The Captives: A Novel in Four PartsGeorge H. Doran Company, 1920 - 452 páginas These people are captives in a religious environment, sometimes meanly orthodox, sometimes strangely but fervently fanatical. The love story is of the reunion of a man and woman after many wanderings and an unhappy marriage. One is especially interested in the environment. --www.manybooks.net. |
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Página 50 - The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, 'Prepare ye the way of the Lord, Make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, And every mountain and hill shall be made low: And the crooked shall be made straight, And the rough places plain: And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, And all flesh shall see it together: For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Página 208 - As fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in luve am I, And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a' the seas gang dry. Till a" the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi
Página 208 - That's sweetly play'd in tune. As fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in luve am I: And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a...
Página 15 - Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil : for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff comfort me. Thou shalt prepare a table before me against them that trouble me : thou hast anointed my head with oil, and my cup shall be full.
Página 50 - Behold, the Lord God will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.
Página 29 - Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death ; which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good ; Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dire.
Página 50 - Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned : for she hath received of the Lord's hand double for all her sins.
Página 50 - O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice ' with strength; lift it up, be not afraid: say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!
Página 50 - All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass witheretli, the flower fadeth, because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth ; but the word of our GOD shall stand for ever.