The Heavenly Twins, 1. köideCassell Publishing Company, 1893 - 679 pages |
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Page ix
... sitting alone on a throne of ivory and gold inlaid with precious stones ; and recited the catalogue of those mentioned in the Book of the Revelation by preference as imparting a fine scriptural flavor to the idea . And he. PROEM . ix.
... sitting alone on a throne of ivory and gold inlaid with precious stones ; and recited the catalogue of those mentioned in the Book of the Revelation by preference as imparting a fine scriptural flavor to the idea . And he. PROEM . ix.
Page xiii
... sitting with his dreamy eyes fixed on the water : " He , watching over Israel , slumbers not , nor sleeps . There was another long silence , and then the lad spoke once more , with apathetic gravity , asking : " Who's He ? " The old man ...
... sitting with his dreamy eyes fixed on the water : " He , watching over Israel , slumbers not , nor sleeps . There was another long silence , and then the lad spoke once more , with apathetic gravity , asking : " Who's He ? " The old man ...
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... sitting out on the lawn at Fraylingay one day after dinner , as was their wont in the summer - he , on this occasion , under the influence of a good cigar , mellow in mind and moral in sentiment , but inclining to be didactic for the ...
... sitting out on the lawn at Fraylingay one day after dinner , as was their wont in the summer - he , on this occasion , under the influence of a good cigar , mellow in mind and moral in sentiment , but inclining to be didactic for the ...
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... sitting amid the wreckage in the middle of the table not a bit abashed by the novelty of their conspicuous position . Only Evadne , who was standing behind her mother's chair , remained grave . She seemed to be considering the situation ...
... sitting amid the wreckage in the middle of the table not a bit abashed by the novelty of their conspicuous position . Only Evadne , who was standing behind her mother's chair , remained grave . She seemed to be considering the situation ...
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... sitting up with him . Angelica heaved a sigh of satis- faction . Evadne's patience with the twins was wonderful . She always took charge of them cheerfully on wet days and in other times of trouble , and managed them with infinite tact ...
... sitting up with him . Angelica heaved a sigh of satis- faction . Evadne's patience with the twins was wonderful . She always took charge of them cheerfully on wet days and in other times of trouble , and managed them with infinite tact ...
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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.