Donal Grant, Volumen3K. Paul, Trench & Company, 1883 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 19 - Therefore, whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light ; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.
Página 208 - tis not to come : if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come : the readiness is all : since no man has ought of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes?
Página 91 - For to fancy we go into the other world a set of spiritual moles burrowing in the dark of a new and unknown existence, is worthy only of such as have a lifeless Law to their sire. We shall enter it as children with a history, as children going home to a long line of living ancestors, to develop closest relations with them.
Página 103 - But if you spied inside the cloak, and making it come towards you, the most beautiful loving face you ever saw— of a man carrying in his arms a little child — -and saw the child clinging to him, and looking in his face \vith a blessed smile, would you be frightened at the black cloak ? "
Página 112 - If there arose a grief in the heart of one of his creatures not otherwise to be destroyed, he would take it into himself, there consume it in his own creative fire — himself bearing the grief, carrying the sorrow.
Página 206 - G-od cannot help men with wisdom when their minds are in too great a tumult to hear what he says ! " He tried to lift up his heart and make a silence in his soul.
Página 49 - Look here, sir ! this is what I found in a little box, close by the door of the wine-cellar ! It's a skull ! "
Página 245 - His eyes were fixed upon her. His lips moved tremulously once or twice, but no word came. He turned from her, glanced round the place, and said,
Página 166 - The dull world has got the wrong phrase : it is he who resents an affront who pockets it ! he who takes no notice, lets it lie in the dirt.
Página 189 - Hamlet defying augury is the consistent religious man Shakspere takes pains to show him.