Alton Locke: Tailor and Poet. An AutobiographyHarper & brothers, 1850 - 371 pagina's |
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Pagina 8
... beauty would have become the very element which I breathed ; and yet , what would have come of that ? Should I not , as nobler spirits than I have done , have idled away my life in Elysian eams , singing out like a bird into the air ...
... beauty would have become the very element which I breathed ; and yet , what would have come of that ? Should I not , as nobler spirits than I have done , have idled away my life in Elysian eams , singing out like a bird into the air ...
Pagina 11
... beauty , their freedom . At last I made up my mind , in the simple tenderness of a child's conscience , that it was wrong to rob them of the liberty for which I pined - to take them away from the beautiful broad country whither I longed ...
... beauty , their freedom . At last I made up my mind , in the simple tenderness of a child's conscience , that it was wrong to rob them of the liberty for which I pined - to take them away from the beautiful broad country whither I longed ...
Pagina 47
... beauty's eloquence . Those massive and beetling brows , gleaming with the lambent flames of patriotic ardor — what is needed to unfold them into a race of Shakspeares and of Gracchi , ready to proclaim with sword and lyre the divine ...
... beauty's eloquence . Those massive and beetling brows , gleaming with the lambent flames of patriotic ardor — what is needed to unfold them into a race of Shakspeares and of Gracchi , ready to proclaim with sword and lyre the divine ...
Pagina 69
... beauty , ! perhaps because so utterly unaccustomed to it . " It is indeed a wonderful picture , " I said , timidly . " May I ask what is the subject of it ? " " Oh ! don't you know ? " said the young beauty , with a smile that thrilled ...
... beauty , ! perhaps because so utterly unaccustomed to it . " It is indeed a wonderful picture , " I said , timidly . " May I ask what is the subject of it ? " " Oh ! don't you know ? " said the young beauty , with a smile that thrilled ...
Pagina 70
... beauty and her companion looked back toward me , and seemed talking of me , and my face was burning scarlet , when my cousin swung up in his hard , off - hand way . my name " By Jove , Alton , my boy ! you're a knowing fellow . I ...
... beauty and her companion looked back toward me , and seemed talking of me , and my face was burning scarlet , when my cousin swung up in his hard , off - hand way . my name " By Jove , Alton , my boy ! you're a knowing fellow . I ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 283 - If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us; but if we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Pagina 29 - A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay...
Pagina 344 - They will not be learned nor understand, but walk on still in darkness : all the foundations of the earth are out of course. 6 I have said, Ye are gods : and ye are all the children of the most Highest.
Pagina 229 - Dee.' They rowed her in across the rolling foam, The cruel, crawling foam, The cruel, hungry foam, To her grave beside the sea ; But still the boatmen hear her call the cattle home, Across the sands o
Pagina 344 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Pagina 368 - Thou art, of what sort the eternal life of the saints was to be, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.
Pagina 229 - The Western wind was wild and dank with foam, And all alone went she. The creeping tide came up along the sand, And o'er and o'er the sand, And round and round the sand, As far as eye could see; The blinding mist came down and hid the land; And never home came she.