The Counterplot, Band 2Alfred A. Knopf, 1925 - 334 Seiten |
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Seite 326 - For I have received of the Lord, that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread: and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
Seite 66 - Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend. But is there for the night a resting-place? A roof for when the slow dark hours begin. May not the darkness hide it from my face? You cannot miss that inn. Shall I meet other wayfarers at night? Those who have gone before. Then must I knock, or call when just in sight? They will not keep you standing...
Seite 142 - L'innocent paradis, plein de plaisirs furtifs, Est-il déjà plus loin que l'Inde et que la Chine ? Peut-on le rappeler avec des cris plaintifs, Et l'animer encor d'une voix argentine, L'innocent paradis plein de plaisirs furtifs...
Seite 81 - Therewith all sweetly did me kiss, And softly said, 'Dear heart, how like you this?
Seite 167 - no figures nor no fantasies" — neither poetry nor philosophy — nothing to dazzle, nothing to excite modern curiosity; but to his lack-lustre eyes there appeared, within the pages of the ponderous, unwieldy, neglected tomes, the sacred name of JEHOVAH in Hebrew capitals: pressed down by the weight of the style, worn to the last fading thinness of the understanding, there were glimpses, glimmering notions of the patriarchal wanderings, with palmtrees hovering in the horizon, and processions of...
Seite 121 - Both these parts of my lighter reading, having furnished me often with matter of reflection, now furnished me with matter for my dreams. Often I used to see, after painting upon the blank darkness a sort of rehearsal whilst waking, a crowd of ladies, and perhaps a festival, and dances. And I heard it said, or I said to myself, "These are English ladies from the unhappy times of Charles I.
Seite 167 - ... Creation, predictions of the end of all things; the great lapses of time, the strange mutations of the globe were unfolded with the voluminous leaf, as it turned over; and though the soul might slumber with an hieroglyphic veil of inscrutable mysteries drawn over it, yet it was in a slumber ill-exchanged for all the sharpened realities of sense, wit, fancy, or reason.
Seite 167 - ... were discussions (dull enough) on the age of Methuselah, a mighty speculation ! there were outlines, rude guesses at the shape of Noah's Ark and of the riches of Solomon's Temple; questions as to the date of the creation, predictions of the end of all things; the great lapses of time, the strange mutations of the...
Seite 177 - VICTIMAE Paschali laudes immolent Christiani. Agnus redemit oves : Christus innocens Patri reconciliavit peccatores. Mors et vita, duello conflixere mirando : dux vitae mortuus, regnat vivus. Die nobis, Maria, quid vidisti in via?
Seite 306 - I subjoin the Roman form, as used in England and elsewhere : " Dominus noster Jesus Christus te absolvat ; et ego auctoritate ipsius te absolve, ab omni vinculo excommunicationis et interdicti, in quantum possum et tu indiges. Deinde ego te absolve a peccatis tuis, in nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti. Amen.