The Living Age, Հատոր 330Living Age Company, 1926 |
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Էջ 54 - Tolerate the spasmodic, the obscure, the fragmentary, the failure. Your help is invoked in a good cause. For I will make one final and surpassingly rash prediction— we are trembling on the verge of one of the great ages of English literature.
Էջ 242 - On the next day much people that were come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, 13 Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna : Blessed is the King of Israel That cometli in the name of the Lord.
Էջ 328 - I (AB) do swear that I will, without respect of favour or friendship, love or gain, consanguinity or affinity, envy or malice, execute the laws of this Isle justly betwixt our Sovereign Lady the Queen and her subjects within this Isle, and betwixt party and party as indifferently as the herring back-bone doth lie in the midst of the fish.
Էջ 149 - He was oppressed, yet he humbled himself And opened not his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, And as a sheep that before her shearers is dumb ; So he opened not his mouth.
Էջ 656 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the falling together; and a little child shall lead them.
Էջ 533 - ... restarted the old floating motion. We were still some way from the ground, and took what seemed like a long time in reaching it. I looked round somewhat hurriedly, the tail was still there, and I could see nothing wrong. As we got close to the ground the machine was doing long swings from side to side, and I made up my mind that the only thing to do was to try and jump clear of the wreckage before the crash.
Էջ 242 - And Jesus, when he had found a young ass, sat thereon; as it is written, 15. Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass's colt 16.
Էջ 49 - I believe that all novels begin with an old lady in the corner opposite. I believe that aîl novels, that is to say, deal with character, and that it is to express character — not to preach doctrines, sing songs, or celebrate the glories of the British .Empire, that the form of the novel, so clumsy, verbose, and undramatic, so rich, elastic, and alive, has been evolved.
Էջ 48 - But there was no silence; all the time the motor omnibuses were turning their wheels and changing their gear ; like a vast nest of Chinese boxes all of wrought steel turning ceaselessly one within another the city murmured; on the top of which the voices cried aloud and the petals of myriads of flowers flashed their colours into the air.
Էջ 87 - Useless, except to roast Doctors have said it: How they who use fusees All grow by slow degrees Brainless as chimpanzees, Meagre as lizards: Go mad, and beat their wives; Plunge (after shocking lives) Razors and carving knives Into their gizzards.