The end of the house of Alard ...B. Tauchnitz, 1924 - 366 páginas |
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Página 236 - O GOD, Who hast prepared for them that love Thee such good things as pass man's understanding ; pour into our hearts such love toward Thee, that we, loving Thee above all things, may obtain Thy promises, which exceed all that we can desire ; through JESUS CHRIST our LORD. Amen.
Página 253 - And that I may go unto the altar of GOD, even unto the GOD of my joy and gladness : and upon the harp will I give thanks unto thee, O GOD, my GOD.
Página 340 - And may the souls of the faithful, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
Página 4 - And a new people takes the land: and still it is not we. They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords, Lords without anger and honour, who dare not carry their swords. They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes; They look at our labour and laughter as a tired man looks at flies.
Página 346 - Free among the dead, like unto them that are wounded, and lie in the grave, who are out of remembrance, and are cut away from thy hand.
Página 141 - Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of heaven as a little child, shall in no wise enter therein.
Página 364 - Alará with a challenge to the family, one of the characters crying out : " Is our family worth such sacrifices? ... It can only be kept up by continual sacrifices of the land, of the tenants, of its own children. It is like a wicked old dying god, that can only be kept alive by sacrifices — human sacrifices." In Adam and Eve Erskine applies a light irony to the foundations of the family, and his picture of Eve constraining Adam to domesticity and making the poor fish like it is a definite satire...
Página 346 - Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in the place of darkness, and in the deep : I am so fast in prison that I cannot get forth. My lovers and friends hast Thou put away from me, and hid mine acquaintance out of my sight.
Página 106 - Gervase, was a faith which did not depend on the beauty of externals for its appeal — a faith, moreover, which was not afraid to make itself hard to men, which threw up round itself massive barriers of hardship, and yet within these was warm and sweet and friendly, which was furthermore a complete adventure, a taking of infinite risks, a gateway on unknown dangers.
Página 203 - She liked his eyes, because they were not the brown bovine eyes of the mixed race who had supplanted the original South Saxons, but the eyes of the Old People, who had been there before the Norman stirred French syllables into the homebrew of Sussex names. They were the eyes of her own people, though she herself had them not, and they would be the eyes of her children...