Dawn, Svazek 2Hurst and Blackett, 1884 - Počet stran: 332 |
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Strana 238 - ... exists no more ; the world, which once was so full of green lanes and byways, through which it was so pleasant to saunter from one stage of life to another, is now traversable by high-roads only, and there is no such thing as a private path, a private house, a private transaction, or a private man, from the pole to the equator, and from the equator to the pole. The existence of a public is now a tremendous truth : but the public voice is not half so terrible as the public eye.
Strana 39 - That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
Strana 57 - Fine writing !' perhaps the reader will say ; but surely none too fine to describe the most beautiful thing in this strange world, the irrevocable gift of a good woman's love...
Strana 207 - understands us.' From all of which wise reflections the reader will gather that our friend Arthur was not a hundred miles off an awkward situation.
Strana 153 - ... of white paper in his hand. No envelope. No date. No signature. No address. Only four lines written in red. Written in German, not English. Written in God's words, not man's : " Be careful to entertain strangers, for some have thereby entertained angels unawares.
Strana 245 - I must tell you once and for all that you will get nothing by kneeling to me.
Strana 269 - Where have you been and what have you been doing all these long months T ' Oh, I have been enjoying myself over half the civilised globe,' he answered, with a somewhat forced laugh.
Strana 251 - Did you see what the brigands did to a fellow they caught in Greece the other day...
Strana 167 - I should like better. When shall the ceremony come off?' ' Now you are laughing at me, and actually interpreting what I say literally, as though the English language were not full of figures of speech. By that...
Strana 40 - No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...