An Old Castle and Other EssaysMacmillan, 1922 - 395 страница |
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... knew all that was worth knowing . They knew that this earth was a wide plain , you had seen with the monks at the abbey a map that showed the whole of it . If sailed away you toward the setting sun , you would come after some days to ...
... knew all that was worth knowing . They knew that this earth was a wide plain , you had seen with the monks at the abbey a map that showed the whole of it . If sailed away you toward the setting sun , you would come after some days to ...
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... knew was all . You understood it all well enough . You had the evidence of your senses for it . You no more doubted the accuracy of your knowledge than you doubted that your blood stood still in your veins like water in a bottle . You knew ...
... knew was all . You understood it all well enough . You had the evidence of your senses for it . You no more doubted the accuracy of your knowledge than you doubted that your blood stood still in your veins like water in a bottle . You knew ...
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... knew once , but it was hardly worth while to guess now . This world , at all events , was a vaster place than you had ever dreamed of . It was perhaps enough to know that . Your son had gone with Sir Francis Drake and you wished you ...
... knew once , but it was hardly worth while to guess now . This world , at all events , was a vaster place than you had ever dreamed of . It was perhaps enough to know that . Your son had gone with Sir Francis Drake and you wished you ...
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... knew her said , " she chose rather to hide herself from the curious eyes of a delicate time , ” and to find at her home at Penshurst and here at Ludlow , where she often came with her husband , fittest scene in which to play a noble ...
... knew her said , " she chose rather to hide herself from the curious eyes of a delicate time , ” and to find at her home at Penshurst and here at Ludlow , where she often came with her husband , fittest scene in which to play a noble ...
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... knew that the impetuous temper of his children portended for them a stormy career . At all events their after life justified his apprehensions . This Earl of Essex , like Henry Sidney , had a son and a daughter , Robert and Penelope ...
... knew that the impetuous temper of his children portended for them a stormy career . At all events their after life justified his apprehensions . This Earl of Essex , like Henry Sidney , had a son and a daughter , Robert and Penelope ...
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Страница 89 - Yare, yare, good Iras; quick. — Methinks, I hear Antony call; I see him rouse himself To praise my noble act; I hear him mock The luck of Caesar, which the gods give men To excuse their after wrath: Husband, I come: Now to that name my courage prove my title ! I am fire, and air; my other elements I give to baser life.
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Страница 325 - GROW old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in his hand Who saith, "A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!
Страница 108 - I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so; and for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still, still so, and own No other function.
Страница 60 - Hero had turned nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night; for, good youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont and being taken with the cramp was drowned; and the foolish chroniclers of that age found it was — Hero of Sestos. But these are all lies. Men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them. but not for love.
Страница 247 - O' clod or stane, Adorns the histie stibble-field, Unseen, alane. There, in thy scanty mantle clad, Thy snawie bosom sun-ward spread, Thou lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise ; But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies ! Such is the fate of artless maid, Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade ! By love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all soil'd, is laid Low i
Страница 89 - With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate Of life at once untie : poor venomous fool, Be angry, and dispatch.