The Thing from the LakeJ.B. Lippincott, 1921 - 315 pages |
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Page 137 - I met a lady in the meads Full beautiful - a faery's child, Her hair was long, her foot was light, And her eyes were wild.
Page 120 - The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.
Page 137 - A spirit had followed them; one of the invisible inhabitants of this planet, neither departed souls nor angels; concerning whom the learned Jew, Josephus, and the Platonic Constantinopolitan, Michael Psellus, may be consulted. They are very numerous, and there is no climate or element without one or more.
Page 296 - While fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.
Page 17 - Lilith, the first wife of Adam. Beware of her fair hair, for she excels All women in the magic of her locks ; And when she winds them round a young man's neck, She will not ever set him free again.
Page 81 - An' leetle flames danced all about The chiny on the dresser. Agin the chimbley crook-necks hung, An' in amongst 'em rusted The ole queen's-arm thet gran'ther Young Fetched back from Concord busted. The very room, coz she was in, Seemed warm from floor to ceilin', An' she looked full ez rosy agin Ez the apples she was peelin'.
Page 282 - Armenian poet and historian, who flourished in the thirteenth century, describes them under the same terms, but expressly states : " these orders differ from one another in situation and degree of glory, just as there are different ranks among men, though they are all of one nature." He also remarks that the first order are attracted to the Deity by love, and hardly attributes place to them, but states of desire and love, while the heaven which contains the whole host is above the primum mobile,...
Page 125 - Bion that, though the boys throw stones at frogs in sport, yet the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest. For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human. Simonides calls painting silent poetry, and poetry speaking painting. These Macedonians are a rude and clownish people, that call a spade a spade.
Page 90 - ... whom I gave mine hands, he created disturbance thereby; they that arrayed them in my fine linen regarded me as a shadow; and it was they that anointed themselves with my spices that entered my harem. 5. My images are among the living; and my achievements are among men. But I have made an heroic story that hath not been heard; a great feat of arms that hath not been seen. Surely one fighteth for a lassoed ox that forgetteth yesterday; and good fortune is of no avail unto one that cannot perceive...
Page 146 - WE overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination, given us to bring down The choirs of singing angels, overshone By God's clear glory, — down our earth, to rake The dismal snows instead ; flake following flake, To cover all the corn. We walk upon The shadows of hills, across a level thrown, And pant like climbers.