Modes and Morals |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
ęsthetic American Ann Veronica Arnold Bennett beauty become believe Bennett better certainly charm civilized contemporary conventional culture D. H. Lawrence deal decent delightful democracy dress England English fact fancy Fanny Crosby fashion feel fiction Galsworthy gentleman George Eliot girl give going Gospel Hymns grape-nuts hero heroine Hilda Hilda Lessways honor human intellectual J. D. Beresford Jane Eyre kind Kipling knew labor ladies least less Little Women living look marry matter mean Meredith mind Miss Alcott's modern moral never novelists novels one's ourselves parlor-maid passion perfectly perhaps person physical plumbing poor Procrustes remember sense sentimental servants simply sing slums social socialists society soul speaking spirit sure tabu talk tell thing tion tional Tom Jones truth uncon ventional waltz music woman women words young
Popular passages
Page 236 - So to the land our hearts we give Till the sure magic strike, And Memory, Use, and Love make live Us and our fields alike — That deeper than our speech and thought, Beyond our reason's sway, Clay of the pit whence we were wrought Yearns to its fellow-clay.
Page 238 - Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!
Page 27 - In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, And their cauls, and their round tires like the moon, The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs...
Page 135 - Julia's hair curls naturally," returned Miss Temple, still more quietly. "Naturally! Yes, but we are not to conform to nature. I wish these girls to be the children of Grace; and why that abundance?
Page 228 - It was our fault, and our very great fault — and now we must turn it to use ; We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse! So the more we work and the less we talk the better results we shall get — We have had an Imperial lesson; it may make us an Empire yet!
Page 230 - Arid, aloof, incurious, unthinking, unthanking, gelt, Will ye loose your schools to flout them till their brow-beat columns melt? Will ye pray them or preach them, or print them, or ballot them back from your shore? Will your workmen issue a mandate to bid them strike no more?
Page 234 - Eyeless, noseless, and lipless, asking a dole at the door, Matun, the old blind beggar, he tells it o'er and o'er; Fumbling and feeling the rifles, warming his hands at the flame, Hearing our careless white men talk of the morrow's game; Over and over the story, ending as he began : — " There is no truce with Adam-zad, the Bear that looks like a man!
Page 183 - Dare to be a Daniel ! Dare to stand alone ! Dare to have a purpose firm ! Dare to make it known!
Page 185 - At the cross, at the cross where I first saw the light, and the burden of my heart rolled away, (rolled a-way,) it was there by faith I received my sight, and now I am happy all the day!
Page 235 - God gave all men all earth to love, But since our hearts are small, Ordained for each one spot should prove Beloved over all...