The Life of Edna Lyall (Ada Ellen Bayly)Longmans, Green, and Company, 1904 - 266 páginas |
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able ADA ELLEN BAYLY amused aunt beautiful Ben Greet Bonner Bosbury Bradlaugh Burges Letters Canon Rawnsley Capel Curig Caterham CHAPTER character Christian Christmas Church COLLEGE ROAD cousin dear delightful Donovan Doreen dreadful Eastbourne Edna Lyall wrote Ellie enjoyed feel felt girl give glad going Golden Days happy hard hear heart Hereford Herefordshire hero holiday Homewood Hope the Hermit interesting Ireland John Hampden kind Knight Errant lady Lady Verney later Liberal live London look Mary Davies meeting Michael Davitt Miss Bayly morning never nice night Norseman novel nurse one's pain peace play pleasure published quiet realise Right the Wrong says seems sent sister slander sorrow speak Spite stay story Sunday sure sympathy talk tell thank things thought Ulvik week William O'Brien wish wonderful words writes written
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Página iii - The dear Lord's best interpreters Are humble human souls; The Gospel of a life like hers Is more than books or scrolls. From scheme and creed the light goes out, The saintly fact survives; The blessed Master none can doubt Revealed in holy lives.
Página 120 - I long'd for laughter. At last I heard the Time-Clock boom, And woke from my dream in my little room; With a smile on her lips my Mother was nigh, And I heard the baby crow and cry. And I thought to myself, How nice it is For me to live in a world like this, Where things can happen, and clocks can strike, And none of the people are made alike...
Página 3 - That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive! The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction...
Página 234 - Baptism doth represent unto us our profession ; which is, to follow the example of our Saviour Christ, and to be made like unto him ; that, as he died, and rose again for us, so should we, who are baptized, die from sin, and rise again unto righteousness ; continually mortifying all our evil and corrupt affections, and daily proceeding in all virtue and godliness of living.
Página 72 - Pitch thy behaviour low, thy projects high ; So shalt thou humble and magnanimous be: Sink not in spirit ; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
Página 251 - LORD, it belongs not to my care Whether I die or live: To love and serve Thee is my share, And this Thy grace must give. If life be long, I will be glad, That I may long obey ; If short, yet why should I be sad To soar to endless day...
Página 257 - Divine mercy, and of a grateful adoration for the Divine goodness. Her tastes and habits had been moulded into a perfect conformity to his. He celebrates her Catholic charity to the opponents of their religious opinions, and her inflexible adherence to her own ; her high esteem of the active and passive virtues of the Christian life, as contrasted with a barren orthodoxy ; her noble disinterestedness, her skill in casuistry, her love of music, and her medicinal arts.
Página 2 - friend like a sister, In calm or stormy weather, To cheer one on the tedious way, To fetch one if one goes astray, To lift one if one totters down, To strengthen whilst one stands.
Página 252 - As for me, I am like a green olive-tree in the house of God : my trust is in the tender mercy of God for ever and ever.
Página 181 - Bebuker to explain our failures and shame us from our lowness; as our Purifier, our Uplifter, our Ideal, whose life to us is a constant challenge in our heart, " Friend, come up higher, —higher along with me; that you and I may be those true lovers who are nearest to God when nearest to each other...