Memories of George MeredithConstable, 1919 - 151 pages |
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Page 145 - Then let our trust be firm in Good, Though we be of the fasting; Our questions are a mortal brood, Our work is everlasting. We children of Beneficence Are in its being sharers; And Whither vainer sounds than Whence, For word with such wayfarers.
Page 48 - tis faint. Ah, Christ ! see the fall'n eyelids of a saint." CAMFLLA. " Our life is but a little holding, lent To do a mighty labour : wo are one With heaven and the stars when it is spent To serve God's aim : else die we with the sun.
Page 99 - Thou under stress of the strife Shalt hear for sustainment supreme The cry of the conscience of Life: Keep the young generations in hail, And bequeath them no tumbled house!
Page 32 - Bateman) in Macbeth. During supper he explained the acting of the sleep-walking scene to mother, and wishing to describe the way that Lady Macbeth pushed the palms of her hands from nose to ear, he said, ' My dear Mrs. Brandreth, I assure you that she came through her hands like a corpse stricken with mania in the act of resurrection 1
Page 90 - ... rock-sources ; and his woes and wants, Being Nature's, civil limitation daunts His utterance never ; the nymphs blush, not he. Him, when he blows of Earth, and Man, and Fate, The Muse will hearken to with graver ear Than many of her train can waken : him Would fain have taught what fruitful things and dear Must sink beneath the tidewaves, of their weight, If in no vessel built for sea they swim.
Page 141 - And we go, And we drop like the fruits of the tree, Even we, Even so.