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Page 74 of 751929 · PDF PAGE 14
…m. Edward Crowley took his part. If the book was good enough to read on any day, why not on Sunday? To Edward Crowley, every day was the Lord's Day; sabbatarianism was Judiasm. When Alick was eight or thereabouts he was taken by his father to his first school. This was a private school at St. Leonards, kept by an old man named Habershon and his two sons, very strict Evangelicals. Edward Crowley wanted to warn his son against the commonest incident of English school life. He took a very wise way. He read to the boy very impressively the story of…
1929 · PDF PAGE 55
…oposal seems to me to be all Ball's." (An even happier moment was in a debate on a proposal to institute a passion play in England, when Lord Kilmarnock said that it would certainly be a popular attraction to hear Arthur Roberts say "I thirst.") My three years were determined by the influence of a fourth year man named Adamson, whom I think I met at the chess club. He started to talk to {109} me about English literature. For the first time I heard the name Shelley. Wie gesagt, so gethan. Nothing else seemed to me worth while but a thorough read…
1929 · PDF PAGE 393
…. "The Vixen" is about a girl, an heiress in a fox- hunting shire, who tortures and uses for black magic a girl friend. She has a lover, Lord Eyre, whom she despises. She has some intimate relations with a phantom fox, who (to put it briefly) obsesses her. She yields to Eyre, who climbs into her room at night and finds that she is not a woman but a vixen. The effect is to turn him to a hound and he fastens his teeth in her throat. Hound and fox are
1907 · PDF PAGE 138
…set, its Marie Corelli set, its Arthur Wing Pinero set, its Geo e Bernard Shaw set, its Sir William Crooks set, its Royal smart set, its Lord Kelvin set, its individual pleuure seekers, its perverts, its literary, artistic, religious, and philosophical specialists. It is a hydra-headed monster, this London Opinion, but we should not be at all surprised to see an almost unparalleled event, namely, everyone of those hydra-heads moving with a single purpose, and that the denunciation of Mr. Aleister Crowley and all his works. Now this would be a r…
1929 · PDF PAGE 521
… would come to an end, because I chose to turn nasty --- but I was certainly very much annoyed to find that, as in the case of the great Lord Cardinal, when he had finished cursing "nobody seemed one penny the worse". The Secret Chiefs were to all appearance entirely unconcerned at what I had done. Like my own Blind Prophet, I had pulled down the pillars on which I supposed the temple to be supported, but he at least succeeded in crushing himself, and I had not even done that! What happened was in fact extremely curious. Stevenson observes that…
1906 · PDF PAGE 211
… turn their headgear into a cornucopia or Pandora's box. But I must submit that the Hat Question is still swb judice. Here’s a health to Lord Ronald Gower ! 86. Swinburne.9— ‘‘ But this thing is God, To be man with thy might, To grow straight in the strength of thy spirit, and live out thy life as the light.” — Hertha. 104. My big beauty.»°—Pink on Spot ; Player, Green, in Hand. But I have ‘‘ starred” since I went down in ¢hat pocket. 120. My Balti coolies.A—See my ‘‘ The Higher the Fewer.” * 125. ton.22—A school, noted for its breed of cads. ‘…
1929 · PDF PAGE 61
…tical thought which was considered on the same level of certainty as two and two make four. I recall two lines of a poem that I wrote to Lord Rosebery:
1929 · PDF PAGE 302
… of a man is reborn with every such vision. It is not even possible to compare and contrast these beauties; each is entirely individual, lord of its own atmosphere; the points of similarity with other places such as geological formations, the flora, the villages and the people seem to possess infinitesimal importance. On the ninth there was a novelty of another kind. The dignity of Johnny White as interpreter entitled him to ride on horseback; but naturally he had to be content with a somewhat sorry screw, wile my own pony was a fairly decent a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 552
…im through. In a couple of days he was all right again. His experiment, if intended to escape notice, failed. They hauled him before the Lord High-Muck-Amuck, who told him, with the best respects and wishes of Uncle Sam for a prosperous passage to perdition, that after a careful consideration the Navy Department had unanimously decided that they could sweep the seas clear of the White Ensign without troubling themselves to put him to the inconvenience of co-operating. Shaking the pipe-clay of Annapolis from his person, he favoured New York with…
1904 · PDF PAGE 74
…ing and had caught nothing, and he advised me to try the other side of the lake ; and I caught many fish. But I knew not that it was the Lord. In Australia they w ere praying for rain in the churches. The Sydney Bulletin very sensibly pointed out how much more reverent and practical it would be, if, instead of con- stantly worrying the Almighty about trifles, they would pray once and for all for a big range of mountains in Central Australia, which would of course supply rain automatically. No new act of creation would be necessary ; faith, we a…
1904 · PDF PAGE 70
… turn their headgear into a cornucopia or Pandor’s box. But I must submit that the Hat Question is still sub judice. H ere’s a health to Lord Ronald Gower ! 86. Swinburne.19— “ But this thing is God, To be man with thy might, To grow straight in the strength of thy spirit, and live out thy life as the light.”—Hertha. 104. My big beauty.20—Pink on Spot ; Player Green, in Hand. But I have “starred” since I went down in that pocket. 120. My Balti coolies.21—See my “The higher the Fewer.”* 125. Eton.22—A school, noted for its breed of cads. The bat…
1929 · PDF PAGE 565
…turning over the Review, lock, stock and barrel, gratis, on his attention being called to the fact that Harrison possessed a letter from Lord Roberts denouncing Mond in such terms that its publication would have probably been followed by the wrecking of Mond's house in Lowndes Square, and, as likely as not, a lynching. Sir George Lewis called at the office (Harrison boasted to me that Lewis never went outside his lair for anyone less than a royal duke) and concluded the deal on the terms stated above on Harrison's giving his word not to make pu…
1906 · PDF PAGE 199
…avage practical joke. Apart from this there can hardly be much doubt, when critical exegesis has done its damnedest on the Logia of our’ Lord, that Buddha did at some time commit himself to some statement. ‘*(Something called) Con- sciousness exists” is, said Huxley, the irre- ducible minimum of the pseudo-syllogism, false even for an enthymeme, ‘Cogito, ergo sum!” This proposition he bolsters up by Stating that whoso should pretend to doubt it, would thereby but confirm it. Yet might it not be said ‘‘ (Something called) Consciousness appears t…
1904 · PDF PAGE 58
…savage practical joke. Apart from this there can hardly be much doubt, when critical exegesis has done its damnedest on the Logia of our Lord, that Buddha did at some time commit himself to some statement. “(Something called) C on- sciousness exists” is, said H uxley, the irreducible minimum of the pseudo-syllogism, false even for an enthymeme, “Cogito, ergo sum !” This proposition he bolsters up by stating that whoso should pretend to doubt it, would thereby but confirm it. Yet might it not be said “(Something called) Consciousness appears to …
1906 · PDF PAGE 202
… and schoolmaster) actually made an identical confession to a boy of ten years old? and to bring up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, was not a little perplexed by the sudden disappearance of his wife. At first he supposed that she had been translated, but, finding that she had not left the traditional mantle behind her, he abandoned this suppo- sition in favour of quite a different, and indeed a more plausible one. He now believed her to be the scarlet woman in the Apocalypse, with variations. On arrival in Egypt he hired an old nativ…
1904 · PDF PAGE 61
…nd sc hoolmaster) actually made an identical confession to a boy of ten years old ? and to bring up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, was not a little perplexed by the sudden disappearance of his wife. At first he supposed that she had been translated, but, finding that she had not left behind the traditional mantle behind her, he abandoned this suppo- sition in favour of quite a different, and indeed a more plausible one. He now believed her to be the scarlet w oman of the A pocalypse, with variations. On arrival in Egypt he hired an …
1909 · PDF PAGE 409
…uring that prevade the poetic works of that nineteeath-century artist, A valuable addition to the poetic Titetature on the Mother of our Lord.” ‘The “ Guardian” says : “The devotional fervour of ‘Amphora’ will make them acceptable to those who address their worship to the Blessed Mother of the Christ. The meaning of the title of the book is aot very obvious. It cannot surely bave anything to do with the lines in Horace ‘ Amphora coepit,’ &c.”
1909 · PDF PAGE 409
…uring that prevade the poetic works of that nineteeath-century artist, A valuable addition to the poetic Titetature on the Mother of our Lord.” ‘The “ Guardian” says : “The devotional fervour of ‘Amphora’ will make them acceptable to those who address their worship to the Blessed Mother of the Christ. The meaning of the title of the book is aot very obvious. It cannot surely bave anything to do with the lines in Horace ‘ Amphora coepit,’ &c.”
1913 · PDF PAGE 593
…uring that pervade the poetic works of that nineteenth-century artist. A valuable addition to the poetic literature on the Mother of our Lord,” ‘it The Guardian” says—‘ The devotional fervour of‘Amphora’ will make them acceptable to those who address their worship to the Blessed Mother of the Christ. The meaning of the title of the book is not very obvious, It cannot surely have anything to do with the lines in Horace, ‘ Amphora coepit,”” etc. ‘The ‘Catholic Times" says—“ As far as we can gather from his other works, the author is not a Catholi…
1913 · PDF PAGE 593
…uring that pervade the poetic works of that nineteenth-century artist. A valuable addition to the poetic literature on the Mother of our Lord,” ‘it The Guardian” says—‘ The devotional fervour of‘Amphora’ will make them acceptable to those who address their worship to the Blessed Mother of the Christ. The meaning of the title of the book is not very obvious, It cannot surely have anything to do with the lines in Horace, ‘ Amphora coepit,”” etc. ‘The ‘Catholic Times" says—“ As far as we can gather from his other works, the author is not a Catholi…