The Monks of ThelemaRose-Belford Publishing Company, 1878 - 426 pages |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Abbess Abbey of Thelema Alan Dunlop Alan's Alma Bostock Alma's asked Athelston bailiff beautiful beer began believe better Black Bess Brother Lancelot Brother Peregrine Caledon called cheek cottage cried culture Dalmeny Hall dance daughter dear delightful demona Desdemona Despard dinner dress Exton eyes face farm father feeling friends gamekeeper garden girl give hand happy Harry Cardew head heart kiss knew labourers laughed live looked Lord Alwyne lover mamma marriage marry mean mind Miss Dalmeny Miss Miranda Monks MONKS OF THELEMA morning mother Nelly never once Paul Rondelet perhaps pity play pleasant poor pretty replied round seemed sighed silence Sister Rosalind sitting smile smock-frock Spotted Lion Squire Stephen Bostock stood suppose sure sympathy talk tell things thought Tom Caledon took village walked Weyland Court wife woman women word young lady
Popular passages
Page 425 - Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That in a spleen unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up, So quick bright things come to confusion.
Page 426 - The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear : for several virtues Have I liked several women ; never any With so full soul, but some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed, And put it to the foil : but you, O you, So perfect, and so peerless, are created Of every creature's best.
Page 260 - mid lawny hills Which the wild sea-murmur fills, And soft sunshine, and the sound Of old forests echoing round, And the light and smell divine Of all flowers that breathe and shine.
Page 151 - Idalian Aphrodite beautiful, Fresh as the foam, new-bathed in Paphian wells> With rosy slender fingers backward drew From her warm brows and bosom her deep hair Ambrosial, golden round her lucid throat And shoulder : from the violets her light foot Shone rosy-white, and o'er her rounded form Between the shadows of the vine-bunches Floated the glowing sunlights, as she moved.
Page 87 - The mansion's self was vast and venerable, With more of the monastic than has been Elsewhere preserved : the cloisters still were stable. The cells, too, and refectory, I ween ; An exquisite small chapel had been able, Still unimpair'd, to decorate the scene ; The rest had been reform'd, replaced, or sunk, And spoke more of the baron than the monk.
Page 211 - What the eye does not see the heart does not grieve " than " not to see is not to mourn " (dekhvun nahi ne dajeun nahin). Yet we have nothing so good as " to a wooden god give a slipper" as an offering (lakdana devne khasdani puja).
Page 53 - The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with another's need; Not what we give, but what we share, ! For the gift without the giver is bare; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
Page 363 - He took her hand and raised it to his lips with a courtesy more than Castilian. " I ask no more, Desdemona. Tell me another time what you have done." " You will have to thank Tom Caledon," she replied. "It is he, and a third person who is indispensable, whom you will have to thank." " Tell me no more, Desdemona. What thanks of mine could equal this service ? Tell me no more.
Page 170 - That hangs his head, and a' that ? The coward-slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that ; The rank is but the guinea stamp ; The man's the gowd for a