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Page 70 of 1031929 · PDF PAGE 479
…he top, cheering wildly, to the third floor of 93 Regent Street, broke down the door, which I think was unlocked, and found a dozen mild old people trying to browse on the lush grass of my poetry. The police did not even calculate on the possibility of my revenge. They imprudently entrusted the conduct of the raid to Inspector Currie, though they might have known that I was perfectly capable of some stupid joke about his being hot stuff. The Crown solicitor, too, who conducted the prosecution, was so named that I might have said, Their artiller…
1910 · PDF PAGE 37
29 Oh come to me there, darling ! Lean upon the golden rampart, and watch for me to come ! Be first to meet me, sweetheart ! forgive me for all the wrong I did you here. I will try and be a good wife to you, darling, if you will give me one more chance to hold your love. I had heaven in your kisses, and I went to seek it in the cloister.11 I loved you al- ways ; it was but a boy’s folly ; forgive me ! I may never cling to you on earth again : pray God that Heaven may be one long, long life of such bliss as we had of one another long ago by yon …
1913 · PDF PAGE 155
…s. Now he knew that the huddling together of unhewn stones might build a better Temple than that of Luxor or of Karnak. He had still the old illusion that to succeed on one plane you must fail on another; still thought the mind more than the body, the soul more than the mind; did not see that these three must be one in exactly the same sense as the Christian Trinity (as under- stood by the truest Christians) is One. It was in the course of this illumination that the Truth was ceremonially conveyed to him on the Magical plane, although it was no…
1913 · PDF PAGE 545
…eath. If such and such a celebrated man, for example, had not scandalously solicited wealth, would one ever have thought of endowing his old muse? Who would have left him legacies? Virtue has our admiration, our purse owes it nothing, that great lady is rich enough without us. One would rather give to vice, it is so poor! “T do not like beggars, and I only give to the poor who are ashamed to beg,” said one day a man of wit. ‘ But what do you give them since you do not know them?” “TI give them my admiration and my esteem, and I have no need to …
1913 · PDF PAGE 155
…s. Now he knew that the huddling together of unhewn stones might build a better Temple than that of Luxor or of Karnak. He had still the old illusion that to succeed on one plane you must fail on another; still thought the mind more than the body, the soul more than the mind; did not see that these three must be one in exactly the same sense as the Christian Trinity (as under- stood by the truest Christians) is One. It was in the course of this illumination that the Truth was ceremonially conveyed to him on the Magical plane, although it was no…
1913 · PDF PAGE 545
…eath. If such and such a celebrated man, for example, had not scandalously solicited wealth, would one ever have thought of endowing his old muse? Who would have left him legacies? Virtue has our admiration, our purse owes it nothing, that great lady is rich enough without us. One would rather give to vice, it is so poor! “T do not like beggars, and I only give to the poor who are ashamed to beg,” said one day a man of wit. ‘ But what do you give them since you do not know them?” “TI give them my admiration and my esteem, and I have no need to …
1944 · PDF PAGE 11
…r surpasses belief. She had to work from his very rough sketches, often from mere descriptions, or from reading between the lines of the old packs. She devoted her genius to the Work. With incredible rapidity she picked up the rhythm, and with inex‐ haustible patience submitted to the corrections of the fanatical slave‐driver that she had in‐ voked, often painting the same card as many as eight times until it measured up to his Vana‐ dium Steel yardstick! May the passionate “love under will” which she has stored in this Treasury of Truth and Be…
1929 · PDF PAGE 350
…individual affairs. One keeps one's powder and shot for people who attack one's work itself. And even this is often useless. The Buddha told his disciples not to combat error. If it had only seven heads like the Lennean hydra it might be possible to sterilize the necks after each operation sufficiently long to finish the job before they grow again. But modern hydras have not this pitiful paucity of talking machines. Hardly a month passes but I hear some new and perfectly fantastic yarn about myself, sometimes flattering, sometimes the reverse, …
1907 · PDF PAGE 74
…ke? um !—‘‘ Leave the postern door ajar”’—well, it is ajar—‘‘that I may speak with your beauty on the stairs” —um—can’t meet him there. Cold! cold! [Snzfs.] A pretty letter. [Zhrozws it aside.) Andrew ! some more logs. [Her ANDREW.] I expect company. [Chuckles long.] The old Burgundy, Andrew. [#xz¢ ANDREW.] I propose to squeeze Duke Charles’ grapes, though fate and my age forbid me a smack at his forces — neu sinas Medos equttare tnultos—but our good King is no Augustus. [Strikes gong. Enter PRIEST quietly and quickly, ALAIN does not turn round…
1922 · PDF PAGE 374
…h formed the only means of access to the upper rooms. Basil seated himself in one of the thrones, Sister Athena in another; while a very old man with a white beard, and a young woman whom we had not yet seen, took their places in the other two. Without formality of any sort beyond a series of knocks, the ceremony began. The impression was overwhelming. On the one hand, the vastness of the amphitheatre, the sublimity of the scene, and the utter naturalness of the celebrants ; on the other, the amazing distinction of the prose, and the sharp clar…
1929 · PDF PAGE 11
…, almost a corpse. He had come, and he had gone — he had not spoken a single word, not even given a token that he would come again. She told her maid to pack for Paris: but she could not go. Instead, she fell ill. Hysteria became neurasthenia; yet she knew that a single word would cure her. But no word came. Incidentally she heard that Cyril Grey was playing golf at Hoylake; she had a mad impulse to go to find him; another to kill herself. But Lavinia King, perceiving after many days that something was wrong — after many days, for her thoughts …
1929 · PDF PAGE 144
…nd so on; as the crown of Osiris developed into the papal tiara; as the feats of corn and wine were resumed in the Eucharist, so did the old rites of fetish and ancestor worship continue under new names. The old demonology was adapted to Buddhist theories. The primitive instincts of people are ineradicable; their passions and fears always find approximately the same expression, despite the efforts of philosophers and religious reformers. So I was neither surprised nor shocked (as was the more ingenuous Allan) at the devil dances and similar sup…
1911 · PDF PAGE 66
…th a clear mind, and a passionate body: It is the voice ofa god, and not of a man. And now all that glory hath withdrawn itself; and the old King lies prostrate, abject. And the virgin that rode upon the bull cometh forth, led by all those Angels of the Holy Sevenfold Table, and they are dancing round her with garlands and sheaves of flowers, loose robes and hair dancing in the wind. And she smiles upon me 64
1922 · PDF PAGE 225
…rned up after twelve, full of champagne and—SNOW! My aunt, what a lucky day! He was boiling with passion, grabbed me like a hawk. “Well, old girl,” he shouted, “what luck with McCall ? ” I produced my package. ‘“‘ Hurrah, all our troubles are over!” We opened our last three half-bottles of fizz to celebrate the occasion, and he gave me some coke. And I thought I didn’t like it! It’s the finest stuff there is. A sniff to the right and a sniff to the left and a big heap right on my tongue; and that wasn't all. “I tell you what’s been wrong,” he s…
1922 · PDF PAGE 367
…n a tersely epigrammatic form, which Julius Cesar and Martial might despair of editing.”’ He opened the door of the house, repeating his old formula :— “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.” Till that moment I had found the phrase by turns ridiculous, annoying, or tedious. It had completely lost these attributes. The dry bones lived. I thrilled to the marrow as he uttered it. A soft, sweet voice, strangely familiar, answered him out of the vast, dim room. Dim, for the blinding sunlight of the open air was unable wholly to illuminate…
1929 · PDF PAGE 92
…long stairway, damp stonework, narrow, between high walls, that led vertical and steep to the very crest of Posilippo. One could see the old church amid its cluster of houses. Cyril pointed to a house a couple of hundred yards north of the church. It was
1929 · PDF PAGE 16
…boy to biggest retail grocer in the Midlands. Twenty-eight years of wedded happiness had left him with a clear con- science, a five-year old grave to keep in order To the memory of my beloved relict, as he had written until the clerk suggested a trifling alteration, and a strapping daughter just turned twenty. I wish I could stop here. But there is a rough side to every canvas, and Theodore Bugg had forgotten all about England, and what she is, and how he had made her. Or if the good work was going on, it was subcon- scious. He was standing b…
1954 · PDF PAGE 291
258 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS myself at this old riddle of 718. Half-a-dozen comic failures. But I felt that there was something on the way. Idly, I put down Stele in the Greek 52, and said, Perhaps we can make a "name" out of the difference between that and 718. I jumped. 718 - 52 = 666 My own name! Why, of course, quoth he, in glee; it is in fact the Stele of 666; for it is the Stele of Ankh-f-n-khonsu , my name in those past days. Oh no! said Something, that's not good enough! "Count well its name"-the Stele of Ankh-f-n-khonsu: a name is somethin…
1929 · PDF PAGE 290
…nard, was a man over eighty. It was decided to separate for greater safety; but Forrest found it very hard to bring himself to leave the old man, for whom he had acquired extreme respect and affection. However, it was the only thing to do, and Forrest plunged off alone into an obscure side valley hoping to reach the comparative safety of the main road from Tengyueh to Yunnanfu by means of a detour. The nightfall of the second day showed him the camp fires of the lamas on the hills to the south and he recognized that he was cut off. In the light…
1929 · PDF PAGE 31
…! The indifference had appeared transitory; I now became aware of it as con- stant and increasing. I was at this time twenty-three years old. You wonder that I write with such serious atti- tude of mind. I sometimes think that I have never had any thoughts of my own; that I have always been read- ing the thoughts of another, or perhaps of Nature. I seem only to have been a woman in those first few months of marriage. VII The six months following held for me nothing out of the ordinary, save that six or seven times I had dreams, vivid and terrib…