The Beginning of Wisdom, by Stephen Vincent BenétHenry Holt, 1921 - 357 Seiten |
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Seite 71 - And ride in triumph through Persepolis!" Is it not brave to be a king, Techelles? Usumcasane and Theridamas, Is it not passing brave to be a king, "And ride in triumph through Persepolis?
Seite 317 - When. thou hearest the fool rejoicing, and he saith, 'It is over and past, And the wrong was better than right, and hate turns into love at the last, And we strove for nothing at all, and the Gods are fallen asleep; For so good is the world a growing that the evil good shall reap...
Seite 211 - ... star. Old Aunt Fate has often said How much alike we are. Lilith, she's my sweetheart Till my heartstrings break, Most of her is honey-pale And all of her is snake. Sweet as secret thievery, I kiss her all I can, While Somebody Above remarks 'That's not a nice young man!
Seite 103 - I think I do; With vigour unshaken This step shall be taken. It's neatly planned. RICH. I think so too; I'll readily bet it You'll never regret it! BOTH. For duty, duty must be done; The rule applies to every one, And painful though that duty be, To shirk the task were fiddle-de-dee!
Seite 348 - I will become a pilgrim, And walk as wide ' as the world lasteth To seek Piers the Plowman.' The dreamer wakes and the poem ends. Langland, like Milton, holds that, amid the disasters of the world, God's gift of patience must make each man his own deliverer. Many years later, perhaps almost twenty, a new version of the poem was issued. Skeat has named this the C-text. The most...
Seite 78 - You come with us Friday night," yells the classmate and he and the Juniors ramp away like the close of a waking dream. The fraternities, singing loud, rock off the campus — Noise dies, against Philip's eyes night is cool and dark. Through the tatter of elm-leaves he can see three silver pricking points that must be stars. . . . Tom congratulates him gravely. Philip feels happy, enormously relieved and — let down, like a man after a strenuous ten minutes in the hot-room of a Turkish Bath. "Come...
Seite 357 - Some shall sew the sacks for fear the wheat be spilt, And ye wives that have wool work it fast. Look forth your linen, labor ye hard on it. See the needy and naked, take thought how they lie. Throw clothes upon them. Truth would love that. For I shall give the poor a living as long as I live, For the Lord's love in Heaven unless the land fail.
Seite 43 - Sylvia in a sun-bitten, short bathing-suit, the brown swimming child of sea-sound and a mermaid, as beautiful and sexless a thing as the flight of a gull over waves. And in the crystalline hours before night's large stars, when evening departs with the languid magnificence of an argosy and the sky seems made of clear colors and dreams and the single cries of birds, Philip, lying beside the brimstone sparks of a driftwood fire, drinks in with every breath of his body this saturating and exhaustless...
Seite 185 - Americans, for the purpose of arresting on the charges of vagrancy, treason, and of being disturbers of the peace of Cochise County all those strange men who have congregated here from other parts and sections for the purpose of harassing and intimidating all men who desire to pursue their daily toil.