Played Out: A Novel, Том 1

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Chapman and Hall, 1866

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Страница 219 - Shall I ask the brave soldier, who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree? Shall I give up the friend I have valued and tried, If he kneel not before the same altar with me ? From the heretic girl of my soul should I fly, To seek somewhere else a more orthodox kiss ? No ! perish the hearts, and the laws that try Truth, valour, or love, by a standard like this...
Страница 36 - Oh, well for him whose will is strong ! He suffers, but he will not suffer long; He suffers, but he cannot suffer wrong: For him nor moves the loud world's random mock, Nor all calamity's hugest waves confound, Who seems a promontory of rock, 'I li.-ii. compassed round with turbulent sound, In middle ocean meets the surging shock, Tempest-buffeted, citadel-crown'd.
Страница 181 - Death is the end of life ; ah, why Should life all labour be ? Let us alone. Time driveth onward fast, And in a little while our lips are dumb. Let us alone. What is it that will last ? All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful Past.
Страница 10 - ... either side of the fireplace were occupied with broad shelves, and these were filled with books — original editions most of them, of the standard modern novelists. An independent oak book-stand, placed within reach of the one armchair in the room, might be supposed to contain the more special favourites of that room's occupant, and there Fielding and Smollett, Wycherly and Ben Jonson, Spenser and Sidney, Bon Gaultier, Bacon, Addison, Ingoldsby, and a host of other wits, poets, essayists, dramatists,...
Страница 192 - twere a pleasant life to lead, With nothing in the world to do, But just to blow a shepherd's reed The silent seasons through ; — And just to drive a flock to feed, — Sheep, quiet, fond, and few ! Pleasant to breathe beside a brook.
Страница 10 - We are told to glance round his sitting-room in his absence, with the view of throwing light upon his tastes and pursuits — and this is what we find: — The recesses on either side of the fireplace were occupied with broad shelves, and these were filled with books — original editions most of them, of the standard modern novelists. An independent oak book-stand, placed within reach of the one armchair in the room, might be supposed to contain the more special favourites...
Страница 155 - But as thought grew with her growth, the feeling that there was more to be got out of life than she was getting, or ever likely to get, grew too, and she hungered for unknown realms of thought before she had ever heard of them. She craved, with a strong craving that would have frightened her father and mother who had never suffered from it themselves, for companionship with those who had interests and ideas above the daily ones which remained' precisely where they were when she first began to be...
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Страница 152 - ... both metre and meaning together, with a certain half-expressed carelessness as to whether people were pleased with him or not, which first attracted the girl's attention to Roy Fleming. There was a latent love of all that was intellectual in Miss...
Страница 10 - ... the public. He is, besides, a clerk in a government office, a university man, and has suddenly and unexpectedly become heir to a fine estate. We are told to glance round his sitting-room in his absence, with the view of throwing light upon his tastes and pursuits — and this is what we find :— ' ' The recesses on either side of the fireplace were occupied with broad shelves, and these were filled with books— original editions most of them, of tho standard modern novelists.

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