Tales about Temperaments ...T. Fisher Unwin, 1902 - 158 Seiten |
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Seite 3 - And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.
Seite 58 - Aux filles de bonnes maisons Comme il avait su plaire, Ses sujets avaient cent raisons De le nommer leur père : D'ailleurs il ne levait de ban Que pour tirer quatre fois l'an Au blanc. Oh! oh! oh! oh! ah! ah! ah! ah!
Seite 33 - She bent over him and kissed his eyelids. "What shall I sing?" "Anything," said Lambert. So she sang a song which is not to be found in Rossetti. It was this: — Lin-ger lon-ger Lu — cy, lin-ger lon-ger. Loo: How — I — love to lin-ger, Lucy — lin-ger lon-ger you . Lis-ten while I sing — ah, pro-mise you'll be true. Lin-ger lon-ger, lon-ger lin-ger, lin-ger lon-ger, Loo.
Seite 59 - No virtuous matron should know more than one man," said the Doctor, " otherwise she is apt to suspect that we are all alike ! A gross fallacy ! A woman should be either the wife of one husband or a lady of many adventures. Believe me, there is no middle course. Let her have total innocence or complete knowledge.
Seite 56 - If however one of greater age and more advanced in years should complain and lament poor wretch his death more than is right, would she not with greater cause raise her voice and rally him in sharp accents, 'away from this time forth with thy tears, rascal; a truce to thy complainings : thou decayest after full enjoyment of all the prizes of life. But because thou ever yearnest for what is not present, and despisest what is, life has slipped from thy grasp unfinished and unsatisfying, and or ever...
Seite 51 - There are two deaths — the death of the body, and the death of the spirit. ' Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection ; on such the second death hath no power.
Seite 42 - Minnie," replied her ladyship, "has moderate views, and is even in favour of black gowns in the pulpit. I know she had a long correspondence with her Bishop on the subject." " I am delighted to hear that. I never think less of a girl for being narrow-minded. The want of sympathy with unfamiliar ideas keeps a woman straight, when mere moral principles would fail ; and one cannot be too careful. Girls are so headstrong in these times. But why don't you invite Minnie here more frequently ? I have not...
Seite 56 - that is why the heroes and heroines of tragic drama must talk blank verse, for, by being true to poetry, we are pardoned if we are thereby false to nature. Doubtless, if we could speak when our spirits feel the stir of our eternal wings beating at heaven and drooping toward hell, we should utter even diviner harmonies than any poet has yet made mortal.
Seite 67 - She is a nice girl," answered Sir Claude. " My mother is greatly attached to her. I hope she is well. In the end, I daresay " " I am delighted to hear it," exclaimed the Doctor, grasping his hand. " I could think of no one more suitable." " 0 my ideal ! Bride of my soul ! Wife of my heart ! " Sir Claude looked up toward the Alps. They had grown one with the sky. " Yes," said the youth, with a melancholy smile ; " it will, no doubt, be Minnie.
Seite 52 - is a discreet man. He never permitted himself to love his own wife till she was buried. But you know my opinion of clerics. No stage is so degrading as the pulpit, if you are driven to exhibit yourself there. You feel like Pontius Pilate, yet you must talk like an apostle. Your sense asks what is truth, while your tongue has to define it. Truth ! I have explained it admirably a hundred times, and I have not the least faith in its existence. Life is a shell full of false appearances. If you crack...