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Side 4
... simple monastic life of the pure lover of nature is beyond my reach , I would not willingly set up my tent in the dusty high road . I do not like the town cross either of a village or of a city . It is not good for us to see overmuch of ...
... simple monastic life of the pure lover of nature is beyond my reach , I would not willingly set up my tent in the dusty high road . I do not like the town cross either of a village or of a city . It is not good for us to see overmuch of ...
Side 7
... simple lives , and died easy deaths , among their flocks and herds , still stood upon the bents beside the sea . Yet something ailed the place . They had all left , it is true ; but for that I was prepared . I knew that they had been ...
... simple lives , and died easy deaths , among their flocks and herds , still stood upon the bents beside the sea . Yet something ailed the place . They had all left , it is true ; but for that I was prepared . I knew that they had been ...
Side 38
... simple , uncorrupted man is the Commodore , yet with a poetic instinct in his heart , which silent night - watches ... simple society , pleased with simple pleasures ! But to - day - this Christmas - day - 38 A CAMPAIGNER AT HOME .
... simple , uncorrupted man is the Commodore , yet with a poetic instinct in his heart , which silent night - watches ... simple society , pleased with simple pleasures ! But to - day - this Christmas - day - 38 A CAMPAIGNER AT HOME .
Side 39
... simple gentleman . I recalled the last time I had seen him , a year or two previously , when I found him sitting in his den at the top of his house in Onslow Square . Even then he had suffered much and long , and the traces of suffering ...
... simple gentleman . I recalled the last time I had seen him , a year or two previously , when I found him sitting in his den at the top of his house in Onslow Square . Even then he had suffered much and long , and the traces of suffering ...
Side 45
... simple and unartificial - going so directly to the mark , never failing to hit the right nail on the head - should have grown constrained and turgid when he attempted to enlist the purer and loftier emo- tions . Somehow on that ground ...
... simple and unartificial - going so directly to the mark , never failing to hit the right nail on the head - should have grown constrained and turgid when he attempted to enlist the purer and loftier emo- tions . Somehow on that ground ...
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Side 321 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming ; it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
Side 62 - Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last— far off— at last, to all, And every winter change to spring. So runs my dream ; but what am I ? An infant crying in the night ; An infant crying for the light, And with no language but a cry.
Side 276 - I loved you, Evelyn, all the while ! My heart seemed full as it could hold ; There was place and to spare for the frank young smile, And the red young mouth, and the hair's young gold. So, hush, — I will give you this leaf to keep : See, I shut it inside the sweet cold hand ! There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand.
Side 73 - Then spake Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon ; and thou, moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
Side 265 - Oh, the wild joys of living ! the leaping from rock up to rock, The strong rending of boughs from the fir-tree, the cool silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's living water, the hunt of the bear, And the sultriness showing the lion is couched in his lair.
Side 251 - As for Venice and her people, merely born to bloom and drop, "Here on earth they bore their fruitage, mirth and folly were the crop: "What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?
Side 125 - Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.
Side 261 - Praxed in a glory, and one Pan Ready to twitch the Nymph's last garment off. And Moses with the tables ... but I know Ye mark me not! What do they whisper thee, Child of my bowels, Anselm?
Side 45 - Through the dear might of Him that walked the waves, Where, other groves and other streams along, With nectar pure his oozy locks he laves; And hears the unexpressive nuptial song, In the blest kingdoms meek of joy and love.
Side 276 - It was not her time to love ; beside, Her life had many a hope and aim, Duties enough and little cares, And now was quiet, now astir, Till God's hand beckoned unawares, — And the sweet white brow is all of her.