The Living Age, Volume 269Living Age Company, 1911 |
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... David and Jeanie Deans than he is - to our mind at least - in the somewhat con- ventional figures of his tales of chiv- alry who , while placed in the twelfth century , converse in quasi - Elizabethan English . We have only to mention ...
... David and Jeanie Deans than he is - to our mind at least - in the somewhat con- ventional figures of his tales of chiv- alry who , while placed in the twelfth century , converse in quasi - Elizabethan English . We have only to mention ...
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... David spent a wakeful night . Even in the misery of captivity , in the dread of pursuit , in his narrow , storm - tossed berth at sea , he had managed to snatch spells of broken slumber ; but the first night spent under Miss ...
... David spent a wakeful night . Even in the misery of captivity , in the dread of pursuit , in his narrow , storm - tossed berth at sea , he had managed to snatch spells of broken slumber ; but the first night spent under Miss ...
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... David found some difficulty in nerving him- self to proceed . " I am afraid there'll only be the one Saturday , Miss Strickland , I find this here place is too far from Strange's . It ' ud take me half my time very near gettin ' back ...
... David found some difficulty in nerving him- self to proceed . " I am afraid there'll only be the one Saturday , Miss Strickland , I find this here place is too far from Strange's . It ' ud take me half my time very near gettin ' back ...
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... David's with a look of reproach which he could scarcely have withstood even if the older woman's appeal had not al- ready pierced him to the heart . " There , let's say nothin ' more about it , " he cried hastily . " I'll make shift to ...
... David's with a look of reproach which he could scarcely have withstood even if the older woman's appeal had not al- ready pierced him to the heart . " There , let's say nothin ' more about it , " he cried hastily . " I'll make shift to ...
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... David gave a little start of an- noyed surprise , and spoke roughly . " Did your husband often fill a pail for ' ee at thik well ? " " No , " said Martha shortly . " Then I don't see what need ye have to be spyin ' arter me , " he ...
... David gave a little start of an- noyed surprise , and spoke roughly . " Did your husband often fill a pail for ' ee at thik well ? " " No , " said Martha shortly . " Then I don't see what need ye have to be spyin ' arter me , " he ...
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Page 655 - tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners ; so that if we will plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
Page 88 - BEHOLD, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.
Page 80 - And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire...
Page 724 - Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed king ; The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputy elected by the Lord.
Page 306 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her, with timbrels, and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously : the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Page 276 - said the Traveller, Knocking on the moonlit door; And his horse in the silence champed the grasses Of the forest's ferny floor. And a bird flew up out of the turret, Above the Traveller's head: And he smote upon the door again a second time;
Page 655 - tis in ourselves that we are thus, or thus. Our bodies are our gardens ; to the which our wills are gardeners : so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce ; set hyssop, and weed up thyme ; supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many; either to have it steril with idleness, or manured with industry ; why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
Page 80 - For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand. 3 And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever.
Page 610 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder...
Page 188 - Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.