Peeps Into the Deaf WorldBemrose & Sons, 1917 - 410 страница |
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Страница 83 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; the hair of my flesh stood up. It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, "Shall mortal man be more just than God?
Страница 125 - Here Reynolds is laid, and, to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind. His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland : Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart. To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without skill, he was still hard of hearing ; When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Corregios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet, and only took snuff.
Страница 311 - GOD sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth, That they might touch the hearts of men, And bring them back to heaven again.
Страница 84 - MAY I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence : live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self. In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge man's search To vaster issues.
Страница 163 - The people here use umbrellas in hot weather to defend them from the sun, and something of the same kind to save them from the snow and rain. I wonder a practice so useful is not introduced in England.
Страница 387 - Guilford did the same; and they had been carrying on a conversation in this manner for about ten minutes, when Lady Melville joined them. Her female friend immediately said, " Well, I have been talking away to this dumb man."—
Страница 50 - But during the first nineteen months of my life I had caught glimpses of broad, green fields, a luminous sky, trees and flowers which the darkness that followed could not wholly blot out. If we have once seen, "the day is ours, and what the. day has shown.
Страница 235 - Immediately his tongue was loosed. He said what he had been ordered. The bishop then added the names of the letters : 'Say A ;' he said 'A.' 'Say B;' he said this, too. And when he had repeated the names of the letters as the bishop said them one by one, the latter went further and gave him syllables and words to say ; and when in all these instances he at once replied, he told him to say longer sentences and he did so.
Страница 50 - When I awoke and found that all was dark and still, I suppose I thought it was night, and I must have wondered why day was so long coming. Gradually, however, I got used to the silence and darkness that surrounded me, and forgot that it had ever been day.
Страница 235 - Of him the Venerable Bede — born 673, died 735 — in his "Hist. Eccl.," Lib. v, c. ii, relates the following intensely interesting anecdote : "Now there was in a village not far distant a certain deaf and dumb youth, who was well known to the bishop, for he had been in the habit of coming frequently before him for the purpose of receiving alms. The youth could not utter a single articulate sound, and, moreover, had such a scurvy and such sores on his head that no hair could ever grow on the upper...