The Living Age, Volumen272Living Age Company, 1912 |
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... head , and Switzerland was where he meant to go for a wedding - journey . He asked Helga if she agreed with him , and whether she thought the Oberland or the Engadine would be most at- tractive . " I would rather go to India , " said ...
... head , and Switzerland was where he meant to go for a wedding - journey . He asked Helga if she agreed with him , and whether she thought the Oberland or the Engadine would be most at- tractive . " I would rather go to India , " said ...
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... head or his hands , and wandered about the city making inquiries ; but everybody appeared to be particularly satisfied with the peo- ple whom they employed already , and did not consider themselves justified in taking on an extra hand ...
... head or his hands , and wandered about the city making inquiries ; but everybody appeared to be particularly satisfied with the peo- ple whom they employed already , and did not consider themselves justified in taking on an extra hand ...
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... head triumphantly till the tail came off , and the body and head flew bounce over to the other side of the table d'hôte room . Then only did I perceive that I was not alone , but that a party was at breakfast in a recess . Happily for ...
... head triumphantly till the tail came off , and the body and head flew bounce over to the other side of the table d'hôte room . Then only did I perceive that I was not alone , but that a party was at breakfast in a recess . Happily for ...
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... head , So we have mewed him in our topmost garret , - " That was ( in substance ) what Miss Thompson said About her parrot . And I , in part from friendliness with her , In part from anguish for the poor brute's sorrow , Said , " I will ...
... head , So we have mewed him in our topmost garret , - " That was ( in substance ) what Miss Thompson said About her parrot . And I , in part from friendliness with her , In part from anguish for the poor brute's sorrow , Said , " I will ...
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... head full of brave adventures in remote romantic lands . If you had been left to your- self you would have been happy , be- lieving , without any reason but with a sustaining hope , that your own flight into some such golden world would ...
... head full of brave adventures in remote romantic lands . If you had been left to your- self you would have been happy , be- lieving , without any reason but with a sustaining hope , that your own flight into some such golden world would ...
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Página 194 - While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands ; He nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor called the gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless right, But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed.
Página 477 - And she brought forth her first-born son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
Página 189 - He asked water, and she gave him milk; She brought forth butter in a lordly dish. She put her hand to the nail, And her right hand to the workman's hammer; And with the hammer she smote Sisera, She smote off his head, When she had pierced and stricken through his temples. At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: At her feet he bowed, he fell: Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
Página 189 - The mother of Sisera looked out at a window and cried through the lattice Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
Página 652 - Now was I come up in Spirit through the flaming sword, into the paradise of God. All things were new; and all the creation gave another smell unto me than before, beyond what words can utter.
Página 189 - I shall see him, but not now ; I shall behold him, but not nigh : there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.
Página 193 - Take the cloak from his face, and at first Let the corpse do its worst. How he lies in his rights of a man ! Death has done all death can. And absorbed in the new life he leads, He recks not, he heeds Nor his wrong nor my vengeance — both strike On his senses alike, And are lost in the solemn and strange Surprise of the change. Ha, what avails death to erase His offence, my disgrace? I would we were boys as of old In the field, by the fold— His outrage, God's patience, man's scorn Were so easily...
Página 275 - ... own. The lady in question, at all events, with her slightly Michaelangelesque squareness, her eyes of other days, her full lips, her long neck, her recorded jewels, her brocaded and wasted reds, was a very great personage — only unaccompanied by a joy. And she was dead, dead, dead. Milly recognised her exactly in words that had nothing to do with her. " I shall never be better than this.
Página 189 - Curst be the heart that thought the thought, And curst the hand that fired the shot, When in my arms burd Helen dropt, And died to succour me ! O think na ye my heart was sair When my Love dropt down and spak nae mair ! There did she swoon wi' meikle care On fair Kirconnell lea.
Página 194 - A SLUMBER did my spirit seal ; I had no human fears : She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years. No motion has she now, no force ; She neither hears nor sees ; Rolled round in earth's diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, and trees.