A Passage Perilous

Front Cover
Macmillan and Company, 1903 - 455 pages
 

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 463 - It would be hard to find better reading * * * the book is so varied, so full of color and life from end to end, that few who read the first two or three stories will lay it down till they have read the last...
Page 173 - Her bloom was like the springing flower, That sips the silver dew; The rose was budded in her cheek, Just opening to the view. But love had, like the canker-worm, Consumed her early prime; The rose grew pale, and left her cheek — She died before her time. Awake!
Page 457 - SCOTSMAN.—" A stirring tale." PILOT.—"The interest is never allowed to lag in ' The Firebrand.' and our attention is enthralled from start to finish by the march of events." SR CROCKETT Crown 8vo. Gilt top. Price 6s. THE DARK O' THE MOON Being Certain further Histories of the Folk called
Page 162 - MIRAGE. THE hope I dreamed of was a dream, Was but a dream ; and now I wake Exceeding comfortless, and worn, and old, For a dream's sake. I hang my harp upon a tree, A weeping willow in a lake ; I hang my silenced harp there, wrung and snapt For a dream's sake.
Page 153 - A political victory, a rise of rents, the recovery of your sick or the return of your absent friend, or some other favorable event raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing , can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace \. but the triumph of principles.
Page 318 - IF thou art blest, Then let the sunshine of thy gladness rest On the dark edges of each cloud that lies Black in thy brother's skies. If thou art sad, Still be thou in thy brother's gladness glad.
Page 108 - I pray you, speak not ; he grows worse and worse; Question enrages him : at once, good night : — Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once.
Page 78 - Moral force is then the vital point. And this force is only produced by moral force. Like alone acts upon like. Therefore do not amend by reasoning, but by example; approach feeling by feeling; do not hope to excite love except by love. Be what you wish others to become. Let yourself and not your words preach for you.
Page 141 - Because thou hast the power and own'st the grace To look through and behind this mask of me (Against which years have beat thus blanchingly With their rains), and behold my soul's true face, The dim and weary witness of life's race, Because thou hast the faith and love to see, Through that same soul's distracting lethargy, The patient angel waiting for a place In the new Heavens, — because...
Page 436 - ... separate whole, Should move his rounds, and fusing all The skirts of self again, should fall Remerging in the general Soul, Is faith as vague as all unsweet : Eternal form shall still divide The eternal soul from all beside; And I shall know him when we meet: And we shall sit at endless feast, Enjoying each the other's good : What vaster dream can hit the mood Of Love on earth ? He seeks at least Upon the last and sharpest height, Before the spirits fade away, Some landing-place, to clasp and...

Bibliographic information