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" It is an exquisite and beautiful thing in our nature, that when the heart is touched and softened by some tranquil happiness or affectionate feeling, the memory of the dead comes over it most powerfully and irresistibly. It would almost seem as though... "
Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set ... - Page 346
by Charles Dickens - 1867
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

Charles Dickens - 1839 - 740 pages
...were all so happy for so many years, except that the kindest and gentlest heart that ever ached on earth has passed in peace to heaven." "Kate my dear,...charms, in virtue of which the soul is enabled to hold Mme vague and mysterious intercourse with the spirits of those whom we dearly loved in life. Alas !...
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

Charles Dickens - 1839 - 730 pages
...all his kind words — of the last time he looked into my little room, as he passed up-stairs to hed, and said, ' God bless you, darling.' There was a paleness...in virtue of which the soul is enabled to hold some vag^ie and mysterious intercourse with the spirits of those whom we dearly loved in life. Alas ! how...
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

Charles Dickens - Fiction - 1839 - 488 pages
...passed upstairs to bed, and said, 'God bless you, darling.' There was a paleness in his face, mamma — the broken heart — I know it was — I little thought...powerfully and irresistibly. It would almost seem aa though our better thoughts and sympathies were charms, in virtue of which the soul is enabled to...
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The Literary world, conducted by J. Timbs, Volume 1

John Timbs - 1839 - 446 pages
...have thought of anything but my army on such a day." Touching Reflection (from Nicholas Nickleby). It is an exquisite and beautiful thing in our nature,...over it most powerfully and irresistibly. It would seem almost as though our better thoughts and sympathies were charms, in virtue of which the soul is...
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The Saturday Magazine, Volume 17

1841 - 272 pages
...journey, during which time he often said, "Thanks to the Brompton stock." — PHILLIPS' Flora Hiitorica. IT is an exquisite and beautiful thing in our nature,...happiness or affectionate feeling, the memory of the dead cornea over it most powerfully and irresistibly. It would almost seem *s though our better thoughts...
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

Charles Dickens - Boarding schools - 1842 - 694 pages
...room, as he passed пp-stairs to bed, and said, ' God bless you, darling.' There was a paleness in lu- face, mama — the broken heart — I know it was...affectionate feeling, the memory of the dead comes over it tnost powerfully and irresistibly. It would ahuost seem as though our better thoughts and sympathies...
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The Intellectual repository for the New Church. (July/Sept. 1817 ...

New Church gen. confer - 1854 - 590 pages
...cease to love it that it dies. ' It is an exquisite and beautiful thing in our nature,' says Dickens, 'that when the heart is touched and softened by some...in virtue of which the soul is enabled to hold some mysterious intercourse with the spirits of those whom we dearly loved in this life. Alas ! how often...
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The New York Journal: An Illustrated Literary Periodical, Volume 1

1854 - 378 pages
...MEMORY OF THE DEAD. — It is an exquisite and beautiful thing in our nature, that when the heart U touched and softened by some tranquil happiness or...sympathies were charms, in virtue of which the soul is cnhlcd to hold some vague and mysterious intercourse with the spirits of those whom we dearly loved...
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Compitum: Or, The Meeting of the Ways at the Catholic Church, Book 7

Kenelm Henry Digby - 1854 - 626 pages
...As of a bird from a chain unbound, As of a wanderer whose home is found *." It has been remarked as an " exquisite and beautiful thing in our nature,...dead comes over it most powerfully and irresistibly." So it is felt here. These young women of the common people, whom Richardson describes when relating...
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Immortelles from Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens, Ich (pseud) - 1856 - 208 pages
...passed upstairs to bed, and said ' God bless you, darling.' There was a paleness in his face, mamma — the broken heart — I know it was — I little thought...is touched and softened by some tranquil happiness of affectionate feeling, the memory of the dead comes over it most powerfully and irresistibly. It...
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