The Fall of the CurtainA. L. Burt, 1901 - 410 pages |
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Page 27 - Unaffrighted by the silence round them, Undistracted by the sights they see, These demand not that the things without them Yield them love, amusement, sympathy.
Page 371 - In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
Page 346 - Hotly charged — and sank at last. Charge once more, then, and be dumb! Let the victors, when they come, When the forts of folly fall, Find thy body by the wall!
Page 240 - WILT thou have this man to thy wedded husband, " to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of matrimony? Wilt thou obey him, and serve him, love, honor, and keep him in sickness and in health ; and, forsaking all others, keep thee only unto him, so long as ye both shall live ? The Woman shall answer : I will.
Page 387 - Janice Meredith,' such is Maurice Thompson's superb American romance, 'Alice of Old Vincennes." It is, in addition, more artistic and spontaneous than any of its rivals.
Page 240 - To have and to hold for better for worse for richer for poorer in sickness and in health to love and to cherish.
Page 387 - Company, Indianapolis A VIVACIOUS ROMANCE OF REVOLUTIONARY DAYS ALICE of OLD VINCENNES By MAURICE THOMPSON The Atlanta Constitution says : " Mr. Thompson, whose delightful writings in prose and verse have made his reputation national, has achieved his master stroke of genius in this historical novel of revolutionary days in the West.
Page 391 - Mr. Goss writes with the truthfulness of light. He has told a story in which the fact of sin is illuminated with the utmost truthfulness and the fact of redemption is portrayed with extraordinary power. There are lines of greatness in the book which I shall never forget.
Page 27 - WEARY of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At this vessel's prow I stand, which bears me Forwards, forwards, o'er the starlit sea. And a look of passionate desire O'er the sea and to the stars I send: 'Ye who from my childhood up have calm'd me, Calm me, ah, compose me to the end! Ah, once more...
Page 393 - AS A NEW MINTAGE." THE PUPPET CROWN BY HAROLD MAcGRATH A princess rarely beautiful; a duchess magnificent and heartless; a villain revengeful and courageous; a hero youthful, humorous, fearless and truly American; — such are the principal characters of this delightful story.— Syracuse PostStandard. Harold MacGrath has attained the highest point achievable in recent fiction. We have the climax of romance and adventure in "The Puppet Crown.