Felix Holt: The Radical, Volume 2W. Blackwood and sons, 1913 |
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Page 167 - I also could speak as ye do, if your soul were in my soul's stead ; I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
Page 107 - Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand Henceforward in thy shadow. Nevermore Alone upon the threshold of my door Of individual life, I shall command The uses of my soul, nor lift my hand Serenely in the sunshine as before, Without the sense of that which I forbore — Thy touch upon the palm. The widest land Doom takes to part us, leaves thy heart in mine With pulses that beat double. What I do 5*5 And what I dream include thee, as the wine Must taste of its own grapes. And when I sue God for...
Page 76 - And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death; that he told her all his heart...
Page 293 - I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
Page 39 - I wonder," he went on, still looking at her, " whether the subtle measuring of forces will ever come to measuring the force there would be in one beautiful woman whose mind was as noble as her face was beautiful — who made a man's passion for her rush in one current with all the great aims of his life.
Page 90 - and that is public opinion — the ruling belief in society about what is right and what is wrong, what is ' honourable and what is shameful. That's the steam that is to work the engines. How can political freedom make us better, any more than a religion we don't believe in, if people laugh and wink when they see men abuse and defile it ? And while public opinion is what it is — while men have no better...
Page 248 - Dear friend, far off, my lost desire, So far, so near in woe and weal ; O loved the most, when most I feel There is a lower and a higher ; Known and unknown ; human, divine; Sweet human hand and lips and eye ; Dear heavenly friend that canst not die, Mine, mine, for ever, ever mine ; Strange friend, past, present, and to be ; Loved deeplier, darklier understood ; Behold, I dream a dream of good, And mingle all the world with thee.
Page 41 - I want," said Felix, looking at her very earnestly. " Don't turn your head. Do look at me, and then I shall know if I may go on speaking. I do believe in you ; but I want you to have such a vision of the future that you may never lose your best self. Some charm or other may be flung about you — some of your atta-of-rose fascinations — and nothing but a good strong terrible vision will save you.
Page 340 - Low she wills : to know that high initiation, she must often tread where it is hard to tread, and feel the chill air, and watch through darkness. It is not true that love makes all things easy : it makes us choose what is difficult.
Page 248 - Yet none could better know than I, How much of act at human hands The sense of human will demands, By which we dare to live or die. Whatever way my days decline, I felt and feel, tho' left alone, His being working in mine own.