Lost for Love : a Novel, 第 3 巻

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Chatto and Windus, 1874
 

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146 ページ - How use doth breed a habit in a man ! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns : Here can I sit alone, unseen of any, And, to the nightingale's complaining notes, Tune my distresses, and record
255 ページ - Remember the old man, and what he was Years after he had heard this heavy news. His bodily frame had been from youth to age Of an unusual strength.
126 ページ - Our toils obscure, and a' that ; The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that ! What tho' on hamely fare we dine, Wear hoddin gray, and a' that ; Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine, A man's a man, for a' that ! For a
23 ページ - O clasp me, sweet, whilst thou art mine, And do not take my tears amiss; For tears must flow to wash away A thought that shows so stern as this : Forgive, if somewhile I forget, In woe to come, the present bliss. As frighted Proserpine let fall Her flowers at the sight of Dis, E'en so the dark and bright will kiss.
201 ページ - I myself can free. Shake hands for ever! Cancel all our vows! And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain. Now at the last gasp of Love's latest breath, When, his pulse failing, Passion speechless lies, When Faith is kneeling by his bed of death, And Innocence is closing up his eyes — Now, if thou would 'st, when all have given him over, From death to life thou might'st him yet recover!
227 ページ - As rhetoric yet works not persuasion, But only is a mean to make it work ; So no man riseth by his real merit, But when it cries clink in his raiser's spirit.
158 ページ - She spoke with passion after pause — " And were it wisely done If we who cannot gaze above, should walk the earth alone ? If we whose virtue is so weak should have a will so strong, And stand blind on the rocks to choose the right path from the wrong ? " To choose perhaps a lovelit hearth, instead of love and heaven, — A single rose, for a rose-tree which beareth seven times seven?
255 ページ - Meantime Luke began To slacken in his duty; and, at length, He in the dissolute city gave himself To evil courses: ignominy and shame Fell on him, so that he was driven at last To seek a hiding-place beyond the seas.
126 ページ - ... atmosphere of reason. As to all commoner orgies there comes the gray light of to-morrow's dawn, so to this drunkenness of angry passion comes also the morrow, when the man who last night flung all his chances of advantage away for the brief rapture of revenge begins to reckon on consequences, and to consider whether he has not bought his triumph a little too dearly. Jarred Gurner went back to Voysey-street in every way a loser. " I've done it," he said to himself very often, pride sustaining...
125 ページ - The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.

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