The Premier and the Painter: A Fantastic RomanceRand, McNally, 1896 - 502 pages |
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... leave the text untouched , in order not to write a different book . After all , one owes some reverence to one's dead youth . I need scarcely say anything here of the genesis of this satirical , political , and philosophical fantasia ...
... leave the text untouched , in order not to write a different book . After all , one owes some reverence to one's dead youth . I need scarcely say anything here of the genesis of this satirical , political , and philosophical fantasia ...
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... leaving the newspaper lad staring at him , and whistling contemplatively as he stared . Then muttering , " I've seen that mug afore , " he dropped the contempla- tive whistle , and resumed the ear - splitting business cry . " So Floppy ...
... leaving the newspaper lad staring at him , and whistling contemplatively as he stared . Then muttering , " I've seen that mug afore , " he dropped the contempla- tive whistle , and resumed the ear - splitting business cry . " So Floppy ...
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... leave the place , when loud cheers following the words " Mr. Chairman and gentle- men " made him pause . On the opposite side of the room , a plainly- dressed man had risen to address the assembly . The Premier rubbed his eyes . Was he ...
... leave the place , when loud cheers following the words " Mr. Chairman and gentle- men " made him pause . On the opposite side of the room , a plainly- dressed man had risen to address the assembly . The Premier rubbed his eyes . Was he ...
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... this room , that they have a rude habit of leaving directly we are assembled , and of going off to spend their evenings elsewhere . " ( Loud laughter . ) With these bantering words of introduction , the speaker entered WITH THE COGERS.
... this room , that they have a rude habit of leaving directly we are assembled , and of going off to spend their evenings elsewhere . " ( Loud laughter . ) With these bantering words of introduction , the speaker entered WITH THE COGERS.
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... leaving Jack to thread his way amid the throng like a man in a dream . Soon , to his delight , a whiff of hot , many - odoured air informed him that he was near home . He staggered through the crowd of customers in the shop and let ...
... leaving Jack to thread his way amid the throng like a man in a dream . Soon , to his delight , a whiff of hot , many - odoured air informed him that he was near home . He staggered through the crowd of customers in the shop and let ...
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Page 293 - A THING of beauty is a joy for ever : Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
Page 165 - Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in the heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth...
Page 72 - Two things there are, -which, the oftener and the more steadfastly we consider them, fill the mind with an ever new, an ever rising admiration and reverence ; — the STARRY HEAVEN above, the MORAL LAW ivithin.
Page 492 - Soles occidere et redire possunt: nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux, nox est perpetua una dormienda.
Page 396 - To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, As he is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me. I'll have grounds More relative than this: the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Page 239 - ... your feet: Love that should help you to live, Song that should spur you to soar. All things were nothing to give Once to have sense of you more, Touch you and taste of you, sweet, Think you and breathe you and live, Swept of your wings as they soar, Trodden by chance of your feet. I that have love and no more Give you but love of you, sweet: He that hath more, let him give; He that hath wings, let him soar; Mine is the heart at your feet Here, that must love you to live.
Page 17 - Thou little Child, yet glorious in the might Of heaven-born freedom on thy being's height, Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife? Full soon thy Soul shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life!
Page 43 - everywhere Two heads in council, two beside the hearth, Two in the tangled business of the world, Two in the liberal offices of life, Two plummets dropt for one to sound the abyss Of science, and the secrets of the mind...
Page 356 - The flowers that bloom in the spring, Tra la, Have nothing to do with the case.
Page 355 - one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.