The Crimson WeedDuckworth & Company, 1900 - 338 páginas |
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Página 16
... expression . Then he began pulling out some canvases which were stacked against the wall . Maria's face looked out from most of them -Maria as a Medusa , Maria as a Bacchante , Maria standing under a tree in the wood , Maria in the ...
... expression . Then he began pulling out some canvases which were stacked against the wall . Maria's face looked out from most of them -Maria as a Medusa , Maria as a Bacchante , Maria standing under a tree in the wood , Maria in the ...
Página 19
... expressions of appreciation of the fineness of a picture , or the singularity of a piece of armour , were ignored . Unlike most collectors , the count was indifferent to any acknowledgment of the rarity and preciousness of his treasures ...
... expressions of appreciation of the fineness of a picture , or the singularity of a piece of armour , were ignored . Unlike most collectors , the count was indifferent to any acknowledgment of the rarity and preciousness of his treasures ...
Página 21
... expression too vehement to be beautiful , came back again in the gentlest of smiles . He had reverenced the simplicity of her character . She was incapable of the futile affectations of many of There were no muddy machinations in it of ...
... expression too vehement to be beautiful , came back again in the gentlest of smiles . He had reverenced the simplicity of her character . She was incapable of the futile affectations of many of There were no muddy machinations in it of ...
Página 28
... expression of it in her face , he met only those changeless eyes which looked at nothing , thought of nothing , dreamt of nothing . Her large solemn mouth , unaccustomed to the passage of words , irritated him . Even the intense ...
... expression of it in her face , he met only those changeless eyes which looked at nothing , thought of nothing , dreamt of nothing . Her large solemn mouth , unaccustomed to the passage of words , irritated him . Even the intense ...
Página 60
... expression his face had worn . But it returned to trouble him , and once he was very near telling the cabman to drive back to Staple Inn . It was easy to imagine Grey doing some wild and desperate thing . If he was miserable what might ...
... expression his face had worn . But it returned to trouble him , and once he was very near telling the cabman to drive back to Staple Inn . It was easy to imagine Grey doing some wild and desperate thing . If he was miserable what might ...
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Alan Rich Algernon Grey's ambassadors of death answer asked beauty better Cecilia child cold Count Rabucca Cramlington cried dark dead death door dream Eastney EDWARD H eyes face father feel felt Fontegioia forget forgive gone grew Grosvenor Place hair hand happy heard Henry James James's kissed knew laughed light Lingwarden lips listen live London looked Lord Wynstone Luca Luke Grey Luke's Madame Elna Maria Rabucca marriage married mind minute mother never night once Ottavio Otway's pain passion perhaps Racehorses realise recognised remember Ribes Rinster Rome round Savile seemed Sfonelli silence Sir Gilbert smiled soul spoke St James's Gazette Staple Staple Inn stood story strange Suddenly suffered talk tell Teresa thing thought to-night told touch trembled Tullio turned Uncle Algy voice walk Wentworth House wish woman women wonderful words write
Passagens conhecidas
Página 142 - Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law ; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office.
Página 73 - To be imprisoned in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world; or to be worse than worst Of those, that lawless and uncertain thoughts Imagine howling; 'tis too horrible!
Página 70 - But : The moving finger writes, and having writ, Moves on; nor all your piety nor wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it.
Página 23 - Nous nous embrassions par nos noms : et à nostre premiere rencontre, qui feut par hazard en une grande feste et compaignie de ville , nous nous trouvasmes si prins, si cogneus, si obligez entre nous , que rien dez lors ne nous feut si proche que l'un à l'aultre.
Página 122 - Our souls, whose faculties can comprehend The wondrous architecture of the world, And measure every wandering planet's course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite, And always moving as the restless spheres, Will us to wear ourselves, and never rest, Until we reach the ripest fruit of all, That perfect bliss and sole felicity, The sweet fruition of an earthly crown.
Página 177 - Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, In which he puts alms for oblivion.
Página 122 - ... instinct for social sanctions, or one can prize his power to inquire, to explore, to reason, to master and to adjust life to his purposes. My choice is for the vision of 'man portrayed by Christopher Marlowe: Our souls whose faculties can comprehend The wondrous architecture of the world And measure every wandering planet's course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite And ever moving with restless spheres, Will us to wear ourselves, and never rest.