 He assures me that this was the only spiteful thing he did during the whole time he was at Battersby. When he went up to his bedroom, in which to do them justice they had given him a fire, he noticed what indeed he had noticed as soon as he was shown...  The Way of All Flesh - Page 385by Samuel Butler - 1908 - 420 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1877 - 564 pages
...her precepts la a destroying fury, sent from bell To plague unhappy men and ruin nations." SAMUEL " Be the day weary or be the day long, At last it ringeth to evensong." ETM WALKER. Krplic*. CURIOUS ERRORS CAUSED BY HOMONYMY. (5th S. iv. 483 ; v. 155, 211 ; vi. Ill, 199,... | |
 | Louisa Hawtrey - 1872 - 208 pages
...where he knew he would find envoys from the King, and directions for his further guidance. CHAPTER X. " Be the day weary, or be the day long, At last it ringeth to evensong." THE first thing that the gaoler did the next morning, when he visited the prisoners in the castle,... | |
 | Louisa Hawtrey - 1873 - 218 pages
...refreshment so soon as the cessation of hostilities outside would enable them to take it. Happily — " Be the day weary, or be the day long, At last it ringeth to evensong ;" and so indeed at last the sun, which had risen from out the morning mists, and had shone with all... | |
 | Louisa Hawtrey - 1873 - 218 pages
...refreshment so soon as the cessation of hostilities outside would enable them to take it. Happily — li Be the day weary, or be the day long, At last it ringeth to evensong j" and so indeed at last the sun, which had risei* from out the morning mists, and had shone with all... | |
 | Isabel Reaney - 1878 - 296 pages
...cross with a brave manliness, and learnt " How divine a thing it is To suffer and be strong." But " Be the day weary, or be the day long, At last it ringeth to evensong." Helen Harcourt would be twenty-one in December ; the desolate waiting-time would be at end, and the... | |
 | William Arthur Brameld - 1880 - 112 pages
...never cease till the sun of your life goes down, and your " strife is o'er, your battle done." ' ' Be the day weary, or be the day long, At last it ringeth to evensong." See Ps. civ. 23. Mark, "until the evening." And * See Neale's " Sermons for Children," p. 149. then... | |
 | Edward Richard Christie - 1880 - 216 pages
...CANTO IV. " O for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still ! " TENNYSON. " Be the day weary, or be the day long, At last it ringeth to Evensong." FARRAR. " Farewell ! thou art too dear my possessing ! " SHAKESPEARE. CANTO FOURTH. OH fatal news !... | |
 | 1882 - 866 pages
...to her father as he alternately spoke with encouragement and anxiety of the contemplated voyage. " Be the day weary, or be the day long, At last it ringeth to evensong." And so, hour by hour, the time wore itself a way, and Will came back at last to tell them all was settled... | |
 | John Ross MacDuff - 1883 - 144 pages
...at the base of Mount Sinai, echoing down the giant valley and summoning to prayer and rest : — " Be the day weary, or be the day long, At last it ringeth to even-song." Moreover, as the former consists of portions of sacred Scripture necessarily and exclusively selected... | |
 | Nina H. Kennard - 1883 - 342 pages
...strange, wild yearnings will arise in one's heart; but on the whole, I am happy. And then, after all, ' " Be the day weary or be the day long, At last it ringeth to evensong." A journey always seems so much shorter when you look back upon it ; you forget all but one or two salient... | |
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