The Lily and the Bee: An Apologue of the Crystal Palace

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Blackwood, 1851 - 224 Seiten
A moral fable using the Crystal Palace as a backdrop. While the story is fictional, readers can enjoy a wide variety of descriptions of the architecture, gardens and more.
 

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Seite 156 - The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me.
Seite 147 - And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer...
Seite 157 - The gold and the crystal cannot equal it; and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold. No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls; for the price of wisdom is above rubies.
Seite xi - To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages, that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of music...
Seite 32 - For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them : but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.
Seite xii - ... ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?
Seite 50 - O come, let us worship, and fall down : and kneel before the Lord our Maker. For he is the Lord our God : and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.
Seite 31 - WE HAVE heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
Seite 184 - These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air, And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind: we are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep..
Seite 119 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.

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