The Masterpieces and the History of Literature: Analysis, Criticism, Character and Incident, Volume 10Julian Hawthorne Hamilton Book Company, 1906 |
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Page 169
... Buteau , dissatisfied at losing the afternoon , took off his jacket and began to thresh , in the paved corner of the court - yard ; for he needed a sack of wheat . But he soon wearied of threshing alone , he wanted FRENCH LITERATURE . 169.
... Buteau , dissatisfied at losing the afternoon , took off his jacket and began to thresh , in the paved corner of the court - yard ; for he needed a sack of wheat . But he soon wearied of threshing alone , he wanted FRENCH LITERATURE . 169.
Page 170
... Buteau persisted , and Françoise , who had already put on an old dress , was forced to follow him . She took a flail , her own . With both hands she made it whirl above her head , bringing it down upon the wheat , which it struck with a ...
... Buteau persisted , and Françoise , who had already put on an old dress , was forced to follow him . She took a flail , her own . With both hands she made it whirl above her head , bringing it down upon the wheat , which it struck with a ...
Page 171
... Buteau did not give Fouan time to answer . He resumed , with a growing fury : - " Eh ? you have gall ! An old fellow of thirty - three marry a girl of eighteen ! Only fifteen years difference ! Is it not laughable ? " Jean commenced to ...
... Buteau did not give Fouan time to answer . He resumed , with a growing fury : - " Eh ? you have gall ! An old fellow of thirty - three marry a girl of eighteen ! Only fifteen years difference ! Is it not laughable ? " Jean commenced to ...
Page 172
... Buteau saw that the marriage would be decided upon , if the young girl spoke . At that instant La Grande ( the old aunt ) entered the court - yard , followed by the Char- leses , who had returned with Éloide . And he summoned them with ...
... Buteau saw that the marriage would be decided upon , if the young girl spoke . At that instant La Grande ( the old aunt ) entered the court - yard , followed by the Char- leses , who had returned with Éloide . And he summoned them with ...
Page 173
... Buteau had launched forth the first blow , and Jean , yet stooping , would have had his head broken , if he had not leaped backwards . Instantly , with a sudden stiffening of the muscles , he arose , he raised , he brought down the ...
... Buteau had launched forth the first blow , and Jean , yet stooping , would have had his head broken , if he had not leaped backwards . Instantly , with a sudden stiffening of the muscles , he arose , he raised , he brought down the ...
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Page 225 - SUNSET and evening star, And one clear call for me ! And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea...
Page 225 - Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in His hand Who saith, "A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God; see all, nor be afraid!
Page 225 - OH yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood; That nothing walks with aimless feet; That not one life shall be destroy'd, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Page 256 - Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, God's New Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand and the sheep upon the right; And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
Page 225 - Poor vaunt of life indeed, Were man but formed to feed On joy, to solely seek and find and feast: Such feasting ended, then As sure an end to men ; Irks care the crop-full bird ? Frets doubt the maw-crammed beast ? Rejoice we are allied To That which doth provide And not partake, effect and not receive ! A spark disturbs our clod ; Nearer we hold of God Who gives, than of his tribes that take, I must believe.
Page 265 - Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.
Page 271 - Said old Floyd Ireson, for his hard heart, Tarred and feathered and carried in a cart By the women of Marblehead ! Then the wife of the skipper lost at sea Said, " Grod has touched him ! why should we ? " Said an old wife mourning her only son, " Cut the rogue's tether and let him run!
Page 225 - We that had loved him so, followed him, honored him, Lived in his mild and magnificent eye, Learned his great language, caught his clear accents, Made him our pattern to live and to die...
Page 225 - Never glad confident morning again ! Best fight on well, for we taught him — strike gallantly, Menace our heart ere we master his own; Then let him receive the new knowledge and wait us, Pardoned in heaven, the first by the throne ! 'HOW THEY BROUGHT THE GOOD NEWS FROM GHENT TO AIX...
Page 225 - For thence — a paradox Which comforts while it mocks — Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me: A brute I might have been, but would not sink i