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Page 79 of 2251904 · PDF PAGE 38
…ine is coiled and curled With the swift serpent’s beauty, and the owl Sits in huge state upon the midmost bench. Thus, therefore, by the manifest design, Joining the wisdom to the power and will, We build the Argo. ARGUS. What a heavy club We carry! And how well becomes our figure The lion’s skin! HERACLES. Be still, thou art an ass! ARGUS. The fabled ass, O Zeus-descended one? HERACLES. What ass? ARGUS. The one that wore the lion’s skin! THESEUS. This fellow were beneath a man’s contempt. How should a God-born heed him?
1910 · PDF PAGE 472
…in the saint. For now! what hath he left? He feeds On limpets and wild roots. What odds? There is no need a mortal needs Who hath loosed man’s hope to grasp at God's! How his head swims! At night what stirs Above the faint wash of the tide, And rare sea-birds whose winging whirrs About the cliffs? Now good betide!
1910 · PDF PAGE 472
…in the saint. For now! what hath he left? He feeds On limpets and wild roots. What odds? There is no need a mortal needs Who hath loosed man’s hope to grasp at God's! How his head swims! At night what stirs Above the faint wash of the tide, And rare sea-birds whose winging whirrs About the cliffs? Now good betide!
1909 · PDF PAGE 304
…cious that at any moment I might have to recast the whole of these laws, I should be but a bat-headed dogmatist instead of the hawk-eyed man of science who is ever ready to re-see and to reform.” * Why is it more probable that all men must die; that lead cannot of itself remain suspended in the air ; that fire consumes wood and is extinguished by water; unless it be that these events are found agreeable to the laws of nature, and there is required a violation of these laws, or in other words a miracle, to prevent them ?”—Hume, iv., p. 133. “It …
1909 · PDF PAGE 304
…cious that at any moment I might have to recast the whole of these laws, I should be but a bat-headed dogmatist instead of the hawk-eyed man of science who is ever ready to re-see and to reform.” * Why is it more probable that all men must die; that lead cannot of itself remain suspended in the air ; that fire consumes wood and is extinguished by water; unless it be that these events are found agreeable to the laws of nature, and there is required a violation of these laws, or in other words a miracle, to prevent them ?”—Hume, iv., p. 133. “It …
1996 · PDF PAGE 161
…chinery.1 (I admit the practical dif ficulties of defining the limits of legitimate devices. The issue is this: how are we to develop human skill? The printing press is admirable in the hands of an Aldus, a Charles T. Jacobi, or even a William Morris.1 2 But the cheap mechanical printing of luetic rub bish on rotten pulp with worn types in inferior ink has destroyed the eyesight, putrefied the mind, and deluded the passions, of the multitude.) For machines are dodges for avoiding Hard Work; and Hard Work is the salvation of the race. In The T…
1904 · PDF PAGE 124
…record those results in an intelligible, orderly form. Others deliberately set their face agains t such an attem pt. I am not of them; humanity has grown up; if the knowledge be dangerous in unexpected way s, what of bacteriology? I have obtained one result; a result striking at the very condition of consciousness; which I may formulate as follows: “If a single state of consciousness persist unchanged for a period exceeding a very few seconds, its duality is annihilated; its nature is violently overthrown; this phenomenon is accompanied by an i…
1907 · PDF PAGE 44
…y yourself a pretty hat ! Forget my pretty speeches | [Pings his purse down. CARRUTHERS. O Lord Christ ! In one short day—he was a gentleman ! Sir Percival! Would God I were dead too ! If he had lived—thank God he died! Sir Percy, Lend me your pistol ; here’s a heart to hit ! [Sir Percy descends, after taking fare- well of ANGELA, and appears agatn on horseback among his men. SiR PERCY. Arnold and Ritson, tend the wounded man ! To breakfast, gentlemen ! [Looks up. Farewell ! ANGELA (waves her handkerchief and throws a kiss), Farewell ! | Axveun…
1930 · PDF PAGE 43
ideasj they hâve not, and never can hâve, any real meaning. If a man in delirium tremens fell into the Hudson River, he might remember the proverb and clutch at an imaginary straw. Words such as “truth” are like that straw. Confusion of thought is concealed, and its impotence denied, by the invention. This paragraph opened with, “We know”: yet, questioned, awe” make haste to deny the possibility of possessing, or even of defining, knowledge. What could be more certain to a parabola-philosopher than that he could be approached in two ways, and t…
1996 · PDF PAGE 175
…s, and she hath tamed them thus. Her silence was the token of her triumph. But now the Word of Me the Beast is this; not only art thou Woman, sworn to a purpose not thine own; thou art thyself a star, and in thyself a purpose to thyself. Not only mother of men art thou, or whore to men; serf to their need of Life and Love, not sharing in their Light and Liberty; nay, thou art Mother and Whore for thine own pleasure; the Word I say to Man I say to thee no less: “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law”! Ay, priest, ay, lawyer, ay, censor…
1899 · PDF PAGE 37
…lp! Be gone! Exit Messenger. CHORUS. I fear me our necessity is sure. But they come hither. Shall we rather flee ? ELEAZAR. I stand here manly, and will die a man. CHORUS. For cowardice not pleases God, nor fear. Shall we not take up weapons? Or shall He Rather defend us with His Holy Arm, We not presuming in our arrogance To come with cunning, and defend ourselves ? ELEAZAR. Nay, but God smites with sharpness of our swords, CHORUS. The sword is made sharp in our hands, but the point He shall guide; We grasp the tough ash of the spear, but His …
1899 · PDF PAGE 69
… bring her father home. JARED [aszae]. Horrible! I must speak and silence this Monstrous impossible villainy of fate. CHORUS. O wise old man, thou speakest cleverly. AHINOAM. So do, and praise be given you from God. ELEAZAR. God, Who this day has sliumbered not, nor slept, He only keepeth Israel: He is God! CHORUS. When God uplifted hands to smite, And earth from chaos was unrolled, And skies and seas from blackest night Unfurled, twin sapphires set with gold, And tumult of the boisterous deep Roared from its slow ungainly sleep, And flocks of …
1904 · PDF PAGE 46
… of our Queen Athena! mystery and might; These worked invisibly to bring The end of triumph to our King. Great Jason, wronged by hate of man, Shall pass the portals of the deep; Shall seek the waters wide and wan; Shall pass within the land of sleep; And there the guardians of the soil Shall rest at last from pain and toil. O ruler of the empyréan, Behold his fervour conquering The fury of the breed Cadmean, The dragons of the Theban king; And arméd men shall spring from earth In vain to ward the gloomy girth! But thou, Athena, didst devise Som…
1904 · PDF PAGE 108
…condition! All is safe. MEDEA. Haste then! Good luck attend you! When the hunt Returns, how joyful—— FIRST DANAID. Striding vigorous The man renewed grasps Jason in embrace Worthy of Heracles. ALCESTIS. Thanks, thanks, dear queen ! We go, we go! MEDEA. The Goddess be your speed! Thus will the danger pass! That vicious fool Shall cease his plots against my best beloved. No taint of fell complicity shall touch My honour in this matter. I will sleep Through the delicious hours of breezy noon, Lulled by sweet voices of my singing maids ; Secure at …
1905 · PDF PAGE 51
… And laugh with careless wickedness that strews the broad road of the Pit With vine and myrtle and thy flower, my harlot-maiden, who for man Now first forsakest thy leman, thy Eve, my Lilith, in this bower
1905 · PDF PAGE 134
Stories to tremble at and flee— And others worth a tear. I thought of how a maiden man Might hear a deadly song And clasp a siren in his span, And feel her kiss grow strong To drag him with caresses wan Into the House of Wrong. Another: how the women grew Like vines of tender grape, And how they laughed as lovers do, And took a lover’s shape, And how men sought them, free to woo— To leave them, no escape! Another: how a golden cup A golden girl would pour, And whoso laughed and drank it up Grew wise and warrior : But whoso stayed to smile and s…
1913 · PDF PAGE 131
… border, At sunset walked, and, in the breeze With his disciples, took his ease An Adept of the Holy Order. “My children,” said the holy man, “Once more I’m willing to unmask me. This is my birthday ; and my plan Is to bestow on you (I can) Whatever favour you may ask me.” Nor curiosity nor greed Brought these disciples to disaster ; For, being very wise indeed, The adolescents all agreed To ask His Secret of the Master. gi
1913 · PDF PAGE 131
… border, At sunset walked, and, in the breeze With his disciples, took his ease An Adept of the Holy Order. “My children,” said the holy man, “Once more I’m willing to unmask me. This is my birthday ; and my plan Is to bestow on you (I can) Whatever favour you may ask me.” Nor curiosity nor greed Brought these disciples to disaster ; For, being very wise indeed, The adolescents all agreed To ask His Secret of the Master. gi
1910 · PDF PAGE 353
…ou have committed a horrible black magical act, you have slept with”... LEILA [a creamy girl]: “Good heavens, Sir, I faint; call a policeman.” THEODORUS: “ Become acquainted with the Queen of the nymphs.” . . . SISTER HELEN [nursing expert]: “A douche, smelling salts, eau de Cologne, quinine. . ,!” THEODORUS: “From the abode of . . . Brotherhood you are expelled [sods], to the British Museum you must go [svuffes], and read [pause] ‘The Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians’!” THE DEVIL: “Tut, tut, . . . Dear Sisters, the train has stopped, we are …
1910 · PDF PAGE 353
…ou have committed a horrible black magical act, you have slept with”... LEILA [a creamy girl]: “Good heavens, Sir, I faint; call a policeman.” THEODORUS: “ Become acquainted with the Queen of the nymphs.” . . . SISTER HELEN [nursing expert]: “A douche, smelling salts, eau de Cologne, quinine. . ,!” THEODORUS: “From the abode of . . . Brotherhood you are expelled [sods], to the British Museum you must go [svuffes], and read [pause] ‘The Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians’!” THE DEVIL: “Tut, tut, . . . Dear Sisters, the train has stopped, we are …