The Living Age, Volume 269Living Age Company, 1911 - Literature |
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... play with the Lamb of God . She heard the calling ewes And the lambs ' answer , alas ! She heard her heart's blood ... Playing by Mary's gown . Oh , who is this comes in Over her threshold - stone ? And why is the old dog wild with joy ...
... play with the Lamb of God . She heard the calling ewes And the lambs ' answer , alas ! She heard her heart's blood ... Playing by Mary's gown . Oh , who is this comes in Over her threshold - stone ? And why is the old dog wild with joy ...
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... played that it had nothing to say to us , that we were not in the mood for it , that we were listening to its notes with- out really hearing it . All very serious music requires an atmosphere , a stim- mung to be established , before it ...
... played that it had nothing to say to us , that we were not in the mood for it , that we were listening to its notes with- out really hearing it . All very serious music requires an atmosphere , a stim- mung to be established , before it ...
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... playing cards . " What will they be doing with the bits of pictures ? " the Widow whispered to her grandson . " These'll be playing - cards , mother , " he said , having learned as much as that ( and a little more ) on board ship . He ...
... playing cards . " What will they be doing with the bits of pictures ? " the Widow whispered to her grandson . " These'll be playing - cards , mother , " he said , having learned as much as that ( and a little more ) on board ship . He ...
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... play it had been ! No ad- ventures , no risks - above all , no prizes to win : just picking away at the bar- ren soil , reaping the thin little crops , and scraping the ground once more , over and over again . And now he had escaped ...
... play it had been ! No ad- ventures , no risks - above all , no prizes to win : just picking away at the bar- ren soil , reaping the thin little crops , and scraping the ground once more , over and over again . And now he had escaped ...
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... playing , like great swords thrust down out of heaven into the forest , and the Widow was scared by it . In the ... play at filling up the hole with mud on wet days ; and was there a gate now where the path from the shieling joined ...
... playing , like great swords thrust down out of heaven into the forest , and the Widow was scared by it . In the ... play at filling up the hole with mud on wet days ; and was there a gate now where the path from the shieling joined ...
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Page 655 - tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners ; so that if we will plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
Page 88 - BEHOLD, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.
Page 80 - And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire...
Page 724 - Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed king ; The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputy elected by the Lord.
Page 306 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her, with timbrels, and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously : the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Page 276 - said the Traveller, Knocking on the moonlit door; And his horse in the silence champed the grasses Of the forest's ferny floor. And a bird flew up out of the turret, Above the Traveller's head: And he smote upon the door again a second time;
Page 655 - tis in ourselves that we are thus, or thus. Our bodies are our gardens ; to the which our wills are gardeners : so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce ; set hyssop, and weed up thyme ; supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many; either to have it steril with idleness, or manured with industry ; why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
Page 80 - For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand. 3 And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever.
Page 610 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder...
Page 188 - Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.