The Wingless VictoryJ. Lane, 1907 - 411 pàgines |
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Pàgina 2
... woman , somewhat like a wild strawberry , for she had the knack of gathering but the daintiest perfection from food and air . The waves of dark hair half hid her blue - veined forehead , above the storm- cloud eyes that , on a close ...
... woman , somewhat like a wild strawberry , for she had the knack of gathering but the daintiest perfection from food and air . The waves of dark hair half hid her blue - veined forehead , above the storm- cloud eyes that , on a close ...
Pàgina 7
... woman , ' saith Mrs. Rouncevell to Archelaus over and over again , ' for many strong men have been slain by her , ' saith she . And , by the Lord , for all missus is a poor tool , it's a true thing that her saith . " " You wretched old ...
... woman , ' saith Mrs. Rouncevell to Archelaus over and over again , ' for many strong men have been slain by her , ' saith she . And , by the Lord , for all missus is a poor tool , it's a true thing that her saith . " " You wretched old ...
Pàgina 9
... woman , man ; to both , a world that exists but to be drained of its delights . Lighting her fire on a ledge , she laughed at the vision of the cider - keg , for it exactly expressed her own mood . She crooned a wordless song to herself ...
... woman , man ; to both , a world that exists but to be drained of its delights . Lighting her fire on a ledge , she laughed at the vision of the cider - keg , for it exactly expressed her own mood . She crooned a wordless song to herself ...
Pàgina 13
... woman , as well as every man , must have a leverage , a chance of a career . That's woman's lever - marriage . " " But-- " said Archelaus , patting the hand he had caught . " Oh yes , it's full of ' but . ' There are women who can live ...
... woman , as well as every man , must have a leverage , a chance of a career . That's woman's lever - marriage . " " But-- " said Archelaus , patting the hand he had caught . " Oh yes , it's full of ' but . ' There are women who can live ...
Pàgina 18
... woman that lies in wait to snare the feet of youth . As he fought with the charred bough , he tried to forget the thought that stabbed him through and through , a sense of the lightness of an adored woman . The sweat- drops trickled ...
... woman that lies in wait to snare the feet of youth . As he fought with the charred bough , he tried to forget the thought that stabbed him through and through , a sense of the lightness of an adored woman . The sweat- drops trickled ...
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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.