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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...s he cast his net, clouds over the mountain. I noticed Atthis against the luminous water, her fragile face trusting life. Her yellow ringlets in my ... ...is enviously, twirls, quivering masterfully, and has for odor the hollow mysteries, orgies for leaving, orgies for coming; the oracle comes, com... ...orgies for coming; the oracle comes, comes with companions, comes with mysteries, lover of mine, displays this randy madness I joyfully proclaim.... ...this enviously, that’s suitable... twirls, quivering masterfully...hollow mysteries...there are good things... Dawn came and there were the sounds o... ...on. Birth. Death. Each is a mystery. In my father’s house I grew up among mysteries. I heard them talked, argued over, curtly dismissed. I have rese... ...shell that I pick up on the beach has its mystery. Some say I am a man of mysteries. Does the turtle have its mysteries? I VOICES FROM THE PAST ... ...lowed my house, trees, sun, and stars: I heard a woman scream inside this luminous thing. Behind the folds was a bearded face, coming closer and clo...

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Sappho's Journal

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...s he cast his net, clouds over the mountain. I noticed Atthis against the luminous water, her fragile face trusting life. Her yellow ringlets in my ... ...is enviously, twirls, quivering masterfully, and has for odor the hollow mysteries, orgies for leaving, orgies for coming; the oracle comes, com... ...orgies for coming; the oracle comes, comes with companions, comes with mysteries, lover of mine, displays this randy madness I joyfully proclaim.... ...this enviously, that’s suitable... twirls, quivering masterfully...hollow mysteries...there are good things... Dawn came and there were the sounds o...

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Secret of the Sands

By: Aren, Rai and E., Tavius

...hesands.com To the myriad of life on earth and all its mysteries and magic that inspire us and fire our imaginati... ...ared out over the horizon, as though it knew it would one day guard hidden things, deeper mysteries. The golden eyes were strikingly rimmed in black... ...the task at hand. However, their thoughts were becoming more and more consumed with the mysteries they had unearthed. They continually worried abou... ...w things and absorbed it all with great enthusiasm. CHAPTER 18 MYSTERIES ARISE THE time had finally come for the King... ...ek, there is something I need to tell you.” “What is it?” he asked, looking deep into her luminous topaz eyes. “It is about the Amsara site.” He lo... ...f pure gold, flecked throughout with amber. His skin a flawless, pale golden color with a luminous opalescent quality to it. His long jet-black hair ...

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Introduction to the Book of Zohar

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...ll and the great spheres such as the earth, the moon, or the sun, however luminous, and not to the vegetative and not to the animate, for they lack t... ... goes: "how do we tell a true tshuva (repentance)? Until He who knows all mysteries will testify that he will not fail again". And it turns out that ... ...their purification does not have to be permanent, "until He who knows all mysteries will testify that he will not fail again". That is because the w... ...ill to receive and turns it into a will to bestow "until He who knows all mysteries will testify that he will not fail again", he is already in equiv...

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The Religious Dimension

By: Donald Broadribb

...account of its frequency. I refer to hallucinatory or pseudo-hallucinatory luminous phe- nomena, photisms, to use the term of the psychologists. Saint... ...“super-consciousness,” meaning that there are no longer unexperienced deep mysteries. Such en- MYSTICISM 169 counter is called satori in Zen, in whic... ...onveying a sense of mystery or the mysterious. This multiplicity of sacred mysteries tends to coalesce into an ultimate unity expressed through polysy...

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The Count of Monte Cristo Voulume Two

By: Alexandre Dumas

... Cristo with renewed energy. “Ah, now you are trying to penetrate into the mysteries of Isis, in which I am not initiated. When M. Andrea Cavalcanti h... ...my childish mind, always seems enveloped in a vague at- mosphere, which is luminous or otherwise, according as my re- membrances of it are sad or joyo... ... the bell, and call for help. But through the door she fancied she saw the luminous eye of the count — that eye which lived in her memory, and the rec... ...upon his goat-skin, which reminded him of the smell of the brandy. But the mysteries of nature are incomprehensible, and there are certain invitations...

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The French Revolution a History Volume Two

By: Thomas Carlyle

...ance have met; have parted with mutual trust! It is strange; secret as the Mysteries; but it is indubitable. Mirabeau took horse, one evening; and rod... ...ly awak- ened: for their stormbell rattles and rings; their eyes glis- ten luminous (with tallow-light), as in rattle-snake ire; and the Village will ... ...th plot and riot, tumult by night and by day; but a dark combus- tion, not luminous, not noticed; which now, however, one cannot help noticing. Above ... ...teenth morning of October 1791, the unquenched combustion suddenly becomes luminous! For Anti-constitutional Placards are up, and the Statue of the Vi... ...ra.) Such is the combustion of Avignon and the South-West, when it becomes luminous! Long loud debate is in the august Legislative, in the Mother-Soci... ...entre of an invisible Anti-National Spider- web, which, for we sleep among mysteries, stretches its threads to the ends of the Earth? Journalist Carra... ...world? it has become necessary now to look at that also. Fair France is so luminous: and round and round it, is troublous Cimmerian Night. Calonnes, B...

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The History Of

By: H. G. Wells

...ely, for no one had ever troubled to teach his mother any- thing about the mysteries of a child’s upbringing—though of course the monthly nurse and he... ...thought it would be splendid to be a diver and go down into the dark green mysteries of the sea. He led stormers against well-nigh impregnable forts, ... ...n way beneath him and he had dropped through into another, into a world of luminous clouds and of desolate hopeless wildernesses of desiring and of wi... ...tly, became incredibly busy with wire and brass junctions and all sorts of mysteries. “Fix it to the (kik) bathroom tap!” said Mr. Rusper. Next door t... ... aloud in the pitiless dark- ness for him? He peered into the unfathomable mysteries of the heart, and ducked back to a smaller issue. Wa s he feeble?...

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Droll Stories Volume I : The First Ten Tales

By: Honoré de Balzac

... hour the seneschal slept, succumbing to the sun which warms with its most luminous rays the slopes of Roche- Corbon, so much so that one is obliged t... ...eet sample of a plump white thigh, and such voluptuous specimens of hidden mysteries, et cetera, that death seemed sweet to him if he could only taste...

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The French Revolution a History Volume Three

By: Thomas Carlyle

...particuliere. How changed for Marat; lifted from his dark cellar into this luminous ‘peculiar tribune!’ All dogs have their day; even rabid dogs. Sor... ...here was an Unnameable; she too was a Daughter of the Infinite; there were mysteries which Philosophism had not dreamt of!—She left long written couns... ...lity having provided no food, no condi- ment, but left it to chance. Other mysteries, seemingly of a Cabiric or even Paphian character, we heave under...

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An Historical Mystery

By: Honoré de Balzac

...d the man might lose itself and never find either warmth or motion. Fixed, luminous, and rigid, those eyes terrified whoever gazed into them. The sing... ...na (allied to the deepest 108 An Historical Mystery and most impenetrable mysteries), would have found its so- lution. The Revolution had deepened th...

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A Reading of Life

By: George Meredith

...s, for harmonies, For mastered discords, and the things Not vocable, whose mysteries Are inmost Love’s, Life’s reach of Life extend. Is it an anguish ... ...iew T ranscendent or subdued evoked T o speak the memorable, the true, The luminous as a moon uncloaked; For proof that there, among earth’s dumb, A s...

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The Brotherhood of Consolation

By: Honoré de Balzac

...wing, given him comfort; on the threatening horizon of his future he saw a luminous space where shone the blue of ether, and he followed that light as... ... in his accustomed place. Godefroid retired, joyful in at last sharing the mysteries of that house and in having an occupation, which, feeling as he d...

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Memorials and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

... of religiosity, and even of ascetic devo- tion, was already diffused as a luminous mist that served to exalt the coloring of her morality. To this ex... ...a dignity which it never dreamed of. Thus, for instance, in the Eleusinian mysteries, what was the main business transacted? I, for my part, in harmon... ...gan religion,— have always maintained that the only end and purpose of the mysteries was a more solemn and impressive worship of a particular goddess.... ...ular visit of my own dur- ing which I was initiating Lady Carbery into the mysteries of New T estament Greek. Already as an infant I had known Mr. Whi... ...ts con- tradictory genealogies, the disputed meaning of its many se- cret “mysteries” [teletai—symbolic rites or initiations], all these have been sub... ...e contend is, that it is not the solution. All great prophecies, all great mysteries, are likely to involve double, triple, or even qua- druple interp...

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The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury

By: E. C. Thomas

...nd the nodes of the planets by fig ures and numbers; there Paul reveals the mysteries; there his neighbour Dionysius arranges and distinguishes the h... ...ued with an almost Divine liber ality, not greedy but fitting possessors of luminous wisdom. Besides all the opportunities mentioned above, we secure... ...rld, so much the less does it aid the children of light in comprehending the mysteries of holy writ and the secret sacraments of the faith, seeing tha... ...he ant arctic pole, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard; we ad mire the luminous Milky Way and the Zodiac, marvellously and delightfully pictured...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...nd took an uncut book from the high desk. “Here is some sort of Key to the Mysteries that your Heloise has sent you. Religious! I don’t interfere with... ... But Julie did not flatter her friend, the princess’ eyes— large, deep and luminous (it seemed as if at times there radi- ated from them shafts of war... ... little wife. The princess pondered awhile with a thoughtful smile and her luminous eyes lit up so that her face was entirely trans- formed. Then she ... ... rather read the Epistles and Gos- pels. Let us not seek to penetrate what mysteries they contain; for how can we, miserable sinners that we are, know... ... brother, and through her tears the loving, warm, gentle look of her large luminous eyes, very beautiful at that moment, rested on Prince Andrew’s fac...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Three

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...arkness now hovered above us- but from out the milky depths of the ocean a luminous glare arose, and stole up along the bulwarks of the boat. We were ... ...rock.” LIGEIA And the will therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigor? For God is but a great will pervadin... ...orld, a sentiment such as I felt always aroused within me by her large and luminous orbs. Y et not the more could I define that sentiment, or analyze,... ...e sentiment;—“And the will therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigor? For God is but a great will pervadin... ...hild groping benighted. Her presence, her readings alone, rendered vividly luminous the many mysteries of the transcen- dentalism in which we were imm... ...hted. Her presence, her readings alone, rendered vividly luminous the many mysteries of the transcen- dentalism in which we were immersed. Wanting the... ...ot once conquered? Are we not part and parcel in Thee? Who—who knoweth the mysteries of the will with its vigor? Man doth not yield him to the angels,... ...t the orbs grew bright to a degree almost incon- ceivable; seeming to emit luminous rays, not of a reflected but of an intrinsic lustre, as does a can...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Two

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...th. ****Common experiments in Natural Philosophy. If two red rays from two luminous points be admitted into a dark cham- ber so as to fall on a white ... ...s that I should never be able to tell my old companions on shore about the mysteries I should see. These, no doubt, were sin- gular fancies to occupy ... ...eption of this nature will bring you near a comprehension of what it is. A luminous body imparts vibration to the luminiferous ether. The vibrations g... ...imes remarkable. A cadaverousness of complexion; an eye large, liquid, and luminous beyond comparison; lips somewhat thin and very pallid, but of a su... ... III. Wanderers in that happy valley Through two luminous windows saw Spirits moving musically To a lute’s wel... ...or of his countenance had assumed, if possible, a more ghastly hue—but the luminousness of his eye had utterly gone out. The once occasional huskiness... ... human being besides myself and my valet, who has been admitted within the mysteries of these imperial precincts, since they have been bedizzened as y...

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Madame Bovary

By: Gustave Flaubert

...e songs, and literature for its passional stimu- lus, rebelled against the mysteries of faith as it grew irritated by discipline, a thing antipathetic... ...s, initiate you into the energies of passion, the refinements of life, all mysteries? But this one taught nothing, knew nothing, wished nothing. He th... ... with velvet and gold-fringed cloths. There were dresses with trains, deep mysteries, anguish hidden beneath smiles. Then came the society of the duch... ...les’s shoulder; then, 132 Madame Bovary raising her chin, she watched the luminous rays of the rockets against the dark sky . Rodolphe gazed at her i... ... eyes. Here and there around her, in the leaves or on the ground, trembled luminous patches, as it hummingbirds flying about had scattered their feath... ...med to writhe through the very depths like a heedless serpent covered with luminous scales; it also resembled some monster candelabra all along which ... ...vanced, looking at the paving-stones, saying to herself, “Come! come!” The luminous ray that came straight up from below drew the weight of her body t... ...middle of the chancel they acted; they per- formed a kind of farce called ‘Mysteries,’ which often of- fended against the laws of decency.” The eccles... ...e lights of the town were seen more and more completely , mak- ing a great luminous vapour about the dim houses. Emma knelt on the cushions and her ey...

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Ferragus Chief of the Devorants

By: Honoré de Balzac

... spun glass), or the whirl of white water which the wind is driving like a luminous dust along the roofs, or the fitful disgorgements of the gutter-pi... ...ch they now lived, the police and the government were able to lay bare all mysteries, and that if it were absolutely necessary to have recourse to tho... ...fices of the hair, and the garlands or the jewels that adorned it. No more mysteries! all is over for the husband; no more paint- ing or decoration fo...

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The Divine Comedy Volume 2 Purgatory [Purgatorio]

By: Dante Aligheri

...y thought I said, “What thing is this?” And a sweet melody ran through the luminous air; whereupon a righteous zeal caused me to blame the temerity of... ...he sleep of Dante may signify the impotency of human reason to explain the mysteries of redemption. 15 “As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume One

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...demonstrating the author’s wonderful capability of correctly analyzing the mysteries of the human mind; such tales of illusion and banter as “The Prem... ...refract light enough into its dark hemi- sphere to produce a twilight more luminous than the light re- flected from the earth when the moon is about 3... ...if it so please your Excellen- cies — above all, of those dark and hideous mysteries which lie in the outer regions of the moon — regions which, owing... ...ations is, I presume, utterly impossible; yet a curiosity to penetrate the mysteries of these awful regions, predominates even over my despair, and wi...

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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

...ance have met; have parted with mutual trust! It is strange; secret as the Mysteries; but it is indubitable. Mirabeau took horse, one evening; and rod... ...ddenly awakened: for their stormbell rattles and rings; their eyes glisten luminous (with tallow-light), as in rattle-snake ire; and the Village will ... ...with plot and riot, tumult by night and by day; but a dark combustion, not luminous, not noticed; which now, however, one cannot help noticing. Above ... ...teenth morning of October 1791, the unquenched combustion suddenly becomes luminous! For Anti-constitutional Placards are up, and the Statue of the Vi... ...ra.) Such is the combustion of Avignon and the South-West, when it becomes luminous! Long loud debate is in the august Legis- lative, in the Mother-So... ...en- tre of an invisible Anti-National Spiderweb, which, for we sleep among mysteries, stretches its threads to the ends of the Earth? Journalist Carra... ...world? it has become necessary now to look at that also. Fair France is so luminous: and round and round it, is troublous Cimmerian Night. Calonnes, B... ...here was an Unnameable; she too was a Daughter of the Infinite; there were mysteries which Philosophism had not dreamt of!—She left long written couns... ...pality having provided no food, no condiment, but left it to chance. Other mysteries, seemingly of a Cabiric or even Paphian character, we heave under...

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To Build a Fire : And Other Stories

By: Jack London

...e camp fire and joined them. The cabin In a Far Country 29 was one of the many mysteries which lurk in the vast recesses of the North. Built when and ... ...at stirs. Your eyes are like a deer’s eyes now as you look at me.” And El Soo, luminous and melting, bent and kissed Akoon. “When we reach the Mackenz... ...He could sit for hours gazing at a solitary flower and philosophizing about the mysteries and riddles of being. A blue heron on a tiny crescent of sand... ...been placed the mark of the beast. They sat, flower garlanded, in the perfumed, luminous night, and their lips made uncouth noises and their throats ra... ...dom of the stars. What engines and elements and mastered forces, what lore and mysteries and destiny controls, might be there! Undoubtedly, since so m...

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The Longest Journey

By: E. M. Forster

...n did he wonder it when he woke with a gasp in the night to find a harp in luminous paint throbbing and glowering at him from the adjacent wall. “Watc... ...em hardly right.” Those had been her words, her only complaint against the mysteries of change and death. She bowed her head and laboured to make her ... ...lowly forward into the wilderness, that turned from brown to black. Then a luminous 258 The Longest Journey glimmer surrounded them, and the air grew...

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Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...he alert, and had summoned Urquiza from T rujillo. By some means, not very luminously stated, and by paying proper fees in proper quarters, Kate was s... ...y!—to whom? Revenge!—for what? Ask not, whisper not. Look upwards to other mysteries. In the very region of his temples, driving itself downwards into... ..., when some brilliant skirmishings of the Aurora are exhibiting, or even a luminous arch, which is a broad ribbon of snowy light that spans the skies,... ...st public credit. But most readers will be aware of similar appeals to the mysteries of 243 Thomas de Quincey Providence, made in public by illustrio... ...y philosophy of Paganism, and its slight root in the terrors or profounder mysteries of spiritual nature, no comparison could be sus- tained for a mom... ... human sensibilities, to a depth below the surface. If cold could give out mysteries of suffer- *‘Harry Gill:’—Many readers, in this generation, may n...

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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

By: John Locke

...y and polite conversation. Vague and insignificant forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard and ... ...lections of simple ideas united in one subject, and so co-existing together; v.g. our idea of flame is a body hot, luminous, and moving upward; of gol...

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What Is Man and Other Essays of Mark Twain

By: Mark Twain

...t is in it by reading it mutely: Mr. Dyer is rather of the opinion, first luminously suggested by Macaulay, that Machiavelli was in earnest, but must... ...t their common sense, re duce them to statistics, and reproduce them in a luminous prose translation which shall tell you at a glance what the poet w... ... for fourteen years the de spair of all the scholars who labored over the mysteries of the Rosetta stone: [ Image not available—ed. ] After five yea... ...nced; he said a man could learn how to correctly handle the subtleties and mysteries and free masonries of any trade by careful reading and study in... ...el and drill and fuse. I have been a surface miner—gold—and I know all its mysteries, and the dialects that belongs with them; and whenever Harte intr...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Five

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...pair of heart and convulsion of throat, on account of the hideous- ness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be re- vealed. Now and then, ... ...er bright eyes — Come up, through the lair of the Lion, With love in her luminous eyes.” But Psyche, uplifting her finger, Said—“Sadly this star I... ...he side of the sea. 1849. A V ALENTINE For her this rhyme is penned, whose luminous eyes, Brightly expressive as the twins of Loeda, Shall find her ... ...gigantically down. There open fanes and gaping graves Y awn level with the luminous waves; But not the riches there that lie In each idol’s diamond ey... ...ic of our high renown— “Not all the wonder that encircles us— “Not all the mysteries that in us lie— “Not all the memories that hang upon “And cling a... ... A winged odour went away. Wanderers in that happy valley, Through two luminous windows, saw Spirits moving musically, To a lute’s well-tuned la... ...ler, travelling through it, May not—dare not openly view it; Never its mysteries are exposed To the weak human eye unclosed; So wills its King... ...broken, Is a symbol and a token— How it hangs upon the trees, A mystery of mysteries!— 1827. 222 EA Poe A DREAM In visions of the dark night I have...

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Thus Spake Zarathustra

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

...iness is still on its way ‘twixt heaven and earth, now seeketh for lodging a luminous soul: with 147 Friedrich Nietzsche happiness hath all light now... ...s to ourselves, and to smile uncloudedly:— —Uncloudedly to smile down out of luminous eyes and out of miles of distance, when under us constraint and ... ...d heaven, rather will I sit in the abyss without heaven, than see thee, thou luminous heaven, tainted with passing clouds! And oft have I longed to pi... ...ver, am a blesser and a Yea-sayer, if thou be but around me, thou pure, thou luminous heaven! Thou abyss of light!—into all abysses do I then carry my... ...golden bar; the prince proposeth, but the shopman— disposeth! By all that is luminous and strong and good in thee, O Zarathustra! Spit on this city of... ...t falls into the hands of the uniniti- ated. The title suggests all kinds of mysteries; a glance at the chapter-headings quickly confirms the suspicio...

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The Collected Poems

By: William Butler Yeats

...e in half sleep, Their swords upon their iron knees, Brood her high lonely mysteries. A POET TO HIS BELOVED I BRING you with reverent hands The books ... ...ones and thorn trees, under morning light; Until a curlew cried and in the luminous wind A curlew answered; and suddenly thereupon I thought That on t... ...awn breath When it was forged. In Sato’s house, Curved like new moon, moon luminous It lay five hundred years. Yet if no change appears No moon; only a... ...use, A sycamore and lime tree lost in night Although that western cloud is luminous, Great works constructed there in nature’s spite For scholars and ... ...and Blind Man stole the bread Cuchulain fought the ungovernable sea; Heart mysteries there, and yet when all is said It was the dream itself enchanted... ...if I Have lit upon a woman who so shares Your thirst for those old crabbed mysteries, So strains to look beyond Our life, an eye That never knew that ...

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Sartor Resartus the Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr Ockh

By: Thomas Carlyle

... of Quack ery, Priestcraft, Kingcraft, and the innumerable other crafts and mysteries of that genus, had not ranked in Productive Industry at all! Ca... ...e ground, and shoot upwards, cleaving the liquid deeps, till it dwindle to a luminous star: but what is there to look longer on, when once, by natural... ...eror Tarakwang, and the “White Water roses” (Chi nese Carbonari) with their mysteries, no notice here! Of Napoleon himself we shall only, glancing fr... ...balls, and supernal and infernal prodigies, which, in the case of the Jewish Mysteries, have also more than once scared back the Alien? Be this as it ...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Four

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...re anal- ogy was suddenly let fall. But even admitting the central orb non-luminous, how did he manage to explain its failure to be rendered visible b... ...n the hero of the Bugaboo and Kickapoo campaign. However, the delightfully luminous conversation of Brevet Brigadier General John A. B. C. Smith soon ... ...is is indeed no dream! CHARMION. Dreams are with us no more; —but of these mysteries anon. I rejoice to see you looking life-like and rational. The fi...

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An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks Upon Contemporary Matters

By: H. G. Wells

...t all the Greek and Roman literature in well-printed translations and with luminous introductions—and if there were no good translations he would give... ...- ner, thrusts twopence or ninepence (got God knows how) into the economic mysteries and personal delicacy of Brown. I’d as soon a man slipped sixpenc... ...lmost stupidly not interested in 160 An Englishman Looks at the World the mysteries of material fact, nor in the riddles and great dramatic movements... ...stic animals; he was beginning to think of the origin of the world and the mysteries of being. Writing had added its enduring records to oral traditio...

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Paradise Lost

By: John Milton

...n the firm opacous Globe Of this round World, whose first convex divides The luminous inferior Orbs, enclos’d From CHAOS and th’ inroad of Darkness ol... ...and with her part averse From the Suns beam meet Night, her other part Still luminous by his ray. What if that light Sent from her through the wide t... ...arne, Wolves shall succeed for teachers, grievous Wolves, Who all the sacred mysteries of Heav’n To thir own vile advantages shall turne Of lucre and ...

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Selected Writings

By: Guy de Maupassant

...erstand because we cannot find the cause,” we immediately imagine terrible mysteries and supernatural powers. July 14. Fete of the Republic. I walked ... ...time, and at last the sky began to grow pale. The snow became quite clear, luminous, and bright, and a rosy tint appeared in the east. Sud- denly a vo... ...d. Then with the tip of the bone that had been his forefinger, he wrote in luminous letters, like those lines which boys trace on walls with the tip o...

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Man and Superman a Comedy and a Philosophy

By: George Bernard Shaw

...ure, light and heat. Now if I am to be no mere copper wire ama- teur but a luminous author, I must also be a most intensely refractory person, liable ... ...pturous rivers of the very water of life itself, the revelation of all the mysteries and the sanc- tification of all the dogmas. To her mother she is,...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...nd took an uncut book from the high desk. “Here is some sort of Key to the Mysteries that your Heloise has sent you. Religious! I don’t interfere with... .... But Julie did not flatter her friend, the princess’ eyes—large, deep and luminous (it seemed as if at times there radiated from them shafts of warm ... ... little wife. The princess pondered awhile with a thoughtful smile and her luminous eyes lit up so that her face was entirely transformed. Then she su... ...us rather read the Epistles and Gospels. Let us not seek to penetrate what mysteries they con- tain; for how can we, miserable sinners that we are, kn... ... brother, and through her tears the loving, warm, gentle look of her large luminous eyes, very beautiful at that moment, rested on Prince Andrew’s fac... ...ater. Princess Mary had long since put aside her book: she sat silent, her luminous eyes fixed on her nurse’s wrinkled face (every line of which she k... .... Prince Andrew looked at his sister. In the dim shadow of the curtain her luminous eyes shone more brightly than usual from the tears of joy that wer... ...the confidence of many highly placed persons, had been initiated into many mysteries, had been raised to a higher grade, and was bringing back with hi... ...g, with a written speech in his hand, “it is not sufficient to observe our mysteries in the seclusion of our lodge— we must act—act! We are drowsing, ...

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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

...g there, the vast field of mythical constructions became intelligible, nay, luminous with the reflected light of correspondences. But to gather in this ... ...d not only revived but expanded that grand conception of supreme events as mysteries at which the successive ages were spectators, and in relation to ... ...s to expect that the wisdom of providence or the folly of our friends, the mysteries of luck or the still greater mystery of our high individual value... ...mall monograph on some lately traced indications concern ing the Egyptian mysteries whereby certain assertions of Warburton’s could be corrected. Ref... ...nt of praise. He spoke very handsomely of my late tractate on the Egyptian Mysteries,— using, in fact, terms which it would not become me to repeat.” ... ...d with a power of comparison by which himself and his doings were seen too luminously as a part of things in general. His discontent passed vapor like...

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The Federalist Papers

By: Alexander Hamilton

...oper to quote at length these interesting passages, because they contain a luminous abridgment of the principal arguments in favor of the Union, and m... ...himself condescends to address mankind in their own language, his meaning, luminous as it must be, is rendered dim and doubtful by the cloudy medium t... ...ter- rific visages of murdering janizaries, and to blush at the un- veiled mysteries of a future seraglio. Attempts so extravagant as these to disfigu...

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The Noble Qur'An

By: Rev. J. M. Rodwell

...es. In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful Ha. Mim. 1 By the Luminous Book! We have made it an Arabic Koran that ye may understand: And ... ...e the faith, When they had before denied it, and aimed their shafts at the mysteries from afar? 10 And a gulf shall be between them and that which the...

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