Moon-calf: A NovelA.A. Knopf, 1921 - 394 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
Adam afternoon Alden amusing asked Felix Bassett beautiful began believe better Bill Hollander Book of Mormon bourgeoisie candy Comrade Vogelsang cried dream Ellen eyes factory father Felix knew Felix looked felt finished floor fool Franz garret girl glucose gone hand happy hated Helen hurried idea Joyce kind kiss laughed lived Maple Margaret marriage meeting mind Monist mother never night novel perhaps play poem Port Royal realized rose Rose Henderson seemed Simpson smiled Socialist stay Stephen stood stopped story strange street suddenly talk tell things thought told Tom Alden Tom Jenkins took town Transvaluation of Values turned Turner Hall Uncle Jim UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Vickley voice waiting walked week Wheels wondered words write young
Pasajes populares
Página 80 - Merciful Heaven! Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt, Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak, Than the soft myrtle : — But man, proud man ! Dressed in a little brief authority, — Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, — like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven, As make the angels weep ; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal.
Página 80 - Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet, For every pelting, petty officer Would use his heaven for thunder; nothing but thunder. Merciful Heaven ! Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt, Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle.
Página 320 - ... at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to knowledge that seems by a lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange colours, and curious odours, or work of the artist's hands, or the face of one's friend.
Página 394 - He saw again in his mind's eye, as he tramped the road, a picture of the map on the wall of the railway station — the map with a picture of iron roads from all over the Middle West centering in a dark blotch in the corner. . . . "Chicago,
Página 141 - A flower there is, that shineth bright, Some call it mary-gold-a : He that wold not when he might, He shall not when he wold-a.
Página 157 - ... product of unrestricted commercial enterprise; its center was occupied by the vast, bare, smokebegrimed structures of the greatest plow-factory on earth; a little fringe of desultory shops, insulted and apparently pushed aside by incessantly switching trains of freight-cars, gave way to a drab and monotonous area of cheap and hastily-constructed workingmen's dwellings, each house exactly like the next, street after street and mile after mile — while afar, set almost inaccessibly upon the hills...
Página 174 - Moon-Calf tion, even as were the shining spirits of wood and stream in an earlier day. She had, like these books, a spirit above the rush and stress of common life. Something in her light step, her serene glance, personified for him the spirit of literature; she was its spirit, made visible in radiant cool flesh.
Página 62 - I'm glad, And I know what will please him ; A bottle of wine to make him shine And Lucy Tait to tease him ! " I thought there was an inhuman, a devilish deftness in the rhymes.
Página 394 - Chicago!" he said to himself. And then the hurt came - the hurt of lost beauty, of unforgotten unforgettable love. Felix quickened his steps. Another mile. And water. And forgetting. But his tramping steps went to the rhythm of a word that said itself over and over in his mind: "Chicago! Chicago!
Página 254 - ... has a quality of its own. I suppose this is partly due to the pioneers from New England, who brought with them ideals and a respect for learning; but it is more due, I think, to the Germans, who left home because they loved liberty, and brought with them a taste for music, discussion and good beer. There are so many of the Germans, and they have so much enthusiasm, that they dominate the town. And for some reason they are not as solemn and stodgy as Germans often are — perhaps because of a...