The Short Story: A Technical and Literary StudyA. C. McClurg & Company, 1928 - 496 стор. |
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Arthur Morrison asked Avdyeeich Bashkirs began Birkendelly called character Charles Scribner's Sons Company cried Dan Spring dark death Doctor Heidegger door dory eyes face Falling Action father feet fiction G. P. Putnam's Sons George Hoodley Goderville hand Harper & Brothers head heard heart Hilary Holmes impression Island McGill knew Kurtz lady Laird land Ligeia live looked Margaret Henan Marjory married Martin Martin Carr Master means mind Miss Phyllis never night old woman Oliver Cromwell once Pakhom passed plot Preliminary Situation Princess Ransie reader Robert Louis Stevenson Samuel seemed Serilla Sherlock Holmes Short Story skipper smiled soul stood story writer strange talk tell theme there's things Thord thot thought tion took tull turned twas Vagabone versts voice walked warn't wife window words wull young
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Сторінка 109 - And the will therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigor? For God is but a great will pervading all things by nature of its intentness. Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.
Сторінка 177 - Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head. Thou gavest me no kiss; but this woman since the time I came in hath not ceased to kiss my feet. My head with oil thou didst not anoint: but this woman hath anointed my feet with ointment. Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth...
Сторінка 176 - Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like: he is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.
Сторінка 143 - Yet, by a strange deception, owing to the duskiness of the chamber, and the antique dresses which they still wore, the tall mirror is said to have reflected the figures of the three old, gray, withered grandsires, ridiculously contending for the skinny ugliness of a shrivelled grandam.
Сторінка 177 - And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.
Сторінка 138 - Patience, patience!" quoth Dr. Heidegger, who sat watching the experiment with philosophic coolness. "You have been a long time growing old; surely you might be content to grow young in half an hour. But the water is at your service." Again he filled their glasses with the liquor of youth, enough of which still remained in the vase to turn half the old people in the city to the age of their own grandchildren. While the bubbles were yet sparkling on the brim the doctor's four guests snatched their...
Сторінка 217 - And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger...
Сторінка 139 - Again he filled their glasses with the liquor of youth, enough of which still remained in the vase to turn half the old people in the city to the age of their own grandchildren. While the bubbles were yet sparkling on the brim, the doctor's four guests snatched their glasses from the table and swallowed the contents at a single gulp. Was it delusion? Even while the draught was passing down their throats it seemed to have wrought a change on their whole systems. Their eyes grew clear and bright ;...
Сторінка 114 - And there are one or two stars in heaven (one especially, a star of the sixth magnitude, double and changeable, to be found near the large star in Lyra) in a telescopic scrutiny of which I have been made aware of the feeling. I have been filled with it by certain sounds from stringed instruments, and not unfrequently by passages from books.
Сторінка 218 - It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.