Things in General, 1. köideW. Kent & Company, 1877 |
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Page 110 - some few to be chewed and digested. That is, some books are to be read in parts, others to be read, but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 201 - ay ' strong as an oath ? Or is it the same sin to break my word As break mine oath ? He call'd my word my bond ; He is a liar who knows I am a liar, And makes believe that he believes my word— The crime be on his head—not
Page 115 - a kind of Physiognomy in the titles of books, no less than in the faces of men ; by which a skilful observer will as well know what to expect from the one as the other.
Page 18 - dwell in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring.
Page 18 - Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwell in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring.
Page 207 - God help me ! I know nothing—can but pray For Harold, pray, pray, pray ; no help but prayer, A breath that fleets beyond this iron world, And touches Him that made it.
Page 270 - Tell him the Saints are nobler than he dreams; Tell him that God is nobler than the Saints, And tell him we stand arm'd on Senlac Hill, And bide the doom of God."
Page 204 - Love is come with a song and a smile, Welcome love with a smile and a song, Love can stay but a little while. Why cannot he stay ? They call him away.
Page 273 - Wrap them together in a purple cloak, And lay them both upon the waste sea-shore At Hastings, there to guard the land for which He did forswear himself—
Page 272 - Harold ? Oh no—nay, if it were—my God, They have so maim'd and murder'd all his face, There is no man can swear to him." Edith " But one woman ! Look you, we never mean to part again. I have found him, I am happy. Was there not some one ask'd me for forgiveness ? I yield it freely, being the true wife Of this dead King, who never bore revenge.