 In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth...  George Eliot - Page 135by Mathilde Blind - 1883 - 218 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1861 - 304 pages
...purpose to the earnings, drawing his hope and joy continually onward beyond the money. In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand,...more backward; and the hand may be a little child's. CHAPTER XV. THERE was one person, as you will believe, who watched with keener though more hidden interest... | |
 | 1861 - 838 pages
...plain." A beautiful paragraph may give the spirit and intention of the whole book : — " In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand...backward ; and the hand may be a little child's." POEMS, Sacred and Secular. Bv the Kev. William Crossvrell, DD Edited, with a Memoir, by A. Cleveland... | |
 | George Eliot - Adopted children - 1861 - 398 pages
...purpose to the earnings, drawing his hope and joy continually onward beyond the money. In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand...more backward ; and the hand may be a little child's. CHAPTER XV. THERE was one person, as you will believe, who watched with keener though more hidden interest... | |
 | Education - 1897 - 678 pages
...members are without any knowledge of the truth expressed so beautifully by George Eliot: "In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the citj' of destruction. We see no whitewinged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction;... | |
 | George Eliot - English fiction - 1864 - 300 pages
...purpose to the earnings, drawing his hope and joy continually onward beyond the money. In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of 20 destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction:... | |
 | English literature - 1873 - 778 pages
...then we encounter beautiful and poetic ideas. This, for instance, is admirably put : " In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand...backward ; and the hand may be a little child's." Such is the story of the weaver of Raveloe ; a little child is to lead him back again to the faith... | |
 | George Eliot, Alexander Main - Aphorisms and apothegms in literature - 1873 - 444 pages
...PART FOURTH. SAYINGS FROM 'SILAS MARNER.' SILAS MARKER. George Eliot (in propria persona). IN old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand...more backward ; and the hand may be a little child's. The gods of the hearth exist for us still ; and let all new faith be tolerant of that fetishism, lest... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1873 - 766 pages
...then we encounter beautiful and poetic ideas. This, for instance, is admirably put : " In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand...backward ; and the hand may be a little child's." Such is the story of the weaver of Raveloe ; a little child is to lead him back again to the faith... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1920 - 596 pages
...key-note of the story, telling how a child may flood with light an old man's darkened hopes. "In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand...is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently toward a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child's."... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 874 pages
...purpose to the earnings, drawing his hope and joy continually onward beyond the money. In old days lese singular and unexpected. On observing a company...reapers, in a field bj the way-side, taking their br white winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction : a hand i¿ put into... | |
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