Spare Hours, by John BrownHoughton, Mifflin, 1882 - 458 pàgines |
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Pàgina 18
... when we can't think , as Rab couldn't , we were immediately to blame ? It is , as the old worthy says , something to trust our God in the dark , as the dog does his . A dear and wise and exquisite child , drew a 18 PREFACE .
... when we can't think , as Rab couldn't , we were immediately to blame ? It is , as the old worthy says , something to trust our God in the dark , as the dog does his . A dear and wise and exquisite child , drew a 18 PREFACE .
Pàgina 26
... darkness ; the strap across his mouth tense as a bowstring ; his whole frame stiff with indig nation and surprise ; his roar asking us all round , “ Did you ever see the like of this ? " He looked a statue of anger and astonishment ...
... darkness ; the strap across his mouth tense as a bowstring ; his whole frame stiff with indig nation and surprise ; his roar asking us all round , “ Did you ever see the like of this ? " He looked a statue of anger and astonishment ...
Pàgina 28
... dark - gray eyes eyes such as one sees only twice or thrice in a lifetime , full of suffering , 1 It is not easy giving this look by one word ; it was expressive of her being so much of her life alone . full also of the overcoming of it ...
... dark - gray eyes eyes such as one sees only twice or thrice in a lifetime , full of suffering , 1 It is not easy giving this look by one word ; it was expressive of her being so much of her life alone . full also of the overcoming of it ...
Pàgina 30
... darkness . His head was scarred with the records of old wounds , a sort of series of fields of battle all over it ; one eye out , one ear cropped as close as was Archbishop Leighton's father's ; the re- maining eye had the power of two ...
... darkness . His head was scarred with the records of old wounds , a sort of series of fields of battle all over it ; one eye out , one ear cropped as close as was Archbishop Leighton's father's ; the re- maining eye had the power of two ...
Pàgina 33
... darkness , fixed on her . As before , they spoke little . Rab behaved well , never moving , showing us how meek and gentle he could be , and occasionally , in his sleep , letting us know that he was demolishing some 3 RAB AND HIS ...
... darkness , fixed on her . As before , they spoke little . Rab behaved well , never moving , showing us how meek and gentle he could be , and occasionally , in his sleep , letting us know that he was demolishing some 3 RAB AND HIS ...
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Pàgina 210 - God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked: that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Pàgina 170 - God gives us love. Something to love He lends us ; but, when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone.
Pàgina 184 - But when they knew that he was a Jew, all with one voice about the space of two hours cried out, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
Pàgina 244 - Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. O well for the fisherman's boy, That he shouts with his sister at play!
Pàgina 283 - Behold, I stand at the door, and knock : if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and sup with him, and he with me.
Pàgina 246 - One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.
Pàgina 210 - And the eye cannot say unto the hand, "I have no need of thee:" nor again the head to the feet, "I have no need of you.
Pàgina 364 - Action is transitory — a step, a blow. The motion of a muscle — this way or that — 'Tis done, and in the after-vacancy We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed : Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
Pàgina 349 - Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Pàgina 203 - And he wrote in the letter, saying, "Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.