My lady Green Sleeves, by the author of 'Comin' thro' the rye'. |
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My Lady Green Sleeves, by the Author of 'Comin' Thro' the Rye' Helen Buckingham Mathers No preview available - 2016 |
My Lady Green Sleeves, by the Author of 'Comin' Thro' the Rye' Helen Buckingham Mathers No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 214 - The study of strange doctrines is injurious indeed ! " XVH. The Master said, " Yew, shall I teach you what knowledge is ? When you know a thing, to hold that you know it ; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it; — this is knowledge.
Page 93 - Smack went the whip, round went the wheels, Were never folks so glad ; The stones did rattle underneath, As if Cheapside were mad.
Page 140 - Their beds are made in the heavens high, Down at the foot of our good lord's knee, Weel set about wi' gillyflowers : , I wot sweet company for to see.
Page 212 - Yima, when men and cattle were immortal, when water and trees never dried up and food was plentiful, when there was no cold nor heat, no envy nor old age. The Buddhist looks back to the age of glorious soaring beings who had no sin, no sex, no want of food till the unhappy hour when, tasting a delicious scum that formed upon the surface of the earth, they fell into evil and in time became degraded. It was King Chetiya who told the first lie, and the people who heard of it, not knowing what a lie...
Page 211 - Pars! looks back to the happy rule of King Yima, when men and cattle were immortal, when water and trees never dried up and food was plentiful, when there was no cold nor heat, no envy nor old age. The Buddhist looks back to the age of glorious soaring beings who had no sin, no sex, no want of food till the unhappy hour when, tasting a delicious scum that formed upon the surface of the earth, they fell into evil and in time became degraded. It was King Chetiya who told the first lie, and the people...
Page 138 - When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned as a child ; when I became a man I put away childish things.
Page 174 - If such be the case, the wonderful noonday silence of a tropical forest is, after all, due only to the dulness of our hearing; and could our ears catch the murmur of these tiny Maelstroms, as they whirl in the innumerable myriads of living cells which constitute each tree, we should be stunned, as with the roar of a great city.
Page 32 - Your goun sall be the Sweet William ; Your coat the camovine ; Your apron o' the sallads neat, » That taste baith sweet and fine.
Page 158 - to employ none but the most sober, regular young men I can get. Evil...
Page 212 - The Buddhist looks back to the age of glorious soaring beings who had no sin, no sex, no want of food, till the unhappy hour when, tasting a delicious scum that formed upon the surface of the earth, they fell into evil, and in time became degraded to eat rice, to bear children, to build houses, to divide property, and to establish caste.