The Heavenly Twins, 1. köideCassell Publishing Company, 1893 - 679 pages |
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Page vii
... night - the bells - and the four winds of heaven by day and night spread it abroad over the great wicked city , and over the fair flat country , by many a tiny township and peaceful farmstead and scattered hamlet , on , on , it was said ...
... night - the bells - and the four winds of heaven by day and night spread it abroad over the great wicked city , and over the fair flat country , by many a tiny township and peaceful farmstead and scattered hamlet , on , on , it was said ...
Page viii
... night , or at different seasons of the year at all events ; and opinion differed as widely upon this point as we are told they did on one occasion in some other place with regard to the question whether a fish weighed heavier when it ...
... night , or at different seasons of the year at all events ; and opinion differed as widely upon this point as we are told they did on one occasion in some other place with regard to the question whether a fish weighed heavier when it ...
Page x
... night , looking down upon the earth , and never did anything else nor felt it monotonous . Buddha himself , in Nirvana , could not have attained to a greater perfection of contemplation than that with which they credited this curious ...
... night , looking down upon the earth , and never did anything else nor felt it monotonous . Buddha himself , in Nirvana , could not have attained to a greater perfection of contemplation than that with which they credited this curious ...
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... night- gowns , their forefingers in their mouths , their inquisitive noses tilted in the air , and their bright eyes round with astonish- ment . It was like the middle of the night to them , and they had expected to find the room empty ...
... night- gowns , their forefingers in their mouths , their inquisitive noses tilted in the air , and their bright eyes round with astonish- ment . It was like the middle of the night to them , and they had expected to find the room empty ...
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... night . She saw what she expected to see , but all transformed , and she saw some- thing beyond , which she did not expect , and could neither comprehend nor forget . So far she had only thought of Evadne as a nice , quiet little thing ...
... night . She saw what she expected to see , but all transformed , and she saw some- thing beyond , which she did not expect , and could neither comprehend nor forget . So far she had only thought of Evadne as a nice , quiet little thing ...
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Page 387 - Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on ; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
Page 586 - PART II. THERE she weaves by night and day A magic web with colours gay. She has heard a whisper say, A curse is on her if she stay To look down to Camelot. She knows not what the curse may be, And so she weaveth steadily, And little other care hath she, The Lady of Shalott. And moving thro' a mirror clear That hangs before her all the year, Shadows of the world appear.
Page 241 - They dare not devise good for man's estate, And yet they know not that they do not dare. The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom; And all best things are thus confused to ill. Many are strong and rich, and would be just, But live among their suffering fellow-men As if none felt: they know not what they do.
Page 126 - ... a great memory ; if he confer little he had need have a present wit ; and if he read little he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics, subtle ; natural philosophy, deep ; moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Page 454 - Great men may jest with saints : 'tis wit in them ; But, in the less, foul profanation. Lucio. Thou'rt in the right, girl ; more o' that. Isab. That in the captain's but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.
Page 57 - And the vast minster seems a cross of flowers! But fiends and dragons on the gargoyled eaves Watch the dead Christ between the living thieves, And, underneath, the traitor Judas lowers! Ah! from what agonies of heart and brain...
Page 241 - Hypocrisy and Custom make their minds The fanes of many a worship now outworn. They dare not devise good for man's estate, ' And yet they know not that they do not dare. The good want power but to weep barren tears : The powerful goodness want, — worse need for them : The wise want love : and those who love want wisdom : And all best things are thus confused to ill.
Page 46 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Page 558 - My duty towards my neighbour is, to love him as myself, and to do to all men as I would they should do unto me...
Page 256 - He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.