The Living Age, Volumen308Living Age Company, 1921 |
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... welcome of unaffected cordiality . He spoke English with the greatest fluency , though with a slight accent , and in appearance was of the fair type not uncommonly seen in Turkey ; the eyes dark blue , mild in repose CHRISTENDOM AND ISLAM ...
... welcome of unaffected cordiality . He spoke English with the greatest fluency , though with a slight accent , and in appearance was of the fair type not uncommonly seen in Turkey ; the eyes dark blue , mild in repose CHRISTENDOM AND ISLAM ...
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Turkey ; the eyes dark blue , mild in repose , but , when animated , expand- ing and flashing with the brilliancy of the intelligence which lay behind them . The beard was silky and slightly auburn . The whole expression of the face was ...
Turkey ; the eyes dark blue , mild in repose , but , when animated , expand- ing and flashing with the brilliancy of the intelligence which lay behind them . The beard was silky and slightly auburn . The whole expression of the face was ...
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... eyes with an indescribable charm ; and books were written which fascinated the Western reader with pictures of our manners and customs , because they were so different from those with which he was familiar . Now all this is changed ...
... eyes with an indescribable charm ; and books were written which fascinated the Western reader with pictures of our manners and customs , because they were so different from those with which he was familiar . Now all this is changed ...
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... eye for the moral virtues of a people , but his æsthetic faculties have become blunted ; he regards them only as money ... eyes with a sacred character . He can no longer find anything to admire or to interest in the contrast between the ...
... eye for the moral virtues of a people , but his æsthetic faculties have become blunted ; he regards them only as money ... eyes with a sacred character . He can no longer find anything to admire or to interest in the contrast between the ...
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... eye of the soul ' there is no death , and that faith can give absolute certainty of continuous community with the ... eyes . The Na- tional Institute for the Blind , 224-6–8 , Great Portland Street , W. 1 , is respon- sible for the ...
... eye of the soul ' there is no death , and that faith can give absolute certainty of continuous community with the ... eyes . The Na- tional Institute for the Blind , 224-6–8 , Great Portland Street , W. 1 , is respon- sible for the ...
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Página 164 - That from the hunter's aim had ta'en a hurt, Did come to languish; and, indeed, my lord, The wretched animal heav'd forth such groans, That their discharge did stretch his leathern coat Almost to bursting; and the big round tears Cours'd one another down his innocent nose In piteous chase; and thus the hairy fool, Much marked of the melancholy Jaques, Stood on the extremest verge of the swift brook, Augmenting it with tears.
Página 216 - If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: «Hold on!
Página 367 - It seemed that out of battle I escaped Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped Through granites which titanic wars had groined. Yet also there encumbered sleepers groaned, Too fast in thought or death to be bestirred. Then, as I probed them, one sprang up, and stared With piteous recognition in fixed eyes, Lifting distressful hands as if to bless. And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell. With a thousand pains that vision's face was grained;...
Página 176 - Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Página 293 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Página 54 - Every language has its anomalies, which though inconvenient and in themselves once unnecessary must be tolerated among the imperfections of human things, and which require only to be registered that they may not be increased; and ascertained, that they may not be confounded; but every language has likewise its improprieties and absurdities, which it is the duty of the lexicographer to correct or proscribe.
Página 161 - OLD King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he; He called for his pipe, and he called for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers three.
Página 646 - Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
Página 343 - For Mr. Whistler's own sake, no less than for the protection of the purchaser, Sir Coutts Lindsay ought not to have admitted works into the gallery in which the ill-educated conceit of the artist so nearly approached the aspect of wilful imposture.
Página 590 - Vain Desires, And Vice, with the spoils upon him Of thee and thy beaten sires, "While Kings of eternal evil Yet darken the hills about, Thy part is with broken sabre To rise on the last redoubt, "To fear not sensible failure, Nor covet the game at all, But fighting, fighting, fighting, Die, driven against the wall!