The Living Age, Volume 269Living Age Company, 1911 |
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... a tolling bell Ring in another day . Be brave in thought - the fearless thought shall lead To the achievement of the fearless deed . Ella Fuller Maitland . However we may despise fiction , there is no doubt The Little Ghost , Etc.
... a tolling bell Ring in another day . Be brave in thought - the fearless thought shall lead To the achievement of the fearless deed . Ella Fuller Maitland . However we may despise fiction , there is no doubt The Little Ghost , Etc.
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... doubt that it often uncon- sciously fulfils purposes which no other form of writing , except perhaps diaries and familiar letters , can pretend to ful- fil . It gives us the atmosphere of an age or a generation , and it clothes the dry ...
... doubt that it often uncon- sciously fulfils purposes which no other form of writing , except perhaps diaries and familiar letters , can pretend to ful- fil . It gives us the atmosphere of an age or a generation , and it clothes the dry ...
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... doubt if the shy sensitive inmate of Peterhouse would have had very much to say to one of the rustics of Stoke Pogis if he had found himself in his company . Shenstone's delightful Schoolmistress and Goldsmith's Deserted Village some ...
... doubt if the shy sensitive inmate of Peterhouse would have had very much to say to one of the rustics of Stoke Pogis if he had found himself in his company . Shenstone's delightful Schoolmistress and Goldsmith's Deserted Village some ...
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... doubt that one of so kindly a nature , especially in her character of clergy- man's daughter , was " good to the poor . " But hardly ever in her pages is a poor man or woman sympathet- ically painted . The north of England fared better ...
... doubt that one of so kindly a nature , especially in her character of clergy- man's daughter , was " good to the poor . " But hardly ever in her pages is a poor man or woman sympathet- ically painted . The north of England fared better ...
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... doubt the passion of love , physical gratification of all kinds , the acquisition of wealth , or escape from danger . Consequently we find " love " described in the most realistic and of- ten most offensive way ; heroines who are ...
... doubt the passion of love , physical gratification of all kinds , the acquisition of wealth , or escape from danger . Consequently we find " love " described in the most realistic and of- ten most offensive way ; heroines who are ...
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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.