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" 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... "
Bulletin - Page 27
1904
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The North-western Monthly: A Magazine Devoted to University ..., Volume 8

1897 - 678 pages
...that all its 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;...
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Silas Marner

George Eliot - 1864 - 300 pages
...gave a growing 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:...
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St. Nicholas, Volume 47

Mary Mapes Dodge - 1920 - 596 pages
...read the 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...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."...
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The casquet of literature, a selection in poetry and prose, ed ..., Volumes 1-2

Casket - 1873 - 882 pages
...gave a growing purpose to the earnings, drawing his hope and joy continually onward beyond the money. acter was no lese singular and unexpected. On observing...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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The Irish Monthly Magazine, Volume 3

1875 - 738 pages
...Death, the great Reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. In old days there were angels who came and took men...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...
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Silas Marner ; And, Scenes of Clerical Life

George Eliot - 1875 - 356 pages
...continually onward beyond the money. In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and ! 4* led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged auyels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction : a hand is put into theirs, which...
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The rescue of child-soul

Wilbur Fisk Crafts - 1880 - 168 pages
...star led the wise men to the Holy Child to teach us that a child can lead men to the stars." " In the old days there were angels who came and took men by...: a hand is put into theirs which leads them forth towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward ; and the hand may be a little child's."...
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MacMillan's Magazine, Volume 46

Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1882 - 556 pages
...enable us to gain some knowledge of a subject now so mysterious. MH MASON. GEORGE ELIOT'S CHILDREN. "In old days there were angels who came and took men...leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright hind, so that they look no more backward ; and the hand may be a little child's." So spake a great...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 155

1882 - 866 pages
...grass, he following her in a meditative mood. From Macmillan's Magazine. GEORGE ELIOrs CHILDREN. " In old days there were angels who came and took men...led away from threatening destruction : a hand is nut intn theirs which leads them forth gently Inwards a calm and bright land, s/< that they look no...
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George Eliot

Mathilde Blind - 1883 - 238 pages
...once more bringing him into sympathetic relations with his fellow-men. "In old days," says the story, "there were angels who came and took men by the hand...led them away from the city of destruction. We see ho whitewinged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction ; a hand is put into...
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