Stray Leaves: By Herbert Paul

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J. Lane, 1906 - 307 頁

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第 90 頁 - That people was the Greek. Except the blind forces of Nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin.
第 54 頁 - The appearance, instantaneously disclosed, Was 'of a mighty city — boldly say A wilderness of building, sinking far And self-withdrawn into a boundless depth Far sinking into splendour— without end ! Fabric it seemed of diamond and of gold, With alabaster domes, and silver spires, And blazing terrace upon terrace, high Uplifted ; here, serene pavilions bright, In avenues disposed ; there, towers begirt With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars— illumination of all gems...
第 43 頁 - Depend upon it, you would gain unspeakably if you would learn with me to see some of the poetry and the pathos, the tragedy and the comedy, lying in the experience of a human soul that looks out through dull grey eyes, and that speaks in a voice of quite ordinary tones.
第 94 頁 - Valley" will not bear a comparison with the " Hall of Eblis." BRIDE OF ABYDOS, A TURKISH TALE. " Hart we never loved so kindly, " Had we never loved so blindly, " Never met or never parted, " We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
第 106 頁 - God, and the edification of my fellow creatures ; but the wit and genius of those old heathens beguiled me, and as I despaired of raising myself up to their standard, upon fair ground, I thought the only chance I had of looking over their heads was to get upon their shoulders.
第 44 頁 - But we insignificant people with our daily words and acts are preparing the lives of many Dorotheas, some of which may present a far sadder sacrifice than that of the Dorothea whose story we know.
第 44 頁 - ... gives him the hope that his friend will never know. Let him forsake a decent craft that he may pursue the gentilities of a profession to which nature never called him, and his religion will infallibly be the worship of blessed Chance, which he will believe in as the mighty creator of success. The evil principle deprecated in that religion, is the orderly sequence by which the seed brings forth a crop after its kind.
第 124 頁 - Thou shalt not make to thyself any likeness of anything that is in the heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth.
第 105 頁 - And rest upon earth comes never. But if any far-off state there be, Dearer than life to mortality ; The hand of the Dark hath hold thereof, And mist is under and mist above. And so we are sick for life, and cling On earth to this nameless and shining thing. For other life is a fountain sealed, And the deeps below us are unrevealed, And we drift on legends for ever ! [PHAEDRA during this has been laid on her couch she speaks to the handmaids.

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