Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and WomenSmith, Elder, 1858 - 323 страници Phantastes : A Faerie Romance for Men and Women by George MacDonald, first published in 1858, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it. |
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Страница 229 - Alas ! how easily things go wrong ; A sigh too much or a kiss too long, And there follows a mist and a weeping rain, And life is never the same again.
Страница 99 - O Lady ! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does nature live : Ours is her wedding-garment, ours her shroud ! And would we aught behold, of higher worth, Than that inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd, Ah ! from the soul itself must issue forth, A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth...
Страница 123 - The appearance instantaneously disclosed, Was of a mighty city— boldly say A wilderness of building, sinking far And self-withdrawn into a wondrous depth, Far sinking into splendour — without end! Fabric it seemed of diamond and of gold, With alabaster domes, and silver spires, And blazing terrace upon terrace, high Uplifted...
Страница 11 - Tis but a disguised humanity. To avoid thy fellow, vain thy plan ; All that interests a man, is man.
Страница 203 - Frei sein in des Todes Reichen, Brechet nicht von seines Gartens Frucht ! An dem Scheine mag der Blick sich weiden; Des Genusses wandelbare Freuden Rächet schleunig der Begierde Flucht. Selbst der Styx, der neunfach sie umwindet, Wehrt die Rückkehr Ceres' Tochter nicht; Nach dem Apfel greift sie, und es bindet Ewig sie des Orkus Pflicht.
Страница 251 - THE noble hart that harbours vertuous thought, And is with childe of glorious great intent, Can never rest, untill it forth have brought Th...
Страница 6 - But you are not my grandmother," said I. " How do you know that? " she retorted. " I dare say you know something of your great-grandfathers a good deal further back than that ; but you know very little about your great-grandmothers on either side.
Страница 314 - Now that I lay in her bosom, the whole earth, and each of her many births, was as a body to me, at my will. I seemed to feel the great heart of the mother beating into mine, and feeding me with her own life, her own essential being and nature.
Страница 323 - What we call evil, is the only and best shape, which, for the person and his condition at the time, could be assumed by the best good.