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Aaron Adam Bede Batherley Bryce called Cass's child church cottage Crackenthorp dance dark dear doctor Dolly Dolly's door Dunsey Dunstan Edward Dowden Eppie Eppie's everything eyes F. W. H. Myers face farrier father feel felt folks George Eliot Godfrey Cass Godfrey's gold gone hand head heart horse husband keep Kimble knew Lammeter's landlord Lantern Yard live look loom Macey married Master Marner mind Miss Gunns Miss Nancy morning mother Nancy Lammeter Nancy's neighbors never night Osgood parlor perhaps pillion poor pretty Priscilla Rainbow Raveloe Red House round seemed sense Silas Marner Silas's smiling speak Squire Cass Squire's Stone-pits story strange sure talk tell there's things thought tinder-box tion tone Tookey turned village voice walked weaver weaving wife Wildfire Winthrop wish woman words young
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Page xvi - This is life to come, Which martyred men have made more glorious For us who strive to follow. May I reach That purest heaven, be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony, Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, Beget the smiles that have no cruelty, Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, And in diffusion ever more intense. So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.
Page xvi - MAY I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence : live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self. In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge man's search To vaster issues.
Page xvii - But I hope you will not find it at all a sad story, as a whole, since it sets — or is intended to set — in a strong light the remedial influences of pure, natural human relations.
Page 13 - Lethean influence of exile, in which the past becomes dreamy because its symbols have all vanished, and the present too is dreamy because it is linked with no memories.
Page 125 - Gold 1 — his own gold — brought back to him as mysteriously as it had been taken away! He felt his heart begin to beat violently, and for a few moments he was unable to stretch out his hand and grasp the restored treasure. The heap of gold seemed to glow and get larger beneath his agitated gaze. He leaned forward at last, and stretched forth his hand ; but instead of the hard Coin with the familiar resisting outline, his fingers encountered soft warm curls.
Page 126 - ... those far-off scenes. The thoughts were strange to him now, like old friendships impossible to revive; and yet he had a dreamy feeling that this child was somehow a message come to him from that far-off life : it stirred fibres that had never been moved in Raveloe — old quiverings of tenderness — old impressions of awe at the presentiment of some Power presiding over his life...
Page 95 - God rest you, merry gentlemen, Let nothing you dismay, For Jesus Christ our Saviour Was born on Christmas-day." Dolly listened with a devout look, glancing at Marner in some confidence that this strain would help to allure him to church. " That's Christmas music," she said, when Aaron had ended, and had secured his piece of cake again.
Page i - Longfellow's Tales of a Wayside Inn. Lowell's The Vision of Sir Launfal. Macaulay's Essay on Addison. Macaulay's Essay on Hastings. Macaulay's Essay on Lord Clive. Macaulay's Essay on Milton. Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome. Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson.
Page 147 - He half expected that this would be shock enough, and that Eppie would begin to cry. But instead of that, she began to shake herself on his knee, as if the proposition opened a pleasing novelty. Seeing that he must proceed to extremities, he put her into the coal-hole, and held the door closed, with a trembling sense that he was using a strong measure. For a moment there was silence, but then came a little cry, " Opy, opy 1 " and Silas let her out again, saying, " Now Eppie 'ull never be naughty...