The Strand Magazine, Volumen 37Herbert Greenhough Smith G. Newnes, 1909 |
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Página 536 - Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths : but I say unto you, Swear not at all : neither by heaven ; for it is God's throne : nor by the earth ; for it is his footstool...
Página 7 - Pharisee's house, she brought an alabaster cruse of ointment, and standing behind at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
Página 441 - The ox hath therefore stretch'd his yoke in vain, The ploughman lost his sweat, and the green corn Hath rotted, ere his youth attain'da beard: The fold stands empty in the drowned field, And crows are fatted with the murrain flock; The nine men's morris* is fill'd up with mud ; And the quaint mazes in the wanton green, For lack of tread, are undistinguishable...
Página 719 - I often think it's comical How Nature always does contrive That every boy and every gal, That's born into the world alive, Is either a little Liberal, Or else a little Conservative!
Página 441 - The intervals between each of these rows are filled up with a kind of tessellated pavement, the middle whereof represents a maze or labyrinth, about ten feet in diameter, and so artfully contrived, that were we to suppose a man following all the intricate meanders of its volutes, he could not travel less than a mile before he got from one end to the other.
Página 142 - I declare, Elicited something resembling an air. It was wild — it was fitful — as wild as the breeze — It wandered about into several keys; It was jerky, spasmodic, and harsh, I'm aware, But still it distinctly suggested an air. The Sassenach screamed, and the Sassenach danced, He shrieked...
Página 11 - thorough gentleman " as the equivalent of Aboo Hasan's title. European galimatias about " the smiles of the fair," etc., looks very mean beside
Página 441 - A Midsummer Night's Dream, ii. 1. " My old bones ache : here's a maze trod indeed, Through forth-rights and meanders ! " The Tempest, iii. 3. There was such a maze at Comberton, in Cambridgeshire, and another, locally called the " miz-maze," at Leigh, in Dorset. The latter was on the highest part of a field on the top of a hill, a quarter of a mile from the village, and was slightly hollow in the middle and enclosed by a bank about 3 feet high. It was circular, and was thirty paces in diameter.
Página 540 - Come to prayer! . . . God is great. God is great. There is no god but God.
Página 167 - We arrived early, and after placing my wife in a seat I moved about the room speaking to friends here and there. In the course of ten minutes or so Lady Radnor and Miss A. entered the room. During the greetings which ensued Miss A. called my attention to a standing figure, saying : " You will remember my seeing a lady in her bedroom while I was looking in my crystal ; that is the lady I saw.