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Page 71 of 1031929 · PDF PAGE 474
…our correspondence on the subject. I claim further credit for perceiving the limitations of Viereck. Brilliant though he was, he was not old enough, solid enough or unselfish and high-minded enough to be trustworthy enough to handle a propaganda involving the destiny of a people. I looked for what the Americans call the "man higher up". I did not look in the direction of honest, well-meaning, sentimental von Bernstorff with all his capacity for routine, his noble credulity, his quite genuine desire to arrange everything amicably, and his hackne…
1904 · PDF PAGE 73
…capital nigger meat broiling. For soup she gave us some stallion jelly from her chocked-up cuckoos nest ; for fish the scrapings of the old negresses diddly-pouts made an excellent kedgeree : for entrée she did up a lot of balls, in shit sauce : also there was plenty of tripe, and some delicious sweetbread : for vegeta- bles the stomachs of our victims were as good as a Covent Garden, for they lived exclusively upon the produce of the Earth : the releve was a fine haunch. For sweets she passed round her own sweet straw- berry-patch : and the…
1929 · PDF PAGE 72
…ing his words with the minutest care. "I am going to do everything possible to damp your enthusiasm. I would rather have you start from cold and spark up well as you go, than have you go off with a spurt, and find yourself without petrol in the middle of the big rise. "I want you to take up this research because of your real love of knowledge, not because of your passion for Brother Cyril. And I tell you honestly that I am mortally afraid for you, because you live in extremes. It is good for a swift push to have that sudden energy of yours; but…
1947 · PDF PAGE 8
…e in my bosom. For one kiss wilt thou then be willing to give all ; but whoso gives one particle of dust shall lose all in that hour. Behold ! the rituals of the old time are black. Let the evil ones be cast away ; let the good ones be purged by the prophet ! Then shall this knowledge go aright. I am the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the core of every star. I am Life, and the giver of Life, yet therefore is the knowledge of me the knowledge of death. I am the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the wheel, and the cube i…
1954 · PDF PAGE 381
… equivalent in freshly-minted money-that's what those queues are-and "every one is happy again." "But," I objected, "I see you have some old coins." He laughed. "Those one-eyed mules at the Banks! All foolishness! Days ago we all agreed to take any money without question-and as long as we all do that, why, nobody's hurt!" I am not pretending that there is anything new about any of this; the whole theory of credit implies the probability of some such happenings. When I first landed in the U.S.A. (1900) I noticed instantly that practically everyb…
1929 · PDF PAGE 481
…te no more with mine truly, G. Cecil Jones! But in this jest of Mr Jones' pompous imbecility, there was something sad. He had induced my old friend Eckenstein to sign that silly letter. Eckenstein is a great man and my dearest friend. But he is an old man and (I fear me) a dying one.1 His judgment cannot be what it used to be; but if his memory has not failed him, I will remind him of certain events in our long friendship. I met him at Wastdale Head during Easter week of 1898. We soon became climbing companions, a relation which endured so long…
1954 · PDF PAGE 238
…ected probably, through the Lithuanian, with the Welsh Bwg a spectre or hobgoblin. Bugge, too. Not very inspiring, is it, to replace the Old Hundredth by "Hush! Hush! Hush! here comes the Bogey Man." Or is it. Enough of this fooling! Out, trusty rapier, and home to the stone heart of the audacious woman that wrote "God within us." I know you thought you knew more or less what you meant when you wrote it; but surely that was a mere slip. An instant's thought would have warned you that the word wouldn't stand even the most superficial analysis. Y…
1910 · PDF PAGE 70
…is consciousness, and the Unknowable may become the Known, or at least the Unknown, in the sense of the un- discovered. Thus we find the old Vedantist presupposing an Atman and a ciuBorov of it, so that he might better transmute * Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, 2. 4. 12. + The illusion of thinking ourselves similar to the Unity and yet separated from It. 58
1910 · PDF PAGE 70
…is consciousness, and the Unknowable may become the Known, or at least the Unknown, in the sense of the un- discovered. Thus we find the old Vedantist presupposing an Atman and a ciuBorov of it, so that he might better transmute * Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, 2. 4. 12. + The illusion of thinking ourselves similar to the Unity and yet separated from It. 58
1922 · PDF PAGE 31
AA Knight Out 17 except old Owen. As a matter of fact, all I had had was a glass of white wine. Lou had touched nothing at all. She prattled on like the innocent child she was, out of the sheer mirth of her heart. In an ordinary way, I suppose, I should have drunk a lot more than I did. And I didn’t eat much either. Of course, I know now what it was—that much-derided phenomenon, love at first sight. Suddenly we were interrupted. A tall man was shaking hands across the table with Owen. Instead of using any of the ordinary greetings, he said in a…
1954 · PDF PAGE 515
… was there . At Darjeeling, a few hundred feet higher, devil a one! They have no one to think : Now how can we flourish up higher? Those old forlorn-hope Miss-Sahibs-how wide are their nostrils! Then - how? Consider for a moment our own Empire. How did that spread all over the planet? It was the imaginative logic, the audacity, the adroit adaptability , of the Adventurer that blasted the road. The sunny Socialist smiles his superior smile, and condescends to instruct us. That was an unfortunate, though perhaps sometimes necessary , stage in the…
1906 · PDF PAGE 13
<°TIS PITY——” 7 IN A LESBIAN MEADOW. I. UNDER the summer leaves In the half-light Love his old story weaves Far out of sight. Here we are lone, at last. Heaven is overcast Yet with no night. Ere her immortal wings Gather the thread of things Into her might, Up will the moon arise Through the black-azure skies : Birds shall sing litanies Still of delight. II. Let my lips wander where Tender moss grows, Where through their dusky air Beams a red rose. Where the bee honey sips Let my desirous lips, Kissing, unclose Delicate lips and chaste, Sweetne…
1907 · PDF PAGE 50
44 WHY JESUS WEPT SCENE XII. TWO YEARS LATER. Night: The Strand, opposite the fotel Cectl. “l chemist’s shop behind. A grey, old, wieened man staggers tnto the shop. CHEMIST. This prescription has been made up before, Sir. THE MAN. Yes, I want it renewed, quickly, quickly. CHEMIST. I am afraid, sir, it is marked ‘once only.” THE MAN. You won't? O if you knew what I suffer! I will pay you double. CHEMIST. I’m afraid not, sir. You may try else- where. Trk MAN, O God! O God! [Goes out. To him enter on the pavement a bedrageled female. THE WoMAN. C…
1909 · PDF PAGE 346
… in Orkney or the Hebrides they are most easily garnered, for the language is our own language. One of the most beautiful of them, when told in full, is the tale of the Mermaid Wife. On a moonlight night, as an Orkney fisherman strolled by the sea-shore, he saw, to his amazement, some _ beautiful maidens dancing a saraband on the smooth beach. In a heap by their side lay a bundle of skins, which, on his approach, the maidens seized and then plunged with them into the surf, where they took the form of seals. But the fisherman had managed to snat…
1909 · PDF PAGE 346
… in Orkney or the Hebrides they are most easily garnered, for the language is our own language. One of the most beautiful of them, when told in full, is the tale of the Mermaid Wife. On a moonlight night, as an Orkney fisherman strolled by the sea-shore, he saw, to his amazement, some _ beautiful maidens dancing a saraband on the smooth beach. In a heap by their side lay a bundle of skins, which, on his approach, the maidens seized and then plunged with them into the surf, where they took the form of seals. But the fisherman had managed to snat…
1910 · PDF PAGE 145
…munistic brotherhood of Christ, Gotama, the Enlightened One, the Buddha, now similarly went back to Vedic times and to the wisdom of the old Rishis. But, fearing the evil asso- ciations clinging to a name, he, anathematizing the Atman, in * “The Questions of King Milinda,” iv, 1, 48. See also the story of the Holy Quail in Rhys Davids’ “ Buddhist Birth Stories,” p. 302. These Iddhis are also called Abhijnyds. There are six of them: (1) clairvoyance; (2) clairaudience; (3) powers of transformation; (4) powers of remembering past lives; (5) power…
1910 · PDF PAGE 145
…munistic brotherhood of Christ, Gotama, the Enlightened One, the Buddha, now similarly went back to Vedic times and to the wisdom of the old Rishis. But, fearing the evil asso- ciations clinging to a name, he, anathematizing the Atman, in * “The Questions of King Milinda,” iv, 1, 48. See also the story of the Holy Quail in Rhys Davids’ “ Buddhist Birth Stories,” p. 302. These Iddhis are also called Abhijnyds. There are six of them: (1) clairvoyance; (2) clairaudience; (3) powers of transformation; (4) powers of remembering past lives; (5) power…
1922 · PDF PAGE 113
…of a scoundrel. Every one said so. Why did he want to butt in? Nobody asked him to meddle. I said something of the sort to Lou, and she told him off very wittily. “You've saidit, Cockie,” she cried. ‘‘ He’s a meddler, and his nature is to be rotten before he’s ripe.” I remembered something of.the sort in Shakespeare. That was the best of Lou; she was brilliantly clever, but she never forced it down one’s throat. At the same time, as I said, the man stuck in my gizzard. It annoyed me so much that we took a lot more cocaine to get the taste out o…
1922 · PDF PAGE 287
First Aid 273 its defenders does not come from any diminution in the fighting power of the individual soldiers ; its military value is not sensibly diminished by the loss of the few men at the point of attack. It has become worth- less because their regular arrangement has been thrown into disorder. “At the Battle of Waterloo,” said King Lamus, turning from the wall and going back to his coffee, ‘“‘ Napoleon sent forward the Old Guard. A few minutes later he cried, ‘They are mixed,’ and drove in despair from the field. He did not have to wait t…
1922 · PDF PAGE 359
…s about the beauty of the scenery. I couldn’t seem to interest him in the helicopter at all. Was I really talking such rubbish? “I’m too old to be snubbed, Sir Peter,” (Oh, yes, I was Sir Peter now! Of course I was.) he interjected, shaking me gently by the shoulder. ‘I had paused to clear up a point in my mind about one of the gauges. “‘ And I must remind you that you are a gentleman ; and that when you came to this Abbey the first thing you did was to sign a pledge-form.”