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Page 106
... manner of evil against ; whom she had publicly said was not fit to be any honest man's wife . " God forgive me ! " she murmured , " and grant that I may live to recall my words . " And then a dread would come , - what if they had not ...
... manner of evil against ; whom she had publicly said was not fit to be any honest man's wife . " God forgive me ! " she murmured , " and grant that I may live to recall my words . " And then a dread would come , - what if they had not ...
Page 118
... manners , and how she touches everything ! Now did you see that ? What a wonderful child ! Every movement is grace and ... manner , and leisurely , per- ceiving no cause to rush through rushes , and knowing that his sister was often too ...
... manners , and how she touches everything ! Now did you see that ? What a wonderful child ! Every movement is grace and ... manner , and leisurely , per- ceiving no cause to rush through rushes , and knowing that his sister was often too ...
Page 131
... manner which belongs essentially to the idiom of the Greek language . A mere " scholarly rendering , " in such a case , is no more a true copy of the original than a heap of Ionic columns is an Ionic tem- ple . On the other hand , all ...
... manner which belongs essentially to the idiom of the Greek language . A mere " scholarly rendering , " in such a case , is no more a true copy of the original than a heap of Ionic columns is an Ionic tem- ple . On the other hand , all ...
Page 132
... manner rules as well as circles , " i.e. in each case alike he uses the divine to the ex- clusion of the human . Polit . , 273 Α . ἀρχῆς τε καὶ τελευτῆς ἐναντίαν ópum opuεoεiç , " having received an opposite im- pulse at both ends ...
... manner rules as well as circles , " i.e. in each case alike he uses the divine to the ex- clusion of the human . Polit . , 273 Α . ἀρχῆς τε καὶ τελευτῆς ἐναντίαν ópum opuεoεiç , " having received an opposite im- pulse at both ends ...
Page 133
... manner to Socra- tes as the fitting protagonist in the new cycle of dramas . The older philosophies , he tells us , delivered their wisdom in a somewhat oracular form ; " they went on their several ways with a good deal of dis- dain of ...
... manner to Socra- tes as the fitting protagonist in the new cycle of dramas . The older philosophies , he tells us , delivered their wisdom in a somewhat oracular form ; " they went on their several ways with a good deal of dis- dain of ...
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Page 284 - Like the vase, in which roses have once been distilled — You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will. But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Page 71 - The other shape, — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either, — black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 68 - A nun demure of lowly port; Or sprightly maiden, of Love's court, In thy simplicity the sport Of all temptations; A queen in crown of rubies drest ; A starveling in a scanty vest; Are all, as seems to suit thee best, Thy appellations.
Page 256 - Strange to think by the way, Whatever there is to know, That shall we know one day.
Page 408 - He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.
Page 408 - To rescue Israel from the Roman yoke ; Then to subdue and quell, o'er all the earth, Brute violence and proud tyrannic power, Till truth were freed, and equity restored...
Page 68 - To every natural form, rock, fruit, or flower, Even the loose stones that cover the highway, I gave a moral life : I saw them feel, Or linked them to some feeling : the great mass Lay bedded in a quickening soul, and all That I beheld respired with inward meaning.
Page 69 - Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Page 73 - By the mercy of God, I am already come within twenty years of his number, a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine.
Page 5 - He traversed the desert of Arabia with a timorous retinue of women and children ; but as he approached the confines of Irak he was alarmed by the solitary or hostile face of the country, and suspected either the defection or ruin of his party. His fears were just: Obeidollah, the governor of Cufa, had...