Philip and His Wife

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Houghton, Mifflin, 1894 - 438 pages
 

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Page 317 - O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day ; Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away ! Re-enter PANTHINO.
Page 334 - ... heavy hearts to hear. So it is, my dear. Very like indeed : Sea and sky, afar, on high, Sand and strewn seaweed, — Very like indeed. But the sea stands spread As one wall with the flat skies, Where the lean black craft like flies Seem well-nigh stagnated, Soon to drop off dead. Seemed it so to us When I was thine and thou wast mine, And all these things were thus, But all our world in us ? Could we be so now?
Page 187 - ... to make a small income go as far as possible. And yet she was a happy woman, and a woman whom no one named without good-will. It was her own universal good-will and contented temper which worked such wonders. She loved everybody, was interested in everybody's happiness...
Page 16 - To make them like himself: but, friend, to me He is all fault who hath no fault at all: For who loves me must have a touch of earth; The low sun makes the colour: I am yours, Not Arthur's, as ye know, save by the bond.
Page 62 - s no third place in 't. Duch. How do you affect it ? Ant. My banishment, feeding my melancholy, Would often reason thus. Duch. Pray, let 's hear it. Ant. Say a man never marry, nor have children, What takes that from him ? only the bare name Of being a father, or the weak delight To see...
Page 214 - ... by the lust of the flesh, or the lust of the eye, or the pride of life.
Page 150 - I can't tell you what a relief it is to know that he has done it himself. I depend on you, Susan. I might as well tell you I have been very anxious and distressed about it." He sighed deeply, but added, nodding, " However, what you have said makes me feel better.

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