Ideas are often poor ghosts ; our sunfilled eyes cannot discern them ; they pass athwart us in thin vapour, and cannot make themselves felt. But sometimes they are made flesh; they breathe upon us with warm breath, they touch us with soft responsive hands,... Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Strana 3731857Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
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...with warm breath ; they touch us with soft, responsive hands ; they look at ns with sad, sincere eves, and speak to us in appealing tones ; they are clothed...drawn after them with gentle compulsion, as flame is draw ii to flame. 274 MEMS OF THE MONTH. Ever since Four Bohemian first wrote for the pages of this... | |
| 1858 - Počet stránok 588
...sometimes they breathe upon us with warm breath, they touch us with soft responsive hands, they look at us with sad sincere eyes, and speak to us in appealing...with gentle compulsion, as flame is drawn to flame. — Blackwood's Magazine. THE RELIGION OF EPITAPHS. I SPENT some time in the church-yard, spelling... | |
| George Eliot - 1858 - Počet stránok 196
...they breathe upon us with warm breath, they touch us with soft responsive hands, they look at us \vlth sad sincere eyes, and speak to us in appealing tones;...clothed in a living human soul, with all its conflicts, ils faith, and its love. Then their presence is a power, then they shake us like a passion, and we... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1858 - Počet stránok 588
...soft responsive hands they l»w>k at us with sad. sincere eyes, and speafc to us in appealing tunes; they are clothed in a living human soul, with all its conflicts, its faith, and its lore. Then thrir presence is A power, (lien they shike as like a passion, and we are drawn after them... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1858 - Počet stránok 610
...with all its conflicts, its faith, nnd its love. Then their presence 1ч a power, tlwn they shake ni like a passion, and we are drawn after them with gentle compulsion, as flame i* drawn to flnmc. EMBLEM OF THE KESUURECTION. JOHN ВгхУлУ, in his own quaint styl*, thus paraphrase's... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1913 - Počet stránok 872
...flesh; they breathe upon us with warm breath, they touch us with soft responsive hands, they look at us with sad sincere eyes, and speak to us in appealing...with gentle compulsion, as flame is drawn to flame.' Some one asked me once if I liked books or people best. It is an impossible question to answer. Books... | |
| Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1863 - Počet stránok 254
...; they bieathe upon us with warm breath, they touch us with soft responsive hands, they look at us with sad sincere eyes, and speak to us in appealing...faith, and its love. Then their presence is a power, they skake us like a passion, and we are drawn after them with gentle compulsion, as flame is drawn... | |
| 1867 - Počet stránok 978
...they breathe upon us with warm breath ; they touch us with soft, responsive hands ; they look at us with sad, sincere eyes, and speak to us in appealing...we are drawn after them with gentle compulsion, as flameis drawn to flame." Let us seek for this holy magnetism, that •will make us like our Lord, who... | |
| 1869 - Počet stránok 878
...But sometimes they are made of flesh ; they touch us with soft, responsive hands ; they look at us with sad, sincere eyes, and speak to us in appealing...with gentle compulsion, as flame is drawn to flame. — Blackwood'g Mag. The most remarkable features in the above exhibit are, first, the great contrast... | |
| George Eliot, Alexander Main - 1873 - Počet stránok 444
...; they breathe upon us with warm breath, they touch us with soft responsive hands, they look at us with sad sincere eyes, and speak to us in appealing...with gentle compulsion, as flame is drawn to flame. — o — Surely, surely the only true knowledge of our fellowman is that which enables us to feel... | |
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