 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - Religion - 1878 - 578 pages
...care, eating our very heart away, is our lot for years. The sympathising word and the heart-look have only to come and the barriers are thrown down, swept away, leaving us like little babes. I think there is not enough sentiment in l1fe: There surely is a text on which a layman's sermon might well... | |
 | John Martin, Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - 1878 - 318 pages
...square foot of land mapped out and occupied, is the lot of many. All they can hope to do, at the best, is to live from hand to mouth like birds, happy if,...man who can draw out of us the recognition of our common origin, interests, and destiny. The soul of the man we talk to seems as remote as the last stars... | |
 | Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - 1878 - 318 pages
...Interview with Rev. Mr. W., Vicar of Tottenham, at Tottenham. Oct. 13. — It does us good to bear the kind word, and know that the kind heart exists...man who can draw out of us the recognition of our common origin, interests, and destiny. The soul of the man we talk to seems as remote as the last stars... | |
 | John Martin - 1878 - 314 pages
...weight of secret sorrow and care, eating our very heart away, is our lot for years. The sympathizing word and the heart-look has only to come, and the...babes. I think that there is not enough sentiment O We talk of our common origin, but we seldom feel thc truth of it : we never compare notes, as regards... | |
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Dickens, after thirty years have elapsed, speaks with bitterness of the sufferings of early manhood. Because the spirit suffers a whole lifetime of torment, it projects these dreary days far, far into the future, so that they make sombre and worthless... 