expressed so beautifully by George Eliot: "In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the citj' of destruction. We see no whitewinged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction;... | |
 | George Eliot - 1864 - 300 pagini
...purpose to the earnings, drawing his hope and joy continually onward beyond the money. In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of 20 destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction:... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1873 - 766 pagini
...then we encounter beautiful and poetic ideas. This, for instance, is admirably put : " In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand...backward ; and the hand may be a little child's." Such is the story of the weaver of Raveloe ; a little child is to lead him back again to the faith... | |
 | George Eliot, Alexander Main - 1873 - 444 pagini
...PART FOURTH. SAYINGS FROM 'SILAS MARNER.' SILAS MARKER. George Eliot (in propria persona). IN old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand...more backward ; and the hand may be a little child's. The gods of the hearth exist for us still ; and let all new faith be tolerant of that fetishism, lest... | |
 | 1873 - 778 pagini
...then we encounter beautiful and poetic ideas. This, for instance, is admirably put : " In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand...backward ; and the hand may be a little child's." Such is the story of the weaver of Raveloe ; a little child is to lead him back again to the faith... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - 1920 - 596 pagini
...key-note of the story, telling how a child may flood with light an old man's darkened hopes. "In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand...is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently toward a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child's."... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 874 pagini
...purpose to the earnings, drawing his hope and joy continually onward beyond the money. In old days lese singular and unexpected. On observing a company...reapers, in a field bj the way-side, taking their br white winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction : a hand i¿ put into... | |
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