Maitland Varne, Or, The Bells of De Thaumaturge

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De Thaumaturge Company, 1911 - 396 pagini

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Pagina 352 - My native country, thee — Land of the noble free — Thy name I love; I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills; My heart with rapture thrills Like that above.
Pagina 59 - DRINK to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine ; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I 'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise, Doth ask a drink divine : But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine. I sent thee late a rosy wreath, Not so much honouring thee, As giving it a hope that there It could not withered be.
Pagina 59 - Drink to me, only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine ; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I'll not look for wine. The thirst, that from the soul doth rise, Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sip, I would not change for thine.
Pagina 91 - Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Pagina 317 - Spirit, any more than a bud would become a blossom without the influence of the sun ; but yet, personal religion is the result of personal choice. A STATE in which the citizen is the pabulum of the state, will soon have nothing left to feed on. THE church was built to disturb the peace of man ; but often it does not perform its duty, for fear of disturbing the peace of the church. What kind of artillery practice would that be which declined to fire for fear of kicking over the gun carriages, or waking...
Pagina 35 - ... which being placed on eminences, natural or artificial, and more especially near roads, were thence called Tothills or Teuthills, and in many instances in various parts of the kingdom are so called at present.
Pagina 364 - ... old garden gay and trim; And the fountain in the centre, with its gleaming marble rim; There were rows of stately lilies, winding walks where roses grew, And a dragon at each corner, fashioned from the hedge of yew. It was called 'My Lady's Garden!
Pagina 22 - ... [Applause.] The great majority of the human race stands just on the edge of necessity. Has the classic genius of Greece and Rome, and the common sense of the Saxon race, given us nothing better than these apples of Sodom for the golden fruit of Paradise ? One-quarter of the human race lives in ease and the other three-fourths contribute to it without sharing it. If that is the end of human existence, let us sit down and blaspheme the God who made us. [Applause.] I am ashamed of the civilization...
Pagina 312 - ... for unto him that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundantly, but unto him that hath not or will not receive, shall be taken away that which he hath, or might have had.
Pagina 36 - He further observes there is no language, ancient or modern, into which this name is so easily and naturally resolvable as the Cimbric or British, and that Theutaut is nothing more nor less than Dhue-Tad, the universal parent or God the father.

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