Beyond the GatesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 196 páginas |
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Página 118 - is to my taste the loveliest spot we have seen yet. That is the most homelike of all these homes." We stopped before a small and quiet house built of curiously inlaid woods, that reminded me of Sorrento work as a great achievement may remind one of a first and faint suggestion. So exquisite was the carving and coloring, that on a larger scale the effect might have interfered with the solidity of the building, but so modest were the proportions of this charming house, that its dignity was only enhanced...
Página 120 - Was Heaven an aggregate of homes like this ? Did everlasting life move on in the same dear ordered channel — the dearest that human experiment had...
Página 112 - The width and shining cleanliness of the streets, the beauty and glittering material of the houses, the frequent presence of libraries, museums, public gardens, signs of attention to the wants of animals, and places of shelter for travelers such as I had never seen in the most Advanced and benevolent of cities below, — these were the points that struck me most forcibly.
Página 54 - It is not always permitted," he said gravely. " We cannot return when we would. We go upon these errands when it is Willed. I will go and learn what the Will may be for you touching this matter. Stay here and wait for me.
Página 135 - I was used to seeing, at least in my own corner of the earth. The main point was that the basis of the whole thing had undergone a tremendous change. Inheritance, wealth, intellect, genius, beauty, all the old...
Página 184 - Star of Bethlehem," with the chorus of this roaring fall — " Once on a raging sea I rode, The storm was loud, the night was dark, The ocean yawned, and rudely blowed The winds that tossed my foundering bark." And then the soul responded, with joyful emotions, to that other hymn, " Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed in living green,
Página 33 - ... feared to lose him. I struggled and struck out into the air ; I felt a wild excitement, like one plunged into a deep sea, and desperately swimming, as animals do, and a few men, from blind instinct, having never learned. My father spoke encouragingly, and with tenderness. He never once let go my hand. I felt myself, beyond all doubt, soaring — slowly and weakly — but surely ascending above the solid ground. " See ! there is nothing to fear,
Página 179 - Sigf ried, and Juliet, and Faust, and Dinah Morris, and the Lady of Shalott, and Don Quixote, and Colonel Newcome, and Sam Weller, and Uncle Tom, and Hester Prynne and Jean Valjean existed ? could be approached by way of holiday, as one used to take up the drama or the fiction, on a leisure hour, down below...
Página 116 - ... Now that I think of it, — no. Nor a sick one. Not a beggar. Not a cripple. Not a mourner. Not — and yet what have we here ? This building, by which you are leading me, bears a device above the door, the last I should ever have expected to find here." It was an imposing building, of a certain translucent material that had the massiveness of marble, with the delicacy of thin agate illuminated from within. The rear of this building gave upon the open country, with a background of hills, and...