A Daughter of this World

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Dodd, Mead, 1893 - Всего страниц: 382
 

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Стр. 187 - ... nigher, Until the lengthening wings break into fire At either curved point, — what bitter wrong Can the earth do to us, that we should not long Be here contented? Think. In mounting higher, The angels would press on us and aspire To drop some golden orb of perfect song Into our deep, dear silence. Let us stay Rather on earth, Beloved, - where the unfit Contrarious moods of men recoil away And isolate pure spirits, and permit A place to stand and love in for a day, With darkness and the death-hour...
Стр. 102 - If we regard his sufferings, one plain reflection presents itself: " greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friend.
Стр. 82 - ... to be all on fire with divine love. He had in his hand a long golden dart, and at the end of the point methought there was a little fire ; and I conceived that he thrust it several times through my heart after such a manner that it passed through my very bowels ; and when he drew it out, methought it pulled them out with it, and left me wholly inflamed with a great love of God.
Стр. 312 - you see, at last, the struggle between the body and the soul. You see conscience forced to yield, even in a redoubt which it had believed impregnable.
Стр. 82 - Dart of gold in his hand; and at the end of the iron below, methought there was a little fire ; and I conceived that he thrust it several times through my heart after such a manner...
Стр. 93 - And yet we see, in a book issued to guide souls in the way of holiness, the following maxim, quoted from Molinos, as a maxim of the inward life, so called : " It is impossible for a man to be able to live a life of holiness, if he does not first die to himself by a total denial of all wrong appetites and passions, and by the crucifixion of the pride of natural reason.
Стр. 350 - ... cannot describe it. All the moral strength I felt in me is slowly giving way to despair (not on personal matters, but it is a kind of Job's despair, who asks God why he gives all to the wicked) . I am trying to write another book, because the Balzac will take too long — a history of my own life. You know me well enough to be sure that I will not dwell on my books or personal successes and stories of women — I will depict Vienna and the Jewish Vienna, the war and our fight in the war, our...
Стр. 105 - There, now ! I said there'd be a wedding when I saw you in St. Luke's graveyard with him. A sweet young couple indeed. Ah ! it does an old woman's heart good to let her eyes fall on such.
Стр. 174 - In a moment the door was opened, and she found herself face to face with the priest. " What is it ? " he asked severely, barring the doorway. " I will come in. I wish to speak to you.

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