Masterman and Son

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Fleming H. Revell Company, 1909 - 365 страници
 

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Страница 356 - Abide with me ; fast falls the even-tide ; The darkness deepens ; Lord, with me abide ; When other helpers fail, and comforts flee, Help of the helpless, O abide with me. Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day ; Earth's joys grow dim, its glories pass away : Change and decay in all around I see ; 0 Thou Who changest not, abide with me.
Страница 280 - ... or as when a bird hath flown through the air, there is no token of her way to be found, but the light air being beaten with the stroke of her wings, and parted with the violent noise and motion of them, is passed through, and therein afterwards no sign where she went is to be found; or like as when an arrow is shot at a mark, it parteth the air, which immediately cometh together again, so that a man cannot know where it went through...
Страница 280 - All those things are passed away like a shadow, and as a host that hasted by; and as a ship that passeth over the waves of the water, which, when it is gone by,, the trace thereof cannot be found, neither the pathway of the keel in the waves; or, as when a bird hath flown through the air, there is no token of her way to be found...
Страница 280 - What hath pride profited us? or what good hath riches with our vaunting brought us? All those things are passed away like a shadow...
Страница 349 - Weep for the dead, for he hath lost the light: and weep for the fool, for he wanteth understanding: make little weeping for the dead, for he is at rest: but the life of the fool is worse than death.
Страница 349 - He that buildeth his house with other men's money is like one that gathereth himself stones for the tomb of his burial.
Страница 228 - ... as he returned to his seat Crass called upon the others to listen while he read it aloud. He said it was one of the best things he had ever seen: it had been given to him by a bloke at the 'Cricketers' the other night. Crass was not a very good reader, but he was able to read this all right because he had read it so often that he almost knew it by heart. It was entitled 'The Art of Flatulence', and it consisted of a number of rules and definitions. Shouts of laughter greeted the reading of each...
Страница 360 - Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished ; neither have they any more a portion in anything that is done under the sun.
Страница 36 - ... drove out; and I leaned my aching head on the arm of the sofa, for some feeling, akin to despair, had laid hold of me. But Lionel suddenly came back; I heard his step outside. In a moment he was in the room and had closed the door. I started up, and blushed like a guilty thing. " Jane, I have a word to say to you, and I may as well say it now, for it is hard to tell when we shall meet again.
Страница 163 - and he may be able to put you in the way of using your pen.

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