Ingalls of Kansas: A Character StudyThe author, 1909 - 232 pages |
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... rain or snow . The few past days have been like a reminiscence or prophecy of spring , as if Nature were in a penitential mood , making reparation for past transgressions , or were furtively preparing for new depredations . Yesterday ...
... rain or snow . The few past days have been like a reminiscence or prophecy of spring , as if Nature were in a penitential mood , making reparation for past transgressions , or were furtively preparing for new depredations . Yesterday ...
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... rain and snow and heat like the bony forehead of an aged hermit . It was overhung by the branches and vines of a forest just touched with the verdure of April , and in the crevices of the cliff nodded precarious flowers in the soft sun ...
... rain and snow and heat like the bony forehead of an aged hermit . It was overhung by the branches and vines of a forest just touched with the verdure of April , and in the crevices of the cliff nodded precarious flowers in the soft sun ...
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... rain of negroes blowing " harmonicums " at night , minor chords and nocturnes on a piano with low notes and plenty of pedal for vibration lingering on the sense : a bell faintly ringing beyond a for- est such things sometimes move me ...
... rain of negroes blowing " harmonicums " at night , minor chords and nocturnes on a piano with low notes and plenty of pedal for vibration lingering on the sense : a bell faintly ringing beyond a for- est such things sometimes move me ...
Page 53
... rain- bow and the rose : many conditions immediately about and around and within , that we do not perceive , any more than my horse understands history and arithmetic , or the fish swimming in the ocean comprehends the great steamships ...
... rain- bow and the rose : many conditions immediately about and around and within , that we do not perceive , any more than my horse understands history and arithmetic , or the fish swimming in the ocean comprehends the great steamships ...
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... rain : In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble , And the strong men shall bow themselves , And the grinders cease because they are few , And those that look out of the windows be darkened , And the doors shall be shut in ...
... rain : In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble , And the strong men shall bow themselves , And the grinders cease because they are few , And those that look out of the windows be darkened , And the doors shall be shut in ...
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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.