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Page 49
... young , still very fair , and , with that , gentle and womanly . Her youth was , of course , not against her , for the faculty of command is hereditary ; and even if youth is a fault , the Lady Abbess made atonement in due course . For ...
... young , still very fair , and , with that , gentle and womanly . Her youth was , of course , not against her , for the faculty of command is hereditary ; and even if youth is a fault , the Lady Abbess made atonement in due course . For ...
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... young Abbess and the young Domherr . The candles that were brought in and set by them enveloped in their golden light the two noble , serious faces and the chessboard and chessmen of marvellous workmanship , and threw restless shadows ...
... young Abbess and the young Domherr . The candles that were brought in and set by them enveloped in their golden light the two noble , serious faces and the chessboard and chessmen of marvellous workmanship , and threw restless shadows ...
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... young man and shaking his shoulder , " it was a little joke , I say . " Heinrich Hesselbarth raised his head slowly and looked at the Worshipful Schultheiss . There was something in the young man's eye that brought home in a flash to ...
... young man and shaking his shoulder , " it was a little joke , I say . " Heinrich Hesselbarth raised his head slowly and looked at the Worshipful Schultheiss . There was something in the young man's eye that brought home in a flash to ...
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... young ladies been doing while we unpacked ? " he asked more cheerfully as he carved the pie that lay before him . " Have you found some likely subjects , Miss Doris ? " The girl withdrew her dreamy eyes from the landscape and accepted ...
... young ladies been doing while we unpacked ? " he asked more cheerfully as he carved the pie that lay before him . " Have you found some likely subjects , Miss Doris ? " The girl withdrew her dreamy eyes from the landscape and accepted ...
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... young gentleman asleep on top of it . " Mr. Lauriston's eye brightened involuntarily . " What did he look like ? " he asked . " Well , sir , I couldn't see ' m very plain , ' is ' at being all over ' is face , but he looked a very ...
... young gentleman asleep on top of it . " Mr. Lauriston's eye brightened involuntarily . " What did he look like ? " he asked . " Well , sir , I couldn't see ' m very plain , ' is ' at being all over ' is face , but he looked a very ...
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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.