First love and last love, Volume 1; Volume 1741868 |
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Page 214 - Let us adore the supremacy of that divine sun, the god-head who illuminates all, who recreates all, from whom all proceed, to whom all must return, whom we invoke to direct our understandings aright in our progress towards his holy seat.
Page 165 - And kill them wherever ye find them, and turn them out of that whereof they have dispossessed you; for temptation to idolatry is more grievous than slaughter : yet fight not against them in the holy temple, until they attack you therein; but if they attack you, slay them there.
Page 144 - Some unborn sorrow, ripe in Fortune's womb, Is coming tow'rd me ; and my inward soul With something trembles, yet at nothing grieves, More than with parting from my lord the King.
Page 115 - Who lets it hop a little from her hand, Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves, And with a silk thread pulls it back again, So loving jealous of his liberty.
Page 71 - ... garden ! Here — shrined in the mountain waste ! What beauty, too, — what order ! Only look ! Geoffrey — I am amazed ! Tristan — What man is he that owns This witching spot ? You know the country well, And dwell hard by. Geoffrey — Indeed, I cannot say. Of such a paradise I never dreamed. A garden of the tropics — studded o'er With all rare flowers ! Behold the lofty palms I Tristan — The mansion rising through — how beautiful ! Half hid with ivy and the clambering rose!
Page 175 - Brahmins all, proud as Lucifer, they deemed that to them of right belonged the treasures and the empire of India. Hampered with debt, they looked for the day of a general spoliation. Chafing under restraint, they panted to indulge themselves in unbridled rapine and licence.
Page 20 - ... it, and it was only clumsy ; yet none the less was he haunted by the patient eyes, the mute appealing sorrow that spoke so humbly to his heart. What if this girl, whose affection he had never doubted, did really not love him after all ? What if the fancy that he knew she had entertained for him was but a girl's fancy for the first man who had roused her vanity and flattered her self-esteem...
Page 78 - there is no harm at all in kissing one's cousin when one likes — it is quite as harmless and much nicer than kissing one's sister, and is on the whole a very pretty occupation.