In the Dozy Hours, and Other PapersHoughton, Mifflin, 1894 - 235 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 36 - Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!
الصفحة 60 - Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
الصفحة 197 - My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage, or a peasant ; nor can I reflect without pleasure on the bounty of Nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilized country, in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honourable rank, and decently endowed with the gifts of fortune.
الصفحة 17 - As, timing well the equal sound, Thy clutching feet bepat the ground, And all their harmless claws disclose, Like prickles of an early rose; While softly from thy whiskered cheek Thy half-closed eyes peer mild and meek.
الصفحة 157 - THE light of our cigarettes Went and came in the gloom : It was dark in the little room. Dark, and then, in the dark, Sudden, a flash, a glow, And a hand and a ring I know. And then, through the dark, a flush Ruddy and vague, the grace (A rose !) of her lyric face. SALON DU CHAMP-DE-MARS, PARIS, Maj 20, 1890. 104 UNDER the heaven of her brows...
الصفحة 74 - ... which is to keep man from a self-satisfaction which is retarding and vulgarizing, to lead him towards perfection, by making his mind dwell upon what is excellent in itself, and the absolute beauty and fitness of things.
الصفحة 19 - Ah ! many a lightly sportive child, Who hath, like thee, our wits beguiled, To dull and sober manhood grown, With strange recoil our hearts disown. Even so, poor Kit! must thou...
الصفحة 18 - To dull and sober manhood grown, With strange recoil our hearts disown. Even so, poor Kit ! must thou endure, When thou becom'st a cat demure, Full many a cuff and angry word, •Chid roughly from the tempting board. And yet, for that thou hast, I ween, So oft our...
الصفحة 23 - After a few weak remonstrances, the futility of which I too clearly understood, her persistence carried the day. I removed my clothing from the closet, spread a shawl upon the floor, had the door taken from its hinges, and resigned myself, for the first time in my life, to the daily and hourly companionship of an infant. "I was amply rewarded. People who require the household cat to rear her offspring in some remote attic or dark corner of the cellar have no idea of all the diversion and pleasure...