A Pair of Blue Eyes: A NovelH. Holt and Company, 1874 - 390 ページ |
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335 ページ - O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; Happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. Happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
56 ページ - I met a Lady in the Meads Full beautiful, a faery's child Her hair was long, her foot was light And her eyes were wild. I...
303 ページ - Then she said, Let me find favour in thy sight, my lord; for that thou hast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken friendly. unto thine handmaid, though I be not like unto one of thine handmaidens.
179 ページ - ... strange these persons can help reflecting, that unless they have in truth a superior capacity, and are in an extraordinary manner furnished for conversation ; if they are entertaining, it is at their own expense. Is it possible, that it should never come into people's thoughts to suspect, whether or no it be to their advantage to show so very much of themselves ? Oh that you would altogether hold your peace, and it should be your wisdom.
221 ページ - Not with its natural golden fringe, sweeping the furthest ends of the landscape, not with the strange glare of whiteness which it sometimes puts on as an alternative to colour, but as a splotch of vermilion red upon a leaden ground — a red face looking on with a drunken leer.
218 ページ - By one of those familiar conjunctions of things wherewith the inanimate world baits the mind of man when he pauses in moments of suspense, opposite Knight's eyes was an imbedded fossil, standing forth in low relief from the rock.
269 ページ - O hide not thou thy glorious face In times of deep distress ; Incline thine ear, and, when I call, My sorrows soon redress. 3 My days, just hastening to their end, Are like an evening shade ; My beauty does, like wither'd grass, With waning lustre fade.
219 ページ - Time closed up like a fan before him. He saw himself at one extremity of the years, face to face with the beginning and all the intermediate centuries simultaneously. Fierce men, clothed in the hides of beasts, and carrying, for defence and attack, huge clubs and pointed spears, rose from the rock, like the phantoms before the doomed Macbeth.
247 ページ - The scratch of a striking light was heard, and a bright glow radiated from the interior of the building. The light gave birth to dancing leaf-shadows, stem-shadows, lustrous streaks, dots, sparkles, and threads of silver sheen of all imaginable variety and transience. It awakened gnats, which flew towards it, revealed shiny gossamer threads, disturbed earthworms.
221 ページ - He was again mistaken. The rain was quite ordinary in quantity; the air in temperature. It was, as is usual, the menacing attitude in which they approached him that magnified their powers. He again looked straight downwards, the wind and the water-dashes lifting his moustache, scudding up his cheeks, under his eyelids, and into his eyes. This is what he saw down there: the surface of the sea visually just past his toes, and under his feet; actually one-eighth of a mile, or more than two hundred yards,...