The Living Age, Volum 225Living Age Company, 1900 |
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Pàgina 17
... poor once , how rich now ! I thought over my old Christmas Eves - how cold , how gloomy , how cheerless ! On one of them I got myself drunk on punch ; that was the most hateful Christmas Eve of all . On most of them , however , I sat ...
... poor once , how rich now ! I thought over my old Christmas Eves - how cold , how gloomy , how cheerless ! On one of them I got myself drunk on punch ; that was the most hateful Christmas Eve of all . On most of them , however , I sat ...
Pàgina 19
... poor little woman . " Come , Grete , be courageous ! " cried my mother - in - law ; " water - cologne- a doctor ! " And Gretchen , all of a tremble , hurried to the table on which the child had been placed ; with un- steady hands she ...
... poor little woman . " Come , Grete , be courageous ! " cried my mother - in - law ; " water - cologne- a doctor ! " And Gretchen , all of a tremble , hurried to the table on which the child had been placed ; with un- steady hands she ...
Pàgina 55
... poor tenement , the judicial rent is no more than the cabins are worth . It is a life of little ease and no comfort ; they look forward to marrying their eldest son , by the matchmaker's aid , to a girl with a dow- ry , and then living ...
... poor tenement , the judicial rent is no more than the cabins are worth . It is a life of little ease and no comfort ; they look forward to marrying their eldest son , by the matchmaker's aid , to a girl with a dow- ry , and then living ...
Pàgina 57
... poor alike ; it can punish and re- ward with eternal penalties and eternal gifts ; it is the greatest power below the sky , and uses its strength unmercifully . On Sunday mornings the little groups coming from the Protestant Church ...
... poor alike ; it can punish and re- ward with eternal penalties and eternal gifts ; it is the greatest power below the sky , and uses its strength unmercifully . On Sunday mornings the little groups coming from the Protestant Church ...
Pàgina 58
... poor and tending the sick , there are no matins and evensong to at- tend , and they have to fail back on themselves . Certain pastimes are in vogue from time to time . At present hockey and golf lighten the weary path , lawn - tennis ...
... poor and tending the sick , there are no matins and evensong to at- tend , and they have to fail back on themselves . Certain pastimes are in vogue from time to time . At present hockey and golf lighten the weary path , lawn - tennis ...
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Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
Frases i termes més freqüents
admiration Afrikaners Alce artist asked beautiful better Boer Bridlington Bucklands called church color Croydon daugh doubt Emily Brontë England English eyes face fact feeling Finland flowers France French garden German give hand head heard heart hour human interest Joanie John John England John Morgan lady Ladysmith land less light LIVING AGE London look Lord Lord Salisbury Marholm master of Bucklands ment mind moral morning nature ness never night officers once passed Penelope perhaps Persia person play present question railway river round Ruskin Russia seemed seen sense side sion soul South Africa spirit stood story Sweetlips tain teleology tell thing thought tion town truth ture turned Tuscan village whole woman women words write young
Passatges populars
Pàgina 43 - Fair daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon; As yet the early rising sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along.
Pàgina 321 - So much they scorn the crowd, that if the throng By chance go right, they purposely go wrong; So schismatics the plain believers quit, And are but damn'd for having too much wit.
Pàgina 301 - My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof!
Pàgina 81 - Of bagpipers on distant Highland hills. The Shepherd, at such warning, of his flock Bethought him, and he to himself would say 'The winds are now devising work for me!
Pàgina 554 - We breakfast commonly between eight and nine; till eleven, we read either the Scripture, or the sermons of some faithful preacher of those holy mysteries; at eleven we attend divine service, which is performed here twice every day; and from twelve to three we separate and amuse ourselves as we please. During that interval I either read in my own apartment, or walk, or ride, or work in the garden.
Pàgina 556 - Then shakes his powdered coat, and barks for joy. Heedless of all his pranks, the sturdy churl Moves right toward the mark ; nor stops for aught But now and then with pressure of his thumb To adjust the fragrant charge of a short tube, That fumes beneath his nose : the trailing cloud Streams far behind him, scenting all the air.
Pàgina 493 - We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves. Nash, a poet, poor enough (as poets used to be), seeing an alderman with his gold chain, upon his great horse, by way of scorn said to one of his companions, " Do you see yon fellow, how goodly, how big he looks ? Why, that fellow cannot make a blank verse!
Pàgina 667 - Marlow was not typical (if his propensity to spin yarns be excepted), and to him the meaning of an episode was not inside like a kernel but outside, enveloping the tale which brought it out only as a glow brings out a haze...
Pàgina 244 - The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand : repent ye, and believe in the gospel.
Pàgina 255 - Eurus and Auster, and the dreadful force Of Boreas, that congeals the Cronian waves, Tumultuous enter with dire chilling blasts, Portending agues. Thus a well-fraught ship, Long sail'd secure, or through th...