The Wingless VictoryJ. Lane, 1907 - 411 pàgines |
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... SOUL . 53 VIII . A GENTLEMAN IN HOMESPUN • 64 IX . THE PLACE OF A STONE · • 73 X. FEMINA FURENS 82 XI . ROSEMARY AND RUE . • · 91 XII . THE COURT OF THE GENTILES XIII . SURSUM CORDA ! XIV . HONEY FROM THE ROCK • 103 • • 114 • 131 XV ...
... SOUL . 53 VIII . A GENTLEMAN IN HOMESPUN • 64 IX . THE PLACE OF A STONE · • 73 X. FEMINA FURENS 82 XI . ROSEMARY AND RUE . • · 91 XII . THE COURT OF THE GENTILES XIII . SURSUM CORDA ! XIV . HONEY FROM THE ROCK • 103 • • 114 • 131 XV ...
Pàgina 8
... souls think they'm warm and dry if their hats be on , till I come to scrub the very island he sat upon . That did for ' en . They'm no use at all , except for a pig - killing and that . " Her mind was turned in a fortunate direction ...
... souls think they'm warm and dry if their hats be on , till I come to scrub the very island he sat upon . That did for ' en . They'm no use at all , except for a pig - killing and that . " Her mind was turned in a fortunate direction ...
Pàgina 18
... soul , by the misery of experience . He had never been to a public school , and had known nothing of the burning sun and buffeting wind of reality . Then , denied companionship , the boy took to books , and the books led him to a world ...
... soul , by the misery of experience . He had never been to a public school , and had known nothing of the burning sun and buffeting wind of reality . Then , denied companionship , the boy took to books , and the books led him to a world ...
Pàgina 26
... soul fighting unseen forces , with weapons caught from the armoury of ignorance . For the boy was not armed , but the weaker for this harping on the hidden lure of sinful charm . Ah , for the sun and wind of natural life , for the law ...
... soul fighting unseen forces , with weapons caught from the armoury of ignorance . For the boy was not armed , but the weaker for this harping on the hidden lure of sinful charm . Ah , for the sun and wind of natural life , for the law ...
Pàgina 31
... souls clamour at the gates of life ? " " Why did you marry him ? " he asked , suddenly turning over to look in her face . " Oh , I know , I shouldn't say it , but it's the house - sparrow and the seamew . " " I told you . I wanted to ...
... souls clamour at the gates of life ? " " Why did you marry him ? " he asked , suddenly turning over to look in her face . " Oh , I know , I shouldn't say it , but it's the house - sparrow and the seamew . " " I told you . I wanted to ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 195 - There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.
Pàgina 11 - Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in, the beauty of a thousand stars...
Pàgina 38 - Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant." But he knoweth not that the dead are there ; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
Pàgina 218 - Death is a fearful thing. ... to die, and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison...
Pàgina 226 - Are you then, sir, put out of the bill ?" , " Wouldest thou know, son, why I am so joyful ? In good faith I rejoice that I have given the devil a foul fall ; because I have with those lords gone so far that without great shame I can never go back?
Pàgina 85 - And since God occasionally magnifies and illustrates the exceeding riches of His grace by calling one, and another, at the eleventh hour, making them, after being grafted into Christ, bring forth fruit even in old age, making, so to speak, " the barren woman to keep house and be a joyful mother of children," there is no age, and no case hopeless. The words, " Is anything too hard for the Lord ? " are as applicable to the new birth of an old man as to the birth of Isaac by an old woman. So fast as...
Pàgina 408 - ... environment our race has passed into another stage; it is marked now by a passionate desire for the mastery of life — a desire, spiritualized in the highest lives, materialized in the lowest, so to mould environment that the lives to come may be shaped to our will. It is this which accounts for the curious likeness in our to-day with that of the Elizabethans; their spirit was the untamed will, but our will moves in other paths than theirs, paths beaten for our treading by the ages between.