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Page 69 of 1031911 · PDF PAGE 67
… was shewn all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time, and many other things of great use and beauty. Then I took my leave of the old man of the tower, and boarded the shallop that I had made, when he cried out piteously that he feared earthquake, and asked me for my aid. So with a heart both heavy and light I abandoned my shallop and the dreadful labour of its fashioning, and came back to him. Then came earthquake as he had foreseen; and he and the boats also were swallowed up. In the tidal wave of the earthquake I was borne far away, e…
1911 · PDF PAGE 67
… was shewn all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time, and many other things of great use and beauty. Then I took my leave of the old man of the tower, and boarded the shallop that I had made, when he cried out piteously that he feared earthquake, and asked me for my aid. So with a heart both heavy and light I abandoned my shallop and the dreadful labour of its fashioning, and came back to him. Then came earthquake as he had foreseen; and he and the boats also were swallowed up. In the tidal wave of the earthquake I was borne far away, e…
1922 · PDF PAGE 147
…nd I think I must do what I can for you. Excuse me while I talk to my friend here.” Lou turned on me with a triumphant smile; one of her old proud smiles, except that it was wrung, so to speak, out of the heart of unspeakable agony. Meanwhile, the commissario was gesticulating and shouting at the consul, who replied with equal volubility but an apparently unsurmountable languor. Then the conversation stopped suddenly short. The two men rose to their feet. “T’ve arranged it with my friend here on the basis of his experience of the bold, bad, Bri…
1907 · PDF PAGE 35
… convenient for the Second where I usually live. The King my Father lives in the First; he’s never to be seen, you know. He’s very, very old nowadays; I am practically Regent of course. You must never forget that I am really He; only one generation back is not so far, and I entirely represent his thought. Soon," he whispered ever so softly, “you will be a mother; there will be a Fairy Prince again to run away with another pretty little Sleepy head. Then I saw S mbola odos Chamelionis S bola G ius et Serpens Mons Abiegnus v. Cnvernarum Cnput can…
1922 · PDF PAGE 65
…f her glittering garment. She stood in the middle of the room, and drank a champagne glass half -full of liqueur brandy. The entrancing boldness of her gesture started me screaming inwardly. I jumped up like a crouching tiger that suddenly sees a stag. Lou was giggling all over with irrepressible excite- ment. I know “ giggling all over” isn’t English; but I can’t express it any other way. She checked my rush as if she had been playing full back in an International Rugger match. “Get the scissors,’ she whispered. I understood in a second what s…
1907 · PDF PAGE 51
…leasant reminder, Shall we sup? ANGELA, Yes; a magnum of Pol Roger, ’84— GLENSTRAE. With a dash of brandy in it— ANGELA. Will clothe our old loves in a halo of romance again. GLENSTRAE. Ha! Ha! We wear well, eh? ‘There, there! (Opens the carriage door.) The Carlton. (/ollows and shuts door.) [Sik PERCY and MOLLY part. The effect of hts last dose ts worn off; clutching hts prescription, he goes off with set teeth. MOLLY goes the other way: to her enter a theatre- £oer. MOLLY. Won’t you come with me, ducky? THEATRE-GORR. Not to-night. See you som…
1913 · PDF PAGE 419
… the sacred laurel, his eyes turned towards the East, and he sings. He sings of the luminous arrows of love that traverse the shadows of old Chaos, the waves of soft, clear light, flowing from the black teats of the mother of the gods, from which hang the two children, Eros and Anteros. He says the song of Adonis returning to life in answer to the complaint of Venus, reviving like a flower under the shining dew of her 121
1913 · PDF PAGE 419
… the sacred laurel, his eyes turned towards the East, and he sings. He sings of the luminous arrows of love that traverse the shadows of old Chaos, the waves of soft, clear light, flowing from the black teats of the mother of the gods, from which hang the two children, Eros and Anteros. He says the song of Adonis returning to life in answer to the complaint of Venus, reviving like a flower under the shining dew of her 121
1919 · PDF PAGE 247
…x his austerities as his power increases. Make power and splen- dour incompatible, and the social problem is solved. “Who is that ragged old man gnawing a dry crust by yon- der cabin?” “That is the President of the Republic.” Where honour is the only possible good to be gained by the exercise of power, the man in power will strive only for honour. The above is an extreme case; no one need go so far nowa- days; and it is important that the President should have been used to terrapin and bécasse flambé before he went into politics. You will ask h…
1929 · PDF PAGE 17
…oggedly enough, though his head hung lower than ever. Kelker shows tray sho. Voo savvy?tray tray shopar propre! The shopman, not yet old enough to master his dis- gust at the familiar incident, brought forward several books of photographs.
1929 · PDF PAGE 147
…It sticks up out of the level jungle without apology. It is supposed to by unclimbable save by the artificial gallery which was built of old when a city flourished on the summit. We hung about for some days, as I wanted to walk round the rock and try and find a way up. But the scheme was impracticable. One could not cut one's way through so many miles of thick jungle, and if one did one would have to be a monkey to be sure of getting a view. The only incident was that I came across my first buffalo. In the course of a ramble, I had come out upo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 530
…new discoveries. This after all is what science requires. I have already given a number of other instances where fresh facts confirm the old. For myself in particular the ultimate fact is that I have been able to govern my life quite satisfactorily year after year on the basis of this theory. My life, interpreted by it, is intelligible, and when guided by it, successful. Whenever I do anything reasonable I come a cropper, and if I were to attempt to explain the events of my career in any other way, I should be confronted by a piled chaos of utt…
1909 · PDF PAGE 236
…then how canst thou, thou little mote dancing in the beam of mine eye, hope to span me?” Thus God at the outset comes to us and like the old witch in “ Cinderella” strews innumerable lentils before us to count—but begin ! and soon you will find that you have left the kitchen of the world behind you and have entered the enchanted Palace “‘ Beyond.” It is all very difficult and complex at first; it is rather like a man who, setting out by a strange road to visit the capital of his country, comes to a great mountain and gazes up its all but endles…
1909 · PDF PAGE 236
…then how canst thou, thou little mote dancing in the beam of mine eye, hope to span me?” Thus God at the outset comes to us and like the old witch in “ Cinderella” strews innumerable lentils before us to count—but begin ! and soon you will find that you have left the kitchen of the world behind you and have entered the enchanted Palace “‘ Beyond.” It is all very difficult and complex at first; it is rather like a man who, setting out by a strange road to visit the capital of his country, comes to a great mountain and gazes up its all but endles…
1922 · PDF PAGE 55
…y and have a perfectly glorious time for ever and ever. We sent for emergency clothes in the town, and went stalking a parson. He was an old man who had lived for years out of the world. He saw nothing
1954 · PDF PAGE 159
…meaning of the MU root of Mystery. However, we must admit the value of rhythmical, one-pointed sound; that is very different from Noise. Old French has noise, nose, a debate, quarrel, noise; Provencal noisa, nausa, nueiza. But Diez claims the derivation from nausea-and by the Living Jingo, I consider Diez a hundred percent white man! I once had a most wholesome lesson: how diffuse and therefore unnecessary is much of even our most would-be-compressed speech. I had been charged by my Superior with the reconstruction of a certain ritual. This was…
1954 · PDF PAGE 429
…. But, after all, it is the same difficulty which every child finds when he begins any study of any kind. In Latin, for instance, he is told that mensa means a table, that it belongs to the first declension and is feminine. There is no why about any of this; no explanation is possible; the child has to pick up the elements of the language one by one, taking what he is taught on trust. And it is only after accumulating a vast collection of unintelligible details that the jig-saw pieces fall into place, and he finds himself able to construe the c…
1929 · PDF PAGE 85
… precisely as he had left them. On inquiry it appeared that the house was vacant owing to the proprietor (a bachelor of some sixty years old, who had lived there a long while with a man and wife to keep house for him) having been ordered to the south of France for the winter. He had led a very retired life, seeing no company; the house had been furnished in early Victorian style. Only the one room where Eckenstein had had supper was unfurnished. The agent explained this by saying that the old man had taken the effects of his study with him to F…
1907 · PDF PAGE 36
…Dear love, I love you. SIR PERCY. Ah, love, love, how I love you. This is the world! Love! Love! I love you so, my darling. Oh my white golden heart of glory ! MOLLY. I love you, love you so. Sir PERcy. Ah, God! I love yow! I shall faint with love. I love you so. [ANGELA, LADY BAIRD, 7s azscovcred behind the trees. She suffers the torments of hell, ANGELA (while the duet continues). Ah ! if there were a devil to buy souls, Or ifI had not sold mine! Quick bargain, God ! Hell catch the jade! cheeks ! Rot her snub nose! Poison devour her guts! Wit…
1919 · PDF PAGE 101
… the pure and voluptuous, the chaste and obscene, the androgyne and the gynander that have passed beyond the bars of the prison that the old Slime of Khem set up in the Gates of Amennti. 45. O my adorable, my delicious one, all night will I pour out the libation on Thine altars; all night will I burn the sac- rifice of blood; all night will I swing the thurible of my de- light before Thee, and the fervour of the orisons shall in- toxicate Thy nostrils. 46. O Thou who camest from the land of the Elephant, girt about with the tiger’s pell, and ga…