The Living Age, Volumen272Living Age Company, 1912 |
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... better than the one so plainness is better than the other . The high finish of machinery often has a real beauty of its own so long as it makes no pretence to be what it is not . In Bond - street one may see silver cigarette cases ...
... better than the one so plainness is better than the other . The high finish of machinery often has a real beauty of its own so long as it makes no pretence to be what it is not . In Bond - street one may see silver cigarette cases ...
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... better that they should be cursing their Creator in the days of their middle - age - for a couple of hours - than plotting against man created in His image . Golf - benefi- cent golf - does withdraw them tempo- rarily from that . Curses ...
... better that they should be cursing their Creator in the days of their middle - age - for a couple of hours - than plotting against man created in His image . Golf - benefi- cent golf - does withdraw them tempo- rarily from that . Curses ...
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... better ! " The Eye - Witness . If Is this incredible ? Nothing is in- credible when young men take up a game designed for fat - bellied age . you find it difficult to believe , go down to any metropolitan railway station- say Waterloo ...
... better ! " The Eye - Witness . If Is this incredible ? Nothing is in- credible when young men take up a game designed for fat - bellied age . you find it difficult to believe , go down to any metropolitan railway station- say Waterloo ...
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... better And sure to find again the long lost knack , Expected hour by hour some thankful letter ; And then I met Miss Thompson in the street , And unsuspectingly took off my bowler , I think I never saw a face so sweet Look quite so ...
... better And sure to find again the long lost knack , Expected hour by hour some thankful letter ; And then I met Miss Thompson in the street , And unsuspectingly took off my bowler , I think I never saw a face so sweet Look quite so ...
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... better . He was more than once horsewhipped in the streets of New York . But that did little good . Ben- nett's reply was to bring out a flam- ing " extra " with a full account of the incident written in his own pungent English . The ...
... better . He was more than once horsewhipped in the streets of New York . But that did little good . Ben- nett's reply was to bring out a flam- ing " extra " with a full account of the incident written in his own pungent English . The ...
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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.