The Mantle of Elijah: A Novel

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Harper & Brothers, 1900 - 456 pages
 

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Page 364 - O Friend! I know not which way I must look For comfort, being, as I am, opprest, To think that now our Life is only drest For show; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook, Or groom!— We must run glittering like a Brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest: The wealthiest man among us is the best: No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us.
Page 187 - Thy mandates make heroes assemble When Liberty's form stands in view; Thy banners make tyranny tremble When borne by the red, white and blue. When borne by the red, white and blue...
Page 300 - As Heaven and Earth are fairer, fairer far Than Chaos and blank Darkness, though once chiefs; And as we show beyond that Heaven and Earth In form and shape compact and beautiful, In will, in action free, companionship, And thousand other signs of purer life; So on our heels a fresh perfection treads, A power more strong in beauty, born of us And fated to excel us, as we pass In glory that old Darkness: nor are we Thereby more conquer'd, than by us the rule Of shapeless Chaos.
Page 186 - I have reason to believe that it is a very pleasant country to live in. I have heard that it is the pride of the ocean; the home of the brave and the free.
Page 5 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. 'But not the praise...
Page 183 - Rule, Britannia. Britannia rules the waves. Britons never — never — never — shall be slaves.
Page 116 - How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle ! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places. I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan : very pleasant hast thou been unto me : thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women. How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!
Page 119 - Then said Elijah unto the people, I, even I only, remain a prophet of the Lord ; but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men.
Page 161 - ... was capable. Magnetically her noble aspirations seemed instantly conveyed to my own bosom ; and though Charlie was reading about Lady Dedlock, a theme which at any other time would have absorbed my attention, " the beating of my own heart was the only sound I heard.
Page 118 - Jerusalem, they should beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks : nation should not lift up sword against nation, neither should they learn war any more :

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