Ingalls of Kansas: A Character StudyThe author, 1909 - 232 pages |
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... live thereon where the winds were fierce and the heavens brass . Brown tangled grasses of never - tilled lands . Shallow streams wandering aimlessly until they frayed out and disappeared in thirsty sands . Gnarled shrubs twisted awry by ...
... live thereon where the winds were fierce and the heavens brass . Brown tangled grasses of never - tilled lands . Shallow streams wandering aimlessly until they frayed out and disappeared in thirsty sands . Gnarled shrubs twisted awry by ...
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... live . In June , 1860 , a tornado blew down most of the houses left in Sumner , and from this catastrophe its extinction is dated . Jonathan G. Lang ( the original of " Shang " in " Catfish Aristocracy " ) continued to live there on a ...
... live . In June , 1860 , a tornado blew down most of the houses left in Sumner , and from this catastrophe its extinction is dated . Jonathan G. Lang ( the original of " Shang " in " Catfish Aristocracy " ) continued to live there on a ...
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... lives came back to me , incidents forgotten , songs you sung to Ruth in winter midnights in the little back room up - stairs so long ago ; looks , caresses ; painful , sad regrets for the injuries inflicted upon your love by my ...
... lives came back to me , incidents forgotten , songs you sung to Ruth in winter midnights in the little back room up - stairs so long ago ; looks , caresses ; painful , sad regrets for the injuries inflicted upon your love by my ...
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... live . He despised " the foolish wrangle of the market and forum " . It was his inclination to live apart from the world , an esthetic dreamer . The gratification of this whimsical desire the good sense of Mrs. Ingalls prevented . Had ...
... live . He despised " the foolish wrangle of the market and forum " . It was his inclination to live apart from the world , an esthetic dreamer . The gratification of this whimsical desire the good sense of Mrs. Ingalls prevented . Had ...
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... live again ? " Every man is the center of a circle whose fatal circumference he cannot pass . Within its nar- row confines he is potential , beyond it he perishes ; and if immortality be a splendid but delusive dream , if the ...
... live again ? " Every man is the center of a circle whose fatal circumference he cannot pass . Within its nar- row confines he is potential , beyond it he perishes ; and if immortality be a splendid but delusive dream , if the ...
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Page 84 - ... or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was : and the spirit shall return unto GOD Who gave it.
Page 3 - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale ; look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops; I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
Page 131 - Had I a sword of keener steel — That blue blade that the king's son bears, — but this Blunt thing — !" he snapt and flung it from his hand, And lowering crept away and left the field. Then came the king's son, wounded, sore bestead, And weaponless, and saw the broken sword, Hilt-buried in the dry and trodden sand, And ran and snatched it, and with battle shout Lifted afresh, he hewed his enemy down, And saved a great cause that heroic day.
Page 129 - Master of human destinies am I! Fame, love and fortune on my footsteps wait. Cities and fields I walk; I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and passing by Hovel and mart and palace, soon or late I knock unbidden once at every gate! If sleeping, wake: if feasting, rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate...
Page 130 - Dost Thou behold Thy lost youth all aghast? Dost reel from righteous retribution's blow? Then turn from blotted archives of the past And find the future's pages white as snow. Art Thou a mourner? rouse Thee from Thy spell; Art Thou a sinner? Sins may be forgiven; Each morning gives Thee wings to flee from Hell, Each night a star to guide Thy feet to Heaven.
Page 71 - Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ; whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not. For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised; and if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
Page 83 - Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, While the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, When thou shall say, I have no pleasure in them...
Page 131 - THIS I beheld, or dreamed it in a dream: — There spread a cloud of dust along a plain ; And underneath the cloud, or in it, raged A furious battle, and men yelled, and swords Shocked upon swords and shields. A prince's banner Wavered, then staggered backward, hemmed by foes. A craven hung along the battle's edge, And thought, ' Had I a sword of keener steel — That blue blade that the king's son bears,— but this Blunt thing ! ' — he snapt and flung it from his hand, And lowering crept away...
Page 131 - This I beheld, or dreamed it in a dream: — There spread a cloud of dust along a plain; And underneath the cloud, or in it, raged A furious battle, and men yelled, and swords Shocked upon swords and shields. A prince's banner Wavered, then staggered backward, hemmed by foes. A craven hung above the battle's edge. And thought, "Had I a sword of keener steel — That blue blade that the king's son bears, — but this Blunt thing — !" he snapt and flung it from his hand.
Page 101 - Next in importance to the divine profusion of water, light and air, those three great physical facts which render existence possible, may be reckoned the universal beneficence of grass.