By the Christmas FireHoughton Mifflin, 1908 - 225 pàgines |
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Frases i termes més freqüents
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 183 - If Thou be one whose heart the holy forms Of young imagination have kept pure, Stranger! henceforth be warned; and know that pride, Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness ; that he who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used ; that thought with him Is in its infancy.
Pàgina 36 - Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be.
Pàgina 9 - Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest : is it better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel...
Pàgina 185 - Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine ; I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.
Pàgina 46 - In the bright lexicon of youth there is no such word as "fail," but the dictionary makes up for this deficiency.
Pàgina 18 - Or a terrible sound of stones cast down, or a running that could not be seen of skipping beasts, or a roaring voice of most savage wild beasts, or a rebounding echo from the hollow mountains; these things made them to swoon for fear.
Pàgina 11 - And the children of Dan went their way: and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back unto his house.
Pàgina 35 - I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Pàgina 8 - Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that were therein, how they dwelt...
Pàgina 112 - Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.