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Page 69 of 2251929 · PDF PAGE 8
…y; a rival ousted him, and his sentence was car- ried out with as much severity as if he had been a com- mon criminal. It was to such a man (naturally) that I looked to devise a plan for our escape. But rack my brains as I wouldmy grandmother was a Warwickshire Higginbotham I could devise no means of getting into touch with him. He must, however, have divined my wishes; for, one day after he had been about a month upon the is- land (I had been there seven months myself) he stum- bled and fell as if struck by the sun at a moment when I was cl…
1909 · PDF PAGE 61
…n the Cubical Stone, whose sides show the Green Lion and White Eagle. Line 16.—He is crowned, sceptred, and blessing, all in a threefold manner, Four living creatures adore him, the whole suggesting a pentagram by its shape. Line 17.—He is inspired by Apollo to prophesy concerning things sacred and profane: repre- sented by a boy with his bow and two women, a priestess and an harlot. Line 18.—He drives furiously a chariot drawn by two sphinxes. As Levi drew it. Line 20.—Before him goeth upright the Royal Uraus t. LinE 21.—[ fo) , 3 » and 6, or …
1904 · PDF PAGE 79
THE VILLAGE CHAMPIONS (FOUNDED ON FACT) ‘The way to Dorking, mister? Ay! I wean’t, a-fearin’ to deceive ; I bean’t a man as can rely, To speak on, as you might perceive. You go an’ ax that chap you see A-sitting by the villidge tree.” “« And who is he ?” the stranger said. “He seems more aged than you, my friend!” “Why, bless you, so ’e be,” his head He sadly scratched from end to end, “ But sich a hintellect, I'll lay You don’t see, mister, hevery day ! “Why, Billy Stoke ’e were the cove A matter o’ ten year agone What beat Jim Buskett out o’ …
1906 · PDF PAGE 114
… and clever! This sort of thing goes on for ever,” IX, On earth I dreaded impotence, Age, death. You see, I had no sense. Best be an old man ere you die; They wish insensibility, So are their pains the duller. Hell Is managed infinitely well 106
1944 · PDF PAGE 5
…Life. All these Wheels be one; yet of all these the Wheel of the TARO alone avails thee consciously. Meditate long and broad and deep, O man, upon this Wheel, revolving it in thy mind! Be this thy task, to see how each card springs necessarily from each other card, even in due order from The Fool unto The Ten of Coins. Then, when thou know’st the Wheel of Destiny complete, may’st thou perceive THAT Will which moved it first. [There is no first or last.] And lo! thou art past through the Abyss. The Book of Lies KEΦ.OH.
1929 · PDF PAGE 377
…d employed a Chinese contractor. He pointed out that the work would be much easier by using bricks of a different size to that which the man was making. He obeyed, but a day later went back to the old kind. The engineer protested, but the man explained that his bricks were of a "heaven-sent" size1. So I found that the format of The Equinox shocked the bookseller; worse still, it was not a book, being issued periodically, nor a magazine, being to big and well produced! I said, "What does it matter? All I ask you to do is to show it and sell it."…
1910 · PDF PAGE 146
… according to Nagasena is cessation,* a passing away in which nothing remains, an end.+ Soon however, under Mah4yana-Buddhism, was the Atman to be revived in all its old glory under the name of Amitabha, or that Source of all Light, which so enlightens a man who is aspiring to the Bodhi that he becomes a Buddha. “ Amitabha,” so Paul Carus informs us, “is the final norm of wisdom and of morality+ (séc), the standard of truth and of righteousness, the ultimate vazsou a’étre of the Cosmic Order.” This of course is “bosh.” AmitAbha, as the Atman, i…
1910 · PDF PAGE 146
… according to Nagasena is cessation,* a passing away in which nothing remains, an end.+ Soon however, under Mah4yana-Buddhism, was the Atman to be revived in all its old glory under the name of Amitabha, or that Source of all Light, which so enlightens a man who is aspiring to the Bodhi that he becomes a Buddha. “ Amitabha,” so Paul Carus informs us, “is the final norm of wisdom and of morality+ (séc), the standard of truth and of righteousness, the ultimate vazsou a’étre of the Cosmic Order.” This of course is “bosh.” AmitAbha, as the Atman, i…
1922 · PDF PAGE 210
… Dienen! Dienen!” Who would kill a horse because he was afraid to ride him? It is better to mount, and dare the brute to bolt. After the man is thrown, we pick him up and nurse him, but we don’t adore him. Most men are like that. But what every woman is looking for is the man with the most spirited horse and the most complete mastery of him. That’s most symbolic in The Garden of Allah, where the monk who cannot ride takes a stallion out into the desert, determined to fight the thing out to a finish. Basil was not moved by the savage spite of Pe…
1929 · PDF PAGE 3
…heat. Really, in the summer of 1911, it was hardly as bad. Do you know, I remember once at Boulogne He broke off sharply, for the brown man, sticking the ferrule of his stick repeatedly in the sand, and knotting his brows came suddenly to a deci- sion. What do you know of heat? he cried, fixing Bevan with the intensity of a demon. What do you know of desolation? Taken aback, as well he might be, Bevan was at a loss to reply. Stay, cried the other. What if I told you my story? There is no one here but ourselves. He glared menacingly at …
1905 · PDF PAGE 55
…corning Even to fling back the foam shattered before and behind ; Save for one window its height rears up unbroken and blind. tere may a man gaze out to the night by the stars of it stricken, Out to the blind black air that the lightning divides, and is dumb; Ifere, and look back in the tower’ where pallid shades murmur and quicken : Low laughs leap in the silence, sink to a sigh ere there come, Far from the feet of the storm, a pulse like the beat of a drum. Throbs the wild sound through the storm, and the wings of it waken and quiver, Only th…
1907 · PDF PAGE 99
92 THE STAR IN THE WEST long as man wages war against woman for sins that he condones in himself , so long will vice reign supreme , so long will women prove themselves deceivers , harpyiæ and sirenes, let alone Eumenides . Most will recognize the following as the opening scene in Terence's “ The Mother- in -Law ,” which play sums up the matter tersely enough : Philotis . l ' faith , Syra, you can find but very few lovers who prove constant to their mistresses . For instance , how often did this Pamphilus swear to Bacchis-how solemnly , so that…
1909 · PDF PAGE 373
THE MAN-COVER the South Coast to the private yacht which, no doubt, was awaiting.us. This is my way of explaining it, but of course it is a mere suggestion. It might have been an airship that took me away, independent of terrestrial laws, regardless of Customs Duties—who knows, perhaps hovering over London and Scotland Yard and my dear old house in which I was so happy—but . . . Mec scive fas est omnia. The only thing I am certain of is that I was either planed to fit the coffin, or the coffin to fit me; and then I;woke up. Iwas on board a sea-…
1909 · PDF PAGE 373
THE MAN-COVER the South Coast to the private yacht which, no doubt, was awaiting.us. This is my way of explaining it, but of course it is a mere suggestion. It might have been an airship that took me away, independent of terrestrial laws, regardless of Customs Duties—who knows, perhaps hovering over London and Scotland Yard and my dear old house in which I was so happy—but . . . Mec scive fas est omnia. The only thing I am certain of is that I was either planed to fit the coffin, or the coffin to fit me; and then I;woke up. Iwas on board a sea-…
1922 · PDF PAGE 215
… :— they were allin my power from the moment my fingers closed over the bottle. I put out my hand; but the heroin had disappeared in the manner of a conjuring trick. McCall leant his weight on the back of my chair afd tilted it slightly. His ugly shrewd false face was within a foot of mine. “Will you really let me have that?” I faltered. “ Sir Peter’s very rich. We can afford to pay the price, whatever it is.’ He gave a funny little laugh. JI shrank from the long wolf-like mouth hanging over me greedily open, with its bared two white rows of sh…
1901 · PDF PAGE 30
18 THE SOUL OF OSIRIS. JEZEBEL. PART I. LION’S mane, a leopard’s skin Across my dusty shoulders thrown ; A swart fierce face, with eyes where sin Lurks like a serpent by a stone. A man driven forth by lust to seek Rest from himself on Carmel’s peak. A prophet with wild hair behind, Streaming in fiery clusters ! Yea, Tangled with vehemence of the wind, And knotted with the tears that slay ; And all my face parched up and dried, And all my body crucified. Ofttimes the Spirit of the Lord Descends and floods me with his breath ; My words are fashio…
1904 · PDF PAGE 33
BALLADE OF THE MUTABILITY OF HUMAN AFFAIRS WILD briar’s a blossom that fades ; The lily as easily dies ; And the love of terrestrial maids Is tender, too tender to prize. In a minute it droops and it dies, And happiness spills at the brink ; Love opens the window and flies :— But Smith’s is a permanent ink. Prosperity favoureth trades. An hour, and then troubles arise. The workers drop axes and spades, And Brandenburg labour supplies The goods. It is very unwise Your money in labour to sink. It will vanish, the blue in the skies :— But Smith’s …
1913 · PDF PAGE 86
NORMAN DAVEY. THE SARGASSO SEA . AGUE , unascertained , untravelled , lies an ocean sea -weed ravelled No charts hold - or ever have held — where that deadly sea may lie; But each day the sad wind sighs on ships , with men and merchandise on , Fading from the far horizon , drifting , drifting down to die . Ever drifting , fleeter , faster – drifting to untold disaster Bearing man and mate and master to irrevocable doom ; Far beyond the farthest traces left of men , to haunted places Helpless in the cold embraces of the drift - weed 's trailing …
1929 · PDF PAGE 300
…ere were hundreds and hundreds and hundreds, and I went on sighing that I should like to see one. During my whole journey, I never saw a man whom I could call definitely the worse for opium. My wife's chair coolies were cases in point. They had smoked from twelve years old or thereabouts; and when I say smoked, I mean smoked. Every night on reaching the inn, temple or camp, as the case {489} may be, they cooked their rice and started to smoke directly they had eaten it, continuing till they went to sleep. In the morning again they smoked before…
1905 · PDF PAGE 152
…ible word, Higher than all words spoken ; for He said : ‘‘ Death is made change, and only change is dead.” For the most holy spirit of a man Burns through the limit of the wheels that ran Through all the unrelenting skies When Icarus died, And leaps, the flight of wise omnipotent eyes, When Deedalus espied An holy habitation for the shrine Solitary, ’mid the night of broken brine VOL, I. | Dead. That foamed like starlight round the desolate shore.! So to the mine of that crystalline ore Golden, the electric spark of man is drawn Deep in the bos…