Notes and Queries: By Arthur MachenSpurr & Swift, 1926 - 114 páginas |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
adventure ancient Avalon believe body bottle bough Bran the Blessed breed Britain burning Caerleon Cæsar Camelot castle CASUISTRY cauldron Celtic Celts certainly chemist Church civilisation course darkness death delight destruction dreams enchantment ex opere operato faculty fell flame Freemason goitre Graal green hand happiness Head of Bran heard heart hidden Hiram Abiff Holy Graal horror houses human imagination incantation instance instinct King Arthur knight lady legend lived London lord Lorna Doone magic matter medicine modern morning moth mysterious natural never nightertale I longed Paradise Parsifal passed perhaps possible prehistoric Queen Guinevere question Ramsay Macdonald remember romances rose-tree Sangraal secret seems sense Shakespeare shining Sir Lancelot smoke Socialism Socialist song spear spirit story strange Street superstition suppose sure theory things tion transmuted trees valley vessel whole wizard wonderful wood word write
Pasajes populares
Página 75 - ... baron, or a Renaissance prince, more often than not, was such a man. And in our own time, if report is to be believed, we find the type in the great financiers. Some of these, it would almost seem, are creditable modern representatives of Periander, or of Front-de-Boeuf, or of Caesar Borgia. For it is Power, not wealth or comfort, at which they aim; and in pursuit of that aim they trample under foot all law and all morality. As the ancient tyrant or the mediaeval baron robbed, so do they ; only,...
Página 85 - It has not been unusual in the past to invest them with an inherent virtue of their own ; this is an ignorant superstition. Whatever the process, whatever the instruments, they are simply aids to elicit clairvoyance, and to cast the Seer for the time being into a subjective or interior condition.
Página 19 - It is hardly possible to conceive that the poems and plays were written in William Shakespeare's illegible illiterate scrawl.
Página ii - The Great Return," "The Terror," "War and the Christian Faith,
Página 11 - Then, in the shimmering and in the shining of the glassy smoke that rose from the cauldron there showed the shapes of the Mighty Ones, and to the Mightiest did Guinevere there make offering of herself; and, this done, 'Now,' said the wizard, 'is the time come.
Página 29 - politics,' sir, comprises in itself a difficult study of no inconsiderable magnitude" he was only making a Pickwickian overture to a distinguished foreigner.
Página 9 - Arthur, and by the high saint were King Arthur and the Lady Guinevere made man and wife. There was a day when Queen Guinevere, that now is married to King Arthur, sat with her ladies in her bower, and they were at sport, devising of certain flowers, that were their lovers, and of their divers properties. Said one damosel: "I know a rose-tree that rises not too tall, and it grows in a low garden...
Página xvi - A wonderful old town for all that it was such a tiny place; and wonderful was it to stand in the evening on the green circle of the Roman amphitheatre, and see the sun flame above Twyn Barlwm, the mystic tumulus on the mountain wall of the west. So the old town dreamed the long years away, not forgetful of the Legions and the Eagles, murmuring scraps of broken Latin in its...
Página 16 - And so this sin could no longer be covered, and all the court of King Arthur had knowledge of these birds and of what their message was, and some believed it and some not, but all looked strangely on Sir Lancelot 16 and Queen Guinevere.
Página xv - XV enchantment, the chief city of a cycle of romance that has charmed all the world. I remember it as it was fifty-six years ago: dreaming in the sun by the yellow Usk, as it always seemed to me ; its streets all silent, so that a rare footstep echoed in them, and people came to their windows and...