Medieval stories. History of music. Conduct of life

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Delphian Society, 1913

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Página 17 - I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.
Página 493 - And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame; And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame, But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star, Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They are!
Página 493 - When Earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colors have faded, and the youngest critic has died, We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it — lie down for an aeon or two, Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall set us to work anew! "And those that were good shall be happy; they shall sit in a golden chair; They shall splash at a ten-league canvas with brushes of comets...
Página 248 - A safe stronghold our God is still, A trusty shield and weapon ; He'll help us clear from all the ill That hath us now o'ertaken. The ancient Prince of Hell Hath risen with purpose fell ; Strong mail of Craft and Power He weareth in this hour, On Earth is not his fellow.
Página 448 - Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.
Página 448 - ... and cast aside. The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen, if the eye is too near.
Página 401 - This flapper is likewise employed diligently to attend his master in his walks, and upon occasion to give him a soft flap on his eyes ; because he is always so wrapped up in cogitation, that he is in manifest danger of falling down every precipice and bouncing his head against every post, and in the streets, of jostling others, or being jostled himself, into the kennel.
Página 448 - Leave this touching and clawing. Let him be to me a spirit. A message, a thought, a sincerity, a glance from him, I want, but not news nor pottage. I can get politics, and chat, and neighborly conveniences, from cheaper companions. Should not the society of my friend be to me poetic, pure, universal, and great as nature itself?
Página 483 - The year's at the spring And day's at the morn ; Morning's at seven; The hillside's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn : God's in his heaven — All's right with the world!
Página 84 - Night, the army stole away to Chippenham, and overran the land of the West Saxons, and sat down there; and many of the people they drove beyond sea, and of the remainder the greater part they subdued and forced to obey them, except King Alfred: and he, with a small band, with difficulty retreated to the woods and to the fastnesses of the moors.

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