The Wingless VictoryJ. Lane, 1907 - 411 pàgines |
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Pàgina 11
... voice , that now and then broke from a man's steady baritone to a boy's flute note . One guessed , from the ring of it , how , for a second or two , Archelaus was Marlowe over again — the poet who gathers up in a line the poignant sting ...
... voice , that now and then broke from a man's steady baritone to a boy's flute note . One guessed , from the ring of it , how , for a second or two , Archelaus was Marlowe over again — the poet who gathers up in a line the poignant sting ...
Pàgina 13
... voice . " Your mother was wrong not to let you have a profes- sion , but you can't always be looking backwards . Go away and fight for your own hand , and bear in mind my envy that you carry with you . " " I've never seen anything of ...
... voice . " Your mother was wrong not to let you have a profes- sion , but you can't always be looking backwards . Go away and fight for your own hand , and bear in mind my envy that you carry with you . " " I've never seen anything of ...
Pàgina 19
... voice rang out again in her fancy ; it was not in this way that Dr. Borlace had talked , and yet it was this tone that a woman's heart would go on missing till the very end . This , too , she might have conquered , but for Eve's inherit ...
... voice rang out again in her fancy ; it was not in this way that Dr. Borlace had talked , and yet it was this tone that a woman's heart would go on missing till the very end . This , too , she might have conquered , but for Eve's inherit ...
Pàgina 29
... voices , " flung the child of destiny at the feet of Merlin , was a seething hell of tortured waves , rising in walls of translucent emerald at one moment , to fall the next amid the thunder of the rolling pebbles . Wilmot could feel ...
... voices , " flung the child of destiny at the feet of Merlin , was a seething hell of tortured waves , rising in walls of translucent emerald at one moment , to fall the next amid the thunder of the rolling pebbles . Wilmot could feel ...
Pàgina 31
... voice , " but that the new 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 ...
... voice , " but that the new 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 ...
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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.