The Living Age, Volume 253Living Age Company, 1907 |
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Page 27
... father and herself . He refuses to suck the breasts of the Egyptian women , and his sister , offering to find a Hebrew nurse , brings their own mother . One day when grown up he finds an Egyptian misusing an Israelite and kills him ...
... father and herself . He refuses to suck the breasts of the Egyptian women , and his sister , offering to find a Hebrew nurse , brings their own mother . One day when grown up he finds an Egyptian misusing an Israelite and kills him ...
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... father's son , And all the unlawful issue , that their lust Since then hath made between them . The picture was a splendid example of stage management , and , as one of a series of Shakespearian tableaux vivants , would be worthy of all ...
... father's son , And all the unlawful issue , that their lust Since then hath made between them . The picture was a splendid example of stage management , and , as one of a series of Shakespearian tableaux vivants , would be worthy of all ...
Page 46
... father wrote to his wife a letter marked by blots and erasures , that spoke his anguish of mind . " My sufferings are now arrived at the highest pitch of Misery . Our dearest Lavinia is taken away from me , the only prop I had left ...
... father wrote to his wife a letter marked by blots and erasures , that spoke his anguish of mind . " My sufferings are now arrived at the highest pitch of Misery . Our dearest Lavinia is taken away from me , the only prop I had left ...
Page 55
... father . " You know ; you have seen the pictures . Oh , it is . . . it is . . . " Then suddenly the grim meaning of the situation dawned on his fevered understanding . " Klärchen , love , what have I done ? " he cried . And he whimpered ...
... father . " You know ; you have seen the pictures . Oh , it is . . . it is . . . " Then suddenly the grim meaning of the situation dawned on his fevered understanding . " Klärchen , love , what have I done ? " he cried . And he whimpered ...
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... father , in 1579 , failed to bring him the moderate assistance he needed . Nine years later , in an unlucky hour , he made the acquaintance of Essex . Essex , then not quite twenty - one , was at the beginning of his meteorlike career ...
... father , in 1579 , failed to bring him the moderate assistance he needed . Nine years later , in an unlucky hour , he made the acquaintance of Essex . Essex , then not quite twenty - one , was at the beginning of his meteorlike career ...
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Page 550 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 21 - Spanish sailors with bearded lips, And the beauty and mystery of the ships, And the magic of the sea. And the voice of that wayward song Is singing and saying still: ' A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
Page 32 - Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts ; Into a thousand parts divide one man, And make imaginary puissance ; Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i...
Page 134 - That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it.
Page 702 - Commons; and all bills for the granting of any such aids and supplies ought to begin with the Commons; and that it is the undoubted and sole right of the Commons to direct, limit and appoint in such bills, the ends, purposes, considerations, conditions, limitations, and qualifications of such grants which ought not to be changed or altered by the House of Lords...
Page 410 - To mind the inside of a book is to entertain one's self with the forced product of another man's brain. Now I think a man of quality and breeding may be much amused with the natural sprouts of his own.
Page 32 - O pardon ! since a crooked figure may Attest in little place a million, And let us, ciphers to this great accompt, On your imaginary forces work.
Page 650 - Come, rest in this bosom, my own stricken deer, Though the herd have fled from thee, thy home is still here; Here still is the smile, that no cloud can o'ercast, And a heart and a hand all thy own to the last. Oh! what was love made for, if 'tis not the same Through joy and through torment, through glory and shame? I know not, I ask not, if guilt's in that heart, I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art. Thou hast...
Page 288 - The satirist" may laugh, the philosopher may preach, but Reason herself will respect the prejudices and habits which have been consecrated by the experience of mankind.
Page 361 - What then is man ! What then is man ! He endures but for an hour, and is crushed before the moth. Yet in the being and in the working of a faithful man is there already (as all faith from the beginning gives assurance) a something that pertains not to this wild death-element of Time ; that triumphs over Time, and is, and will be, when Time shall be no more.