A white bird, she told him once, looking at him gravely, a bird which he must carry in his bosom across a crowded public place — his own soul was like that! Memoir and Remains - Seite 3von John Miller Gray - 1895Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Walter Pater - 1885 - 248 Seiten
...the hungry wild birds on the salt marsh. A white bird, she told him once, looking at him gravely—a bird which he must carry in his bosom across a crowded...genius on the opposite side, unruffled and unsoiled ? And as his mother became to him the very type of maternity in things—its unfailing pity and protectiveness—and... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 500 Seiten
...cherished traps and springes for the hungry wild birds on the salt-marsh. A white bird, she told him once, looking at him gravely, a bird which he must carry...genius on the opposite side, unruffled and unsoiled ? And as his mother became to him the very type of maternity in things, — its unfailing pity and... | |
| Grace Thyrza Hannam Kimmins - 1899 - 282 Seiten
...meantime Polly was content to remain on at the Home. CHAPTER VI Nan " A white bird, she told him once, looking at him gravely, a bird which he must carry...genius on the opposite side unruffled and unsoiled ? " Country Holiday Cottage was empty JL . again. It was the end of the summer, and Sister Katherine... | |
| Walter Pater - 1902 - 372 Seiten
...cherished traps and springes for the hungry wild birds on the salt marsh. A white bird, she told him once, looking at him gravely, a bird which he must carry in his bosom across a crowded public place—his own soul was like that! Would it reach the hands of his good genius on the opposite side,... | |
| James Moffatt - 1906 - 160 Seiten
...as much when they talk of the " world Well lost."' GK CHESTERTON. ' A WHITE bird, she told him once, looking •^* . at him gravely, a bird which he must...crowded public place— his own soul was like that.' PATER : Marius the Epicurean, vol. i. ' HPO have one chance in life, in eternity, for a •*• white... | |
| Gladys Parrish - 1915 - 394 Seiten
...breaks up all the traps he had laid for the wild birds on the marshes. . . . ' A white bird,' she told him, looking at him gravely, ' a bird which he must...crowded public place — his own soul was like that' " It was a sudden, sharp happiness to hear her, and to know that, even though her perceptions were... | |
| Mildred Cable - 1917 - 312 Seiten
...SOUL 93 '•'- Happy the pure in heart, for they shall see God." "A white bird, she told him once, looking at him gravely. A bird which he must carry...genius on the opposite side, unruffled and unsoiled ? " — WALTER PATER. '•'- To radiate the heat of the affections into a clod, which absorbs all that... | |
| Arthur Christopher Benson - 1917 - 266 Seiten
...mood, with a scrupulous conscience carefully fostered by his mother. "A white bird, she told him once, looking at him gravely, a bird which he must carry in his bosom across a crowded public place—his own soul was like that!" There is a traditional, inherited priesthood in the family, and... | |
| Charles Lewis Hind - 1920 - 354 Seiten
...gently and beautifully. It is his mother who is speaking to Marius. "A white bird, she told him once, looking at him gravely, a bird which he must carry...genius on the opposite side, unruffled and unsoiled?" We all know so much about the Renaissance, and the great figures who moved through it (indeed we are... | |
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