The History of David Grieve, Volumen1Macmillan and Company, 1891 - 576 páginas David Grieve and his sister are orphans being raised by their aunt and uncle in the country. David is unhappy and runs away to the city of Manchester hoping to find work and make enough money to send for his sister. He learns the book shop trade, ultimately acquiring his own shop, and writes religious pamphlets. After receiving an unexpected inheritance, David's sister joins him. She has grown up now and is determined to live on her own terms. She goes to Paris and has an affair with a bohemian artist. David is devastated and wants to save her from this unconvential life. Religious figures come into the story influencing both characters. |
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The History of David Grieve, Vol. 1 of 3 (Classic Reprint) Mrs. Humphry Ward Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
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Página 109 - Come, O thou Traveller unknown, Whom still I hold, but cannot see ; My company before is gone, And I am left alone with Thee ; With Thee all night I mean to stay, And wrestle till the break of day.
Página 109 - tis Love! Thou diedst for me! I hear Thy whisper in my heart! The morning breaks, the shadows flee; Pure universal Love Thou art ! To me, to all, Thy bowels move; Thy nature, and Thy name, is Love!
Página 569 - ... with which the writer is evidently possessed, and in the earnestness and persistency of purpose with which through every page and line it is pursued. The book is eminently an offspring of the time, and will probably make a deep, or at least a very sensible impression; not, however, among mere novel- readers, but among those who share, in whatever sense, the deeper thought of the period.
Página 54 - The seat of Desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful? Thither let us tend...
Página 200 - Brightening with beams the morning pale. And burning in the mid-day sky, Quench thou the fires of hate and strife, The wasting fever of the heart ; From perils guard our feeble life, And to our souls thy peace impart.
Página 490 - Go and kiss her,' said David. Sandy most unwillingly allowed himself to be put forward. Ce"cile with a little patronising woman-of-theworld air stooped and kissed him first on one cheek and then on the other. Louie only looked at him. Her black eyes — no less marvellous than of yore, although now the brilliancy of them owed something to art as well as nature, as Lucy at once perceived — stared him up and down, taking stock minutely. 'He's well made,' she said, grudgingly, 'and his colour is n't...
Página 100 - If I live to be a hundred I shall never forget that little glimpse you've just given me of yourself.
Página 54 - Perhaps hath spent his shafts, and ceases now To bellow through the vast and boundless deep. Let us not slip the occasion, whether scorn, Or satiate fury, yield it from our Foe. Seest thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The seat of Desolation, void of light...
Página 109 - In vain thou strugglest to get free, I never will unloose my hold! Art thou the Man that died for me? The secret of thy love unfold; Wrestling, I will not let thee go, Till I thy name, thy nature know.
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Of Victorians and Vegetarians: The Vegetarian Movement in Nineteenth-century ... James Gregory Vista de fragmentos - 2007 |
Women and Social Action in Victorian and Edwardian England Jane E. Lewis Sin vista previa disponible - 1991 |