The Living Age, Volumen272Living Age Company, 1912 |
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... turned to Helga . " In a few minutes , " he said , " we shall be man and wife . " " Only in the eyes of the law , " said she , " not really in your eyes and mine . " " Legally we shall be man and wife . You do understand that , Helga ...
... turned to Helga . " In a few minutes , " he said , " we shall be man and wife . " " Only in the eyes of the law , " said she , " not really in your eyes and mine . " " Legally we shall be man and wife . You do understand that , Helga ...
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... turned from him and passed through the shop doors . As for Helga it was her union with Clive and not her separation from him that nested like a singing bird in her happy heart . The thought of it turned everything golden . She walked ...
... turned from him and passed through the shop doors . As for Helga it was her union with Clive and not her separation from him that nested like a singing bird in her happy heart . The thought of it turned everything golden . She walked ...
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... turned back with her . She did not desire his company , but she could not tell him so without being downright rude . He was an amiable and , in some directions , an intelligent young man , but socially he was not quick in the up - take ...
... turned back with her . She did not desire his company , but she could not tell him so without being downright rude . He was an amiable and , in some directions , an intelligent young man , but socially he was not quick in the up - take ...
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... turned a little , waiting for the young people till they were abreast of him . He showed no surprise at see- ing them out together at such an hour of the evening , and Helga guessed from his slow , heavy walk , that he was too tired and ...
... turned a little , waiting for the young people till they were abreast of him . He showed no surprise at see- ing them out together at such an hour of the evening , and Helga guessed from his slow , heavy walk , that he was too tired and ...
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... turned writer à la mode , after having been the astute lackey who early in life defined with such cold - blooded cynicism the ideals of a servant : le métier de laquais est impossible , je l'avoue , pour un imbécile ; mais il a des ...
... turned writer à la mode , after having been the astute lackey who early in life defined with such cold - blooded cynicism the ideals of a servant : le métier de laquais est impossible , je l'avoue , pour un imbécile ; mais il a des ...
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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.