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... took the intention of something she had said , and put an unkind construc- tion on it . " " I thought she was proposing marriage to me , and I accepted her . Was that unkind ? " Isabel smiled . " It was unkind to me . I don't want you ...
... took the intention of something she had said , and put an unkind construc- tion on it . " " I thought she was proposing marriage to me , and I accepted her . Was that unkind ? " Isabel smiled . " It was unkind to me . I don't want you ...
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... took was extreme , the necessity appeared to them , and could not but appear to them , extreme also . They might feel that they had only a choice of evils . Here , as in the principal acts of Cromwell , the moral question is intricate ...
... took was extreme , the necessity appeared to them , and could not but appear to them , extreme also . They might feel that they had only a choice of evils . Here , as in the principal acts of Cromwell , the moral question is intricate ...
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... took on the contrary a keen and active interest in the affairs of their day ; that indeed their literary as well as their social importance depends quite as much on their slashing and bitter satire as on their always sweet but ...
... took on the contrary a keen and active interest in the affairs of their day ; that indeed their literary as well as their social importance depends quite as much on their slashing and bitter satire as on their always sweet but ...
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... took delight in writing poetry , and he left his studies and became a joglar ( wandering min- strel ) . And he acquired a certain manner of writing in difficult rhymes , for which reason his songs are by no means easy to understand or ...
... took delight in writing poetry , and he left his studies and became a joglar ( wandering min- strel ) . And he acquired a certain manner of writing in difficult rhymes , for which reason his songs are by no means easy to understand or ...
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... took him into his own house , and roasted him over huge fires , and made little dinners for him , collecting other tropical per- sons to meet him . But very soon Sir Gus found out that it was not over . He found out that not to be ...
... took him into his own house , and roasted him over huge fires , and made little dinners for him , collecting other tropical per- sons to meet him . But very soon Sir Gus found out that it was not over . He found out that not to be ...
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Page 364 - Were with his heart, and that was far away ; He recked not of the life he lost, nor prize ; But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother, — he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday.
Page 230 - Revenge with a swarthier alien crew, And away she sail'd with her loss and long'd for her own ; When a wind from the lands they had ruin'd awoke from sleep, And the water began to heave and the weather to moan, And or ever that evening ended a great gale blew, And a wave like the wave that is raised by an earthquake grew, Till it smote on their hulls and their sails and their masts and their flags, And the whole sea plunged and fell on the shot-shatter'd navy of Spain, And the little Revenge herself...
Page 197 - And I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have any jurisdiction, power, superiority, preeminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm; so help me God.
Page 232 - We should be seen, my dear; they would spy us out of the town. The loud black nights for us, and the storm rushing over the down, When I cannot see my own hand, but am led by the creak of the chain, And grovel and grope for my son till I find myself drenched with the rain.
Page 232 - And if he be lost — but to save my soul, that is all your desire — Do you think that I care for my soul if my boy be gone to the fire? I have been with God in the...
Page 365 - And in poetry, no less than in life, he is * a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.
Page 362 - the splendid and imperishable excellence which covers all his offences and outweighs all his defects: the excellence of sincerity and strength.
Page 203 - God ; and in Public Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments I will use the Form in ' the said Book prescribed, and none other, except so far as shall be ordered by lawful
Page 203 - War, but who were unwilling, because unable, to give their unfeigned assent and consent to all and everything contained in the Book of Common Prayer.
Page 230 - Valour of delicate women who tended the hospital bed, Horror of women in travail among the dying and dead, Grief for our perishing children, and never a moment for grief, Toil and ineffable weariness, faltering hopes of relief...