The Royal End: A RomanceDodd, Mead, 1909 - 349 páginas |
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Página 95 - ... Careless world, that judges from hearsay — the evil world, which is always so quick to discover, so ready to gloat over, anything wrong ? And there must be something wrong, some false position, some oversight in conduct, some unfortunate concatenation of circumstances, to make such a lie possible. ' Be thou chaste as ice, pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
Página 286 - Thus are our lives arranged for us," she thought, smiling, " and by whom? " For half an instant she was silent. Somewhere, among the recesses of memory, Ruth tried to recall such a conversation. She remembered, — she had read It, — why, — it was in one of Corvo's witty tales. So does history repeat itself. What the romancer invents women and men enact.
Página 141 - He waits till he catches you in a scrape, or desperately hard up, or drunk, or out of your proper cool wits with anger, pride, lust, whichever of the seven deadly impulses you will, and then he grinds you like a money-lender, or chouses you like a sharper at a fair.
Página 94 - No, no, no; if you go to seek Truth in the printed page, seek it in novels, seek it in poems, seek it in fairy tales or fashion papers, but don't waste your time seeking it in histories.
Página 29 - Of course, it would be the easiest thing in the world for me to give him the ten thousand outright.
Página 106 - What's the good of being serious ? Isn't levity the soul of wit? Come, come! Life's grim enough, in all conscience, without making it worse by being serious.
Página 13 - ... before them rose the domes and palaces of Venice, pale and luminous, with purple blacknesses of shadow, unreal, mysterious, dreamcompelling, as a city built of cloud.
Página 161 - He was a lovely youth ! I guess The panther in the wilderness Was not so fair as he." " I guess " is very vulgar, inappropriate — for there is no guessing in the case — and evidently lugged in for the sake of the rhyme, because the poet could not part with " the panther in the wilderness...
Página 151 - ... hardly knew whether he was standing on his head or on his heels. The watchmen held their lanterns up and looked at him as he limped and toiled along, and " Past ten o'clock 1" sounded strangely in his ears.