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Page 301
... Gloriana was poising pensively on the grass ridge which the cart ruts had left in the road , her eyes de- murely on the ground . Her pose made me nervous , because she seemed to be looking at my boots . Great dabs of mud lay on them ...
... Gloriana was poising pensively on the grass ridge which the cart ruts had left in the road , her eyes de- murely on the ground . Her pose made me nervous , because she seemed to be looking at my boots . Great dabs of mud lay on them ...
Page 302
... Gloriana ; Miss Gloriana , George . " The fair débutante gave a cordial hand - grasp - I like that — and we two were acquainted in half an hour . If Hartley would only have kept out of the way ! But , instead of this , he was ...
... Gloriana ; Miss Gloriana , George . " The fair débutante gave a cordial hand - grasp - I like that — and we two were acquainted in half an hour . If Hartley would only have kept out of the way ! But , instead of this , he was ...
Page 303
... Gloriana , by all means . " “ Miss Gloriana , would not you like to take a walk ? " " Is it not too hot ? " " Believe me , no ; it is quite cool . " " Very well - yes . " So we went also , only in an opposite direction . I hope Hartley ...
... Gloriana , by all means . " “ Miss Gloriana , would not you like to take a walk ? " " Is it not too hot ? " " Believe me , no ; it is quite cool . " " Very well - yes . " So we went also , only in an opposite direction . I hope Hartley ...
Page 304
... Gloriana laughed merrily . " Ah ! " and very naturally I joined in the laughter , as the recollec- tion of the apparition of the stage came more distinctly to my mind . " All the better , then ( it is human to fib ) . He will make one ...
... Gloriana laughed merrily . " Ah ! " and very naturally I joined in the laughter , as the recollec- tion of the apparition of the stage came more distinctly to my mind . " All the better , then ( it is human to fib ) . He will make one ...
Page 305
... Gloriana , we had lived , breathed , and had our being among the hills , along the trouting - brooks , and out in the deep- sea fishing - grounds . It was emphatically jolly , and I had begun to feel fairly sentimental when news came ...
... Gloriana , we had lived , breathed , and had our being among the hills , along the trouting - brooks , and out in the deep- sea fishing - grounds . It was emphatically jolly , and I had begun to feel fairly sentimental when news came ...
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Page 182 - From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never ; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
Page 388 - Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness...
Page 11 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope ; to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Page 378 - And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays : Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten ; Every clod feels a stir of might. An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And, groping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers...
Page 532 - One cried, God bless us ! and, Amen, the other ; As they had seen me, with these hangman's hands, Listening their fear. I could not say, amen, When they did say, God bless us.
Page 453 - I will tell you: it is the devil. He is the most diligent preacher of all other; he is never out of his diocese...
Page 419 - In my mind, he was guilty of no error, he was chargeable with no exaggeration, he was betrayed by his fancy into no metaphor, who once said, that all we see about us, Kings, Lords, and Commons, the whole machinery of the state, all the apparatus of the system, and its varied workings, end in simply bringing twelve good men into a box.
Page 6 - It is allowed on all hands, that the primitive way of breaking eggs before we eat them, was upon the larger end: but his present Majesty's grandfather, while he was a boy, going to eat an egg, and breaking it according to the ancient practice, happened to cut one of his fingers.
Page 9 - And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail ; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass. And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target of brass between his shoulders.
Page 298 - There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul...