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Page 184 - Till at the last she set herself to man, Like perfect music unto noble words: And so these twain, upon the skirts of Time, Sit side by side, full-summ'd in all their powers, Dispensing harvest, sowing the To-be, Self-reverent each and reverencing each, Distinct in individualities, But like each other ev'n as those who love.
Page 233 - For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward ; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished ; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
Page 119 - Bruce Glasier. no date These statistics of mortality among children have become unbearable to me. I used to be able to read them in a dull scientific way . . . It is not true that other children can make it up to you, that times heals the pain. It doesn't; it grows worse and...
Page 205 - DAUGHTERS being, neither husband nor child, was ever admitted : . . . "she had within her being a Holy of Holies where she sat alone, and where the presence of her dearest wa< forbidden. In the long dark nights of the Lossiemouth late autumn and winter, with the moan of the sea passing over the land like the cry of toiling creation, the call of the night bird flying overhead, and the mass of stars shining above her, she would retire within herself and go out silently to the shore or the moors in...
Page 209 - Away to the north, across the Firth, rose the pale blue hills of Sutherland and Ross: to the south lay the fertile farms of Morayshire sloping up through green wood and purple moorland into the blue tops of the Grampians, with the ruined Palace of Spynie in the mid-distance; to the east swept the sea, bordered by a wide stretch of yellow sand bending away into the horizon, with hills in the background, the whole stretching out in peaceful beauty which has won for it the name of the "Bay of Naples".
Page 44 - Sardis, which have not defiled their garments, and they shall walk with me in white : for they are worthy.
Page 209 - Bois, nearby, and often took tramps into this countryside rich in memories. MacDonald described the historical landscape thus: "It was a land of majestic solemnity and magnificent romance, haunted by the shades of those who stood for the best in the life of England — Cromwell. Milton. Hampden, Penn, Burke.
Page 92 - ... young men, and at least four suitors had been formally rejected before she met her partner. In the autumn of 1893 she had written in her diary: I wonder whether I shall meet him in this world. I mean my him, my sir, my knight. I believe that each of us will meet her him or his her in some world. . . . Oh, God, Thou hast not given me Thy best gift. Oh. let me make no mistake about it, and if I should use it for myself and him instead of for Thee and Thy other children, keep it from me till I am...
Page 228 - I think of death as some delightful journey That I shall take when all my tasks are done...
Page 68 - These troubles arose in connection with an agitation of the unemployed. Trade was very bad and men out of employment were being told for the first time in their lives that 'they ought not to starve in private.