Thackeray's Henry EsmondAmerican Book Company, 1908 - 553 頁 |
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第 66 頁 - Papa could not hear me, and would play with me no more, for they were going to put him under ground, whence he could never come to us again.
第 302 頁 - Magdalene once had there, were kneeling at the same stall, and hearing the same hymns and prayers in which her stricken heart had found consolation. Might she sleep in peace — might she sleep in peace ; and we too when our struggles and pains are over ! But the earth is the Lord's, as the heaven is ; we are alike His creatures here and yonder. I took a little flower off the hillock and kissed it, and went my way, like the bird that had just lighted on the cross by me, back into the world again....
第 228 頁 - Do you know what day it is?" she continued. "It is the 29th of December - it is your birthday! But last year we did not drink it - no, no. My Lord was cold, and my Harry was likely to die: and my brain was in a fever; and we had no wine. But now - now you are come again, bringing your sheaves with you, my dear.
第 278 頁 - Twas then great Marlborough's mighty soul was proved, That, in the shock of charging hosts unmoved, Amidst confusion, horror, and despair, Examined all the dreadful scenes of war: In peaceful thought the field of death surveyed, To fainting squadrons sent the timely aid, Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage.
第 519 頁 - Lero, lero, lilliburlero," that made an impression on the [King's] army, that cannot be imagined by those that saw it not. The whole army, and at last the people, both in city and country, were singing it perpetually. And perhaps never had so slight a thing so great an effect.
第 255 頁 - I have said, this of the god-like in him, that he could see a hero perish or a sparrow fall, with the same amount of sympathy for either.
第 228 頁 - And to-day, Henry, in the anthem, when they sang it, - When the Lord turned the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream,' I thought, yes, like them that dream — them that dream.
第 232 頁 - She was a brown beauty; that is, her eyes, hair, and eyebrows and eyelashes were dark, her hair curling with rich undulations and waving over her shoulders; but her complexion was as dazzling white as snow in sunshine, except her cheeks which were a bright red, and her lips which were of a still deeper crimson. Her mouth and chin, they said, were too large and full ; and so they might be for a goddess in marble, but not for a woman whose eyes were fire, whose look was love, whose voice was the sweetest...
第 516 頁 - Vatican or in persuading naked barbarians in the southern hemisphere not to eat each other, were matters which he left with profound submission to the decision of others. If he was wanted at Lima he was on the Atlantic in the next fleet. If he was wanted at Bagdad he was toiling through the desert with the next caravan. If his ministry was needed in some country where his life was more insecure than that of a wolf, where it was a crime to...
第 510 頁 - Sure, love vincit omnia; is immeasurably above all ambition, more precious than wealth, more noble than name. He knows not life who knows not that: he hath not felt the highest faculty of the soul who hath not enjoyed it. In the name of my wife I write the completion of hope, and the summit of happiness. To have such a love is the one blessing, in comparison of which all earthly joy is of no value; and to think of her, is to praise God.