Beauty and your sleep: Study spells out the science behind beauty rest
Sleep-Deprived Individuals Appear Less Healthy and Attractive, Study Finds
Swedish researchers say there’s an important link between sleep and your physical appearance. In a study published today (Dec.15,2010) in the British Medical Journal, researcher John Axelsson and his team at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm found that sleep-deprived individuals appear less healthy, more tired, and less attractive than those who have received a full night’s worth of sleep.
“Sleep is the body’s natural beauty treatment,” Axelsson said. “It’s probably more effective than any other treatment you could buy.”
Subjects Photographed Before and After Sleep Deprivation
In the study, 23 healthy adults from ages 18 to 31 were first photographed after eight hours of sleep, wearing no makeup. The same adults were photographed again after sleeping only five hours and being kept awake for a full 31 hours, with the same lighting and camera settings.
The photos were rated by 65 untrained observers who graded the images in these three categories — how healthy, attractive, and tired the individuals appeared. On the whole, the participants were judged to be worse-off after sleep deprivation, in all categories, and the scientists believe the effects would be even more dramatic in person, when factors like blink rate and drowsiness could be observed.
Only one photo set was publicly released from the sample, showing a young man. After sleep deprivation, his eyes seem duller and the skin under his eyes appears puffy.
While the effects in Axelsson’s research were observed after severe sleep deprivation, he says his team will soon tackle whether an occasional short night of sleep can also cause problems. This experiment called for severe deprivation because the scientists wanted to maximize any effects.
“We cannot really say when the effects start … if it’s six hours or five hours, but it probably starts gradually,” Axelsson said. “It’s possible that you get these effects through chronic sleep deprivation as well,”
Study Prompted by Daughter’s ‘Sleeping Beauty’ Question
The idea of beauty rest is ingrained in popular culture, but it’s apparently never been put to the test by science. Axelsson said his young daughter gave him the reason to take on the subject. She was watching the classic animated film “Sleeping Beauty” when she had a question.
“My daughter asked me, why is the sleeping beauty so beautiful? Is it because she sleeps a lot?” Axelsson recalled. “As a scientist, I couldn’t answer, so I had to do a study.”
The Swedish research team says its findings have implications beyond looking good. Axelsson said that the findings could be important for doctors, who should familiarize themselves with the sleep history of a patient to provide a more precise diagnosis.
Plenty of research points to the importance of a good night’s sleep. Over the years, studies have found links between poor sleep and Alzheimer’s disease, depression, and even weight gain. In 2008, the Centers for Disease Control found that 50 to 70 million Americans suffer from constant sleep loss or sleep disorders, and the number of people averaging six hours of sleep or less was on the rise.
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A Labrador Spring $20.09 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.Excerpt from book:Section 3CHAPTER II FROM SEVEN ISLANDS TO ESQUIMAUX POINT ” Backward and forward, along the shore Of lorn and desolate Labrador And found at last her way To the Seven Islands Bay.” — textit{li’hittirr /”N most maps the name Labrador is attached only to the narrow strip under the jurisdiction of Newfoundland on the Atlantic coast, yet it belongs in reality to the entire peninsula which begins at the Gulf of St. Lawrence at the point where the soth parallel strikes the coast. A line drawn from this point to the southern extremity of Hudson Bay, or rather of its offshoot, James Bay, separates the great peninsula from the rest of Canada. This westernmost point of the Labrador coast in the Gulf of St. Lawrence is about thirty miles to the west of Seven Islands, and about three hundred and fifty east of Quebec. As we approached the Labrador coast, after INDIAN MOTHER AND TEN DAYS OLD INFANT. THE TOWN OF SEVEN ISLANDS. an interesting sail down the mighty St. Lawrence from Quebec, we could see in the clear morning air the precipitous mountains of Gaspe sixty miles to the south, in places white with snow and brilliantly illuminated by the morning sun, but dark in the shadows of the deep ravines. The whole southern coast of Labrador is notable for its rivers which empty their floods, swelled in the spring by the melting snows, into the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The first of these is the St. Marguerite River, which, like nearly all these rivers, cuts through sand bluffs and is partly blocked by a bar extending part way across the mouth from the east. The town of about a dozen houses is perched on the western bank with a setting of dark spruce forest. The bay of Seven Islands is of great beauty and forms a nearly circular basin some four miles in diameter, and almost completely landlocked. Seve… |
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A Labrador Spring $21.24 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.Excerpt from book:Section 3CHAPTER II FROM SEVEN ISLANDS TO ESQUIMAUX POINT ” Backward and forward, along the shore Of lorn and desolate Labrador And found at last her way To the Seven Islands Bay.” — textit{li’hittirr /”N most maps the name Labrador is attached only to the narrow strip under the jurisdiction of Newfoundland on the Atlantic coast, yet it belongs in reality to the entire peninsula which begins at the Gulf of St. Lawrence at the point where the soth parallel strikes the coast. A line drawn from this point to the southern extremity of Hudson Bay, or rather of its offshoot, James Bay, separates the great peninsula from the rest of Canada. This westernmost point of the Labrador coast in the Gulf of St. Lawrence is about thirty miles to the west of Seven Islands, and about three hundred and fifty east of Quebec. As we approached the Labrador coast, after INDIAN MOTHER AND TEN DAYS OLD INFANT. THE TOWN OF SEVEN ISLANDS. an interesting sail down the mighty St. Lawrence from Quebec, we could see in the clear morning air the precipitous mountains of Gaspe sixty miles to the south, in places white with snow and brilliantly illuminated by the morning sun, but dark in the shadows of the deep ravines. The whole southern coast of Labrador is notable for its rivers which empty their floods, swelled in the spring by the melting snows, into the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The first of these is the St. Marguerite River, which, like nearly all these rivers, cuts through sand bluffs and is partly blocked by a bar extending part way across the mouth from the east. The town of about a dozen houses is perched on the western bank with a setting of dark spruce forest. The bay of Seven Islands is of great beauty and forms a nearly circular basin some four miles in diameter, and almost completely landlocked. Seve… |
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A Labrador Spring $21.23 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.Excerpt from book:Section 3CHAPTER II FROM SEVEN ISLANDS TO ESQUIMAUX POINT ” Backward and forward, along the shore Of lorn and desolate Labrador And found at last her way To the Seven Islands Bay.” — textit{li’hittirr /”N most maps the name Labrador is attached only to the narrow strip under the jurisdiction of Newfoundland on the Atlantic coast, yet it belongs in reality to the entire peninsula which begins at the Gulf of St. Lawrence at the point where the soth parallel strikes the coast. A line drawn from this point to the southern extremity of Hudson Bay, or rather of its offshoot, James Bay, separates the great peninsula from the rest of Canada. This westernmost point of the Labrador coast in the Gulf of St. Lawrence is about thirty miles to the west of Seven Islands, and about three hundred and fifty east of Quebec. As we approached the Labrador coast, after INDIAN MOTHER AND TEN DAYS OLD INFANT. THE TOWN OF SEVEN ISLANDS. an interesting sail down the mighty St. Lawrence from Quebec, we could see in the clear morning air the precipitous mountains of Gaspe sixty miles to the south, in places white with snow and brilliantly illuminated by the morning sun, but dark in the shadows of the deep ravines. The whole southern coast of Labrador is notable for its rivers which empty their floods, swelled in the spring by the melting snows, into the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The first of these is the St. Marguerite River, which, like nearly all these rivers, cuts through sand bluffs and is partly blocked by a bar extending part way across the mouth from the east. The town of about a dozen houses is perched on the western bank with a setting of dark spruce forest. The bay of Seven Islands is of great beauty and forms a nearly circular basin some four miles in diameter, and almost completely landlocked. Seve… |
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A Labrador Spring $21.24 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.Excerpt from book:Section 3CHAPTER II FROM SEVEN ISLANDS TO ESQUIMAUX POINT ” Backward and forward, along the shore Of lorn and desolate Labrador And found at last her way To the Seven Islands Bay.” — textit{li’hittirr /”N most maps the name Labrador is attached only to the narrow strip under the jurisdiction of Newfoundland on the Atlantic coast, yet it belongs in reality to the entire peninsula which begins at the Gulf of St. Lawrence at the point where the soth parallel strikes the coast. A line drawn from this point to the southern extremity of Hudson Bay, or rather of its offshoot, James Bay, separates the great peninsula from the rest of Canada. This westernmost point of the Labrador coast in the Gulf of St. Lawrence is about thirty miles to the west of Seven Islands, and about three hundred and fifty east of Quebec. As we approached the Labrador coast, after INDIAN MOTHER AND TEN DAYS OLD INFANT. THE TOWN OF SEVEN ISLANDS. an interesting sail down the mighty St. Lawrence from Quebec, we could see in the clear morning air the precipitous mountains of Gaspe sixty miles to the south, in places white with snow and brilliantly illuminated by the morning sun, but dark in the shadows of the deep ravines. The whole southern coast of Labrador is notable for its rivers which empty their floods, swelled in the spring by the melting snows, into the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The first of these is the St. Marguerite River, which, like nearly all these rivers, cuts through sand bluffs and is partly blocked by a bar extending part way across the mouth from the east. The town of about a dozen houses is perched on the western bank with a setting of dark spruce forest. The bay of Seven Islands is of great beauty and forms a nearly circular basin some four miles in diameter, and almost completely landlocked. Seve… |
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A Silent Terror (Love Inspired Suspense Series) $1.99 When Marianna Santino’s roommate is killed, Detective Ethan O’Hara can’t fathom the motive. Then he realizes the deaf teacher was the intended target. Marianna must have something the murderer desperately wants. But what? Digging for the truth, the guarded cop tries to learn everything he can about Marianna. Her world. Her family. Her beauty, faith and fierce independence. In spite of himself, Ethan finds that he can’t keep his feelings at bay. Soon, he’s willing to risk everything–including his heart–to lay the silent terror stalking Marianna to rest. |
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A Transition to Abstract Mathematics: Learning Mathematical Thinking and Writing $89.95 Constructing concise and correct proofs is one of the most challenging aspects of learning to work with advanced mathematics. Meeting this challenge is a defining moment for those considering a career in mathematics or related fields. Mathematical Thinking and Writing teaches readers to construct proofs and communicate with the precision necessary for working with abstraction. It is based on two premises: composing clear and accurate mathematical arguments is critical in abstract mathematics, and that this skill requires development and support. Abstraction is the destination, not the starting point.Maddox methodically builds toward a thorough understanding of the proof process, demonstrating and encouraging mathematical thinking along the way. Skillful use of analogy clarifies abstract ideas. Clearly presented methods of mathematical precision provide an understanding of the nature of mathematics and its defining structure. After mastering the art of the proof process, the reader may pursue two independent paths. The latter parts are purposefully designed to rest on the foundation of the first, and climb quickly into analysis or algebra. Maddox addresses fundamental principles in these two areas, so that readers can apply their mathematical thinking and writing skills to these new concepts. From this exposure, readers experience the beauty of the mathematical landscape and further develop their ability to work with abstract ideas.• Covers the full range of techniques used in proofs, including contrapositive, induction, and proof by contradiction• Explains identification of techniques and how they are applied in the specific problem• Illustrates how to read written proofs with many step by step examples• Includes 20% more exercises than the first edition that are integrated into the material instead of end of chapter• The Instructors Guide and Solutions Manual points out which exercises simply must be either |
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A Transition to Abstract Mathematics: Learning Mathematical Thinking and Writing $89.95 Constructing concise and correct proofs is one of the most challenging aspects of learning to work with advanced mathematics. Meeting this challenge is a defining moment for those considering a career in mathematics or related fields. Mathematical Thinking and Writing teaches readers to construct proofs and communicate with the precision necessary for working with abstraction. It is based on two premises: composing clear and accurate mathematical arguments is critical in abstract mathematics, and that this skill requires development and support. Abstraction is the destination, not the starting point.Maddox methodically builds toward a thorough understanding of the proof process, demonstrating and encouraging mathematical thinking along the way. Skillful use of analogy clarifies abstract ideas. Clearly presented methods of mathematical precision provide an understanding of the nature of mathematics and its defining structure. After mastering the art of the proof process, the reader may pursue two independent paths. The latter parts are purposefully designed to rest on the foundation of the first, and climb quickly into analysis or algebra. Maddox addresses fundamental principles in these two areas, so that readers can apply their mathematical thinking and writing skills to these new concepts. From this exposure, readers experience the beauty of the mathematical landscape and further develop their ability to work with abstract ideas.• Covers the full range of techniques used in proofs, including contrapositive, induction, and proof by contradiction• Explains identification of techniques and how they are applied in the specific problem• Illustrates how to read written proofs with many step by step examples• Includes 20% more exercises than the first edition that are integrated into the material instead of end of chapter• The Instructors Guide and Solutions Manual points out which exercises simply must be either |
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Abby’s Song $16.7 “Yes, but later, when they speak of her, what do they say?” I asked.”Oh hell, I don’t know. I just fill the glasses. Man, this is the kind of talk that makes a barkeep like me goofy. Mostly, I keep the customers on the other side of the counter, but she, she can’t be stopped – comes over the top and just rips your spleen.”"Fill the glasses. Mop the bar. You probably know, they’re closing this place next month, and I’m out of work with no prospects, because the urban renewal wrecking ball is knocking down, not just this joint, but the whole Avenue, and, and all I’m doing is worrying what’s going to happen to Abby, but damn it, I can’t help it, this place connect her to Whitey, and all the rest of us to her.”"Ahhh . . . ” He let out a deep sigh, and then leaned over the bar and used his big whisper. “Ah, but this woman did it all . . . And so they . . . They tell of the things she did for Whitey. They tell of her exploits, of her saving his life, and her avenging his death – of her thrusting that heavy auger. And they make up things, sensitive, personal things – lavender baths, rose petal pillows – things no one could possibly know, but we all listen and nod our approval. And now the wrecking ball is coming. And now they ask what will happen . . . “”Look, that’s her, she comes now. Just look at her. My, oh my,” he slowly shakes his head. “Ah, I’ll tell you what they, they . . . they tell of her honor, grace, and beauty. See how she moves, how she takes that stool.” He stood to his full height and hurried down the counter to pour her drinks. I sipped mine, listening, waiting . . . . |
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Abby’s Song $29.82 “Yes, but later, when they speak of her, what do they say?” I asked.”Oh hell, I don’t know. I just fill the glasses. Man, this is the kind of talk that makes a barkeep like me goofy. Mostly, I keep the customers on the other side of the counter, but she, she can’t be stopped – comes over the top and just rips your spleen.”"Fill the glasses. Mop the bar. You probably know, they’re closing this place next month, and I’m out of work with no prospects, because the urban renewal wrecking ball is knocking down, not just this joint, but the whole Avenue, and, and all I’m doing is worrying what’s going to happen to Abby, but damn it, I can’t help it, this place connect her to Whitey, and all the rest of us to her.”"Ahhh . . . ” He let out a deep sigh, and then leaned over the bar and used his big whisper. “Ah, but this woman did it all . . . And so they . . . They tell of the things she did for Whitey. They tell of her exploits, of her saving his life, and her avenging his death – of her thrusting that heavy auger. And they make up things, sensitive, personal things – lavender baths, rose petal pillows – things no one could possibly know, but we all listen and nod our approval. And now the wrecking ball is coming. And now they ask what will happen . . . “”Look, that’s her, she comes now. Just look at her. My, oh my,” he slowly shakes his head. “Ah, I’ll tell you what they, they . . . they tell of her honor, grace, and beauty. See how she moves, how she takes that stool.” He stood to his full height and hurried down the counter to pour her drinks. I sipped mine, listening, waiting . . . . |
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Abby’s Song $9.99 “Yes, but later, when they speak of her, what do they say?” I asked.”Oh hell, I don’t know. I just fill the glasses. Man, this is the kind of talk that makes a barkeep like me goofy. Mostly, I keep the customers on the other side of the counter, but she, she can’t be stopped – comes over the top and just rips your spleen.”"Fill the glasses. Mop the bar. You probably know, they’re closing this place next month, and I’m out of work with no prospects, because the urban renewal wrecking ball is knocking down, not just this joint, but the whole Avenue, and, and all I’m doing is worrying what’s going to happen to Abby, but damn it, I can’t help it, this place connect her to Whitey, and all the rest of us to her.”"Ahhh . . . ” He let out a deep sigh, and then leaned over the bar and used his big whisper. “Ah, but this woman did it all . . . And so they . . . They tell of the things she did for Whitey. They tell of her exploits, of her saving his life, and her avenging his death – of her thrusting that heavy auger. And they make up things, sensitive, personal things – lavender baths, rose petal pillows – things no one could possibly know, but we all listen and nod our approval. And now the wrecking ball is coming. And now they ask what will happen . . . “”Look, that’s her, she comes now. Just look at her. My, oh my,” he slowly shakes his head. “Ah, I’ll tell you what they, they . . . they tell of her honor, grace, and beauty. See how she moves, how she takes that stool.” He stood to his full height and hurried down the counter to pour her drinks. I sipped mine, listening, waiting . . . . |
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Ageesteem: Growing a Postive Attitude Toward Aging $15.79 A great elixir to feel happy and healthy is to live your age with passion and purpose. The beauty and excitement for life that we associate with youth exudes from within. This same zest for living also keeps the rest of us attractive and dynamic. It’s not a question of age but of age-esteem. How we feel about ourselves in relation to our age governs our well being. Living with passion and purpose promotes both quality and longevity. Bonnie Fatio provokes a positive image of age being synonymous with confidence and self-esteem. Threading inspirational real life vignettes, examples of people who model age-esteem, humor and facts she shares the Secrets of AgeEsteem and challenges you to take action. |
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Alma Mater $0.99 Sex makes monkeys out of all of us. If you don’t give in to it, you wind up a cold, unfeeling bastard. If you do, you spend the rest of your life picking up the pieces. . . .At the start of senior year at William & Mary, the six-foot-tall, raven-haired beauty Victoria “Vic” Savedge finds her future mapped out in detail. She will marry Charly Harrison, the son of one of Virginia’s most prominent families. Though branded by a fiery streak of independence, Vic hasn’t really considered any other options. Until she meets a woman named Chris. A transfer from Vermont, Chris is new to Southern mores and attitudes. Though instantly captivated by Vic, she is also drawn to the entire quirky but charming Savedge family. But the young women’s friendship is not your basic college-girl variety. For neither can resist their mutual attraction–an attraction that erupts into a passion that will forever change the course of both their lives.Author Biography: Rita Mae Brown is the bestselling author of Rubyfruit Jungle, In Her Day, Six of One, Southern Discomfort, Sudden Death, High Hearts, Bingo, Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writer’s Manual, Venus Envy, Dolley: A Novel of Dolley Madison in Love and War, Riding Shotgun, Loose Lips, Outfoxed, and a memoir, Rita Will. With her tiger cat, Sneaky Pie, she also collaborates on the New York Times bestselling Mrs. Murphy mystery series, including Claws and Effect. An Emmy-nominated screenwriter and a poet, she lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.From the Hardcover edition. |
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An Architecture $8.87 Poetry. “In AN ARCHITECTURE, Chad Sweeney reveals himself to be a Frank Gehry of language: making an overwhelming but coherent form in precise words that measure ‘the violet gleam of girders,’ where ‘art is/the ghost between us.’ The world swells with meaning before things ’smolder,’ ‘collapse,’ ‘drown…. And within the violent changes that he so precisely records, there are moments of rest and deep regard for what is passing. The poem is an elegy for the world in all its beauty and disturbing variety”–Maxine Chernoff. “Chad Sweeney’s AN ARCHITECTURE, with its epigraph from Heraklitus (the philosopher of fiery flux), looks like a house that can’t stand still, its 56 sections shape-shifting through spaces of meaning that are ‘excavated / rather than built.’ Among these magical passages, ‘the nouns are verbs / the conduit between I and I.’ Here, house and inhabitant (as form and content) perpetually exchange their positions, showing ‘the snake / swallowing // peristalsis of / the world // by which these rooms // are constituted.’ In Sweeney’s swift architecture, memory assumes the power of imagination, and language becomes a platform for the mind’s multiplicity: ‘I speak, therefore I are.’ Sweeney, as Vitruvius before him, makes architecture the sister-discipline of music”–Andrew Joron. |
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An Erring Woman’s Love $16.13 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:WHEN BABY SOULS SAIL OUT. When from our mortal vision Grown men and women go, To sail strange fields Elysian And know what spirits know, I think of them as tourists, In some sun-gilded clime, ‘Mong happy sights and dear delights We all shall find, in time. But when a child goes yonder And leaves its mother here, Its little feet must wander, It seems to me, in fear. What paths of Eden beauty What scenes of peace and rest Can bring content to one who went Forth from a mother’s breast. 40 When Baby Souls Sail Out. In palace gardens, lonely, A little child will roam, And weep for pleasures only Found in its humble home— It is not won by splendor, Nor bought by costly toys, To hide from harm on mother’s arm Makes all its sum of joys. It must be when the baby Goes journeying off alone, Some angel (Mary may be), Adopts it for her own. Yet when a child is taken Whose mother stays below With weeping eyes, through Paradises I seem to see it go. With troops of angels trying To drive away its fear, I seem to hear it crying When Baby Souls Sail Out. 41 ” I want my mamma here.” I do not court the fancy, It is not based on doubt, It is a thought that comes unsought When baby souls sail out. AN ODE TO TIME. Ho! sportsman ‘lime, whose chargers fleet The moments, madly driven, Beat in the dust beneath their feet Sweet hopes that years have given ; Turn, turn aside those reckless steeds, Oh ! do not urge them my way; There’s nothing that Time wants or needs In this contented by-way. You have down-trodden,in your race, So much that proves your power, Why not avoid my humble place, Why rob me of my dower ? With your vast cellars, cavern deep, Packed tier on tier with treasures, You would not miss … |
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An Erring Woman’s Love $26.66 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:WHEN BABY SOULS SAIL OUT. When from our mortal vision Grown men and women go, To sail strange fields Elysian And know what spirits know, I think of them as tourists, In some sun-gilded clime, ‘Mong happy sights and dear delights We all shall find, in time. But when a child goes yonder And leaves its mother here, Its little feet must wander, It seems to me, in fear. What paths of Eden beauty What scenes of peace and rest Can bring content to one who went Forth from a mother’s breast. 40 When Baby Souls Sail Out. In palace gardens, lonely, A little child will roam, And weep for pleasures only Found in its humble home— It is not won by splendor, Nor bought by costly toys, To hide from harm on mother’s arm Makes all its sum of joys. It must be when the baby Goes journeying off alone, Some angel (Mary may be), Adopts it for her own. Yet when a child is taken Whose mother stays below With weeping eyes, through Paradises I seem to see it go. With troops of angels trying To drive away its fear, I seem to hear it crying When Baby Souls Sail Out. 41 ” I want my mamma here.” I do not court the fancy, It is not based on doubt, It is a thought that comes unsought When baby souls sail out. AN ODE TO TIME. Ho! sportsman ‘lime, whose chargers fleet The moments, madly driven, Beat in the dust beneath their feet Sweet hopes that years have given ; Turn, turn aside those reckless steeds, Oh ! do not urge them my way; There’s nothing that Time wants or needs In this contented by-way. You have down-trodden,in your race, So much that proves your power, Why not avoid my humble place, Why rob me of my dower ? With your vast cellars, cavern deep, Packed tier on tier with treasures, You would not miss … |
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An Erring Woman’s Love $14.53 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:WHEN BABY SOULS SAIL OUT. When from our mortal vision Grown men and women go, To sail strange fields Elysian And know what spirits know, I think of them as tourists, In some sun-gilded clime, ‘Mong happy sights and dear delights We all shall find, in time. But when a child goes yonder And leaves its mother here, Its little feet must wander, It seems to me, in fear. What paths of Eden beauty What scenes of peace and rest Can bring content to one who went Forth from a mother’s breast. 40 When Baby Souls Sail Out. In palace gardens, lonely, A little child will roam, And weep for pleasures only Found in its humble home— It is not won by splendor, Nor bought by costly toys, To hide from harm on mother’s arm Makes all its sum of joys. It must be when the baby Goes journeying off alone, Some angel (Mary may be), Adopts it for her own. Yet when a child is taken Whose mother stays below With weeping eyes, through Paradises I seem to see it go. With troops of angels trying To drive away its fear, I seem to hear it crying When Baby Souls Sail Out. 41 ” I want my mamma here.” I do not court the fancy, It is not based on doubt, It is a thought that comes unsought When baby souls sail out. AN ODE TO TIME. Ho! sportsman ‘lime, whose chargers fleet The moments, madly driven, Beat in the dust beneath their feet Sweet hopes that years have given ; Turn, turn aside those reckless steeds, Oh ! do not urge them my way; There’s nothing that Time wants or needs In this contented by-way. You have down-trodden,in your race, So much that proves your power, Why not avoid my humble place, Why rob me of my dower ? With your vast cellars, cavern deep, Packed tier on tier with treasures, You would not miss … |
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An Introduction To The Survey Of Western Palestine $34.86 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:Jebel Adather (alt. 3,300 feet) which divides the first class basins of Wady el Ezziyeh and Wady el Kurn. From the foot of Jebel Adather, the waterparting runs with second class basins, beginning with the important Wady Kerkera; north of which it meets a series of small basins confined in a triangular space between the lower part of Wady el Ezziyeh and the mountain range of Jebel el Mushakkah, so well known by its termination on the coast in Eas en Nakurah. This group of minor basins has undergone much rectification from the Palestine Exploration Survey. The largest of them are Wady Shemd, and Wady ez Zerka, the latter rising in the mountain of Kh. Belat (alt. 2,467 feet), from which is a panoramic prospect of great extent and beauty. The Tell Belat (alt. 2,020 feet), is a distinct summit to the south in the midst of the Wady Kerkera basin. Among the dubious questions set at rest by the Palestine Exploration Survey, none is more striking than the topography of the Ezziyeh basin. Eobinson’s map throws but little light upon it. Van de Velde’s map and the ” Holy Land ” edited by Dr. George Grove for Dr. William Smith’s Ancient Atlas, are remarkable approximations to the truth. But the latest map in Mons. V. Guerin’s elaborate ” Description de la Galilee ” erroneously throws the whole of the southern part of the upper Ezziyeh basin from Kh. Shelabun (Guerin’s Kh. Cha’laboun) to Kh. el Kurah (Guerin’s Kh. Koura) into the Kerkera basin. So also does Lieutenant Van de Velde. The Basin Of WadyKerkera. Although this basin is only of the second class, being divided from that of the Jordan by the southern part of the upper plateau of the Ezziyeh, it is of some extent and not devoid of natural features. These however seem to have escaped the travellers who have visited this region, |
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An Introduction To The Survey Of Western Palestine $18.08 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:Jebel Adather (alt. 3,300 feet) which divides the first class basins of Wady el Ezziyeh and Wady el Kurn. From the foot of Jebel Adather, the waterparting runs with second class basins, beginning with the important Wady Kerkera; north of which it meets a series of small basins confined in a triangular space between the lower part of Wady el Ezziyeh and the mountain range of Jebel el Mushakkah, so well known by its termination on the coast in Eas en Nakurah. This group of minor basins has undergone much rectification from the Palestine Exploration Survey. The largest of them are Wady Shemd, and Wady ez Zerka, the latter rising in the mountain of Kh. Belat (alt. 2,467 feet), from which is a panoramic prospect of great extent and beauty. The Tell Belat (alt. 2,020 feet), is a distinct summit to the south in the midst of the Wady Kerkera basin. Among the dubious questions set at rest by the Palestine Exploration Survey, none is more striking than the topography of the Ezziyeh basin. Eobinson’s map throws but little light upon it. Van de Velde’s map and the ” Holy Land ” edited by Dr. George Grove for Dr. William Smith’s Ancient Atlas, are remarkable approximations to the truth. But the latest map in Mons. V. Guerin’s elaborate ” Description de la Galilee ” erroneously throws the whole of the southern part of the upper Ezziyeh basin from Kh. Shelabun (Guerin’s Kh. Cha’laboun) to Kh. el Kurah (Guerin’s Kh. Koura) into the Kerkera basin. So also does Lieutenant Van de Velde. The Basin Of WadyKerkera. Although this basin is only of the second class, being divided from that of the Jordan by the southern part of the upper plateau of the Ezziyeh, it is of some extent and not devoid of natural features. These however seem to have escaped the travellers who have visited this region, |
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An Introduction To The Survey Of Western Palestine; Its Waterways, Plains & Highlands $15.16 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:Jebel Adather (alt. 3,300 feet) which divides the first class basins of Wady el Ezziyeh and Wady el Kurn. From the foot of Jebel Adather, the waterparting runs with second class basins, beginning with the important Wady Kerkera; north of which it meets a series of small basins confined in a triangular space between the lower part of Wady el Ezziyeh and the mountain range of Jebel el Mushakkah, so well known by its termination on the coast in Eas en Nakurah. This group of minor basins has undergone much rectification from the Palestine Exploration Survey. The largest of them are Wady Shemd, and Wady ez Zerka, the latter rising in the mountain of Kh. Belat (alt. 2,467 feet), from which is a panoramic prospect of great extent and beauty. The Tell Belat (alt. 2,020 feet), is a distinct summit to the south in the midst of the Wady Kerkera basin. Among the dubious questions set at rest by the Palestine Exploration Survey, none is more striking than the topography of the Ezziyeh basin. Eobinson’s map throws but little light upon it. Van de Velde’s map and the ” Holy Land ” edited by Dr. George Grove for Dr. William Smith’s Ancient Atlas, are remarkable approximations to the truth. But the latest map in Mons. V. Guerin’s elaborate ” Description de la Galilee ” erroneously throws the whole of the southern part of the upper Ezziyeh basin from Kh. Shelabun (Guerin’s Kh. Cha’laboun) to Kh. el Kurah (Guerin’s Kh. Koura) into the Kerkera basin. So also does Lieutenant Van de Velde. The Basin Of WadyKerkera. Although this basin is only of the second class, being divided from that of the Jordan by the southern part of the upper plateau of the Ezziyeh, it is of some extent and not devoid of natural features. These however seem to have escaped the travellers who have visited this region, |
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Anchors Of The Soul $25.85 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:II. THE GATE BEAUTIFUL. ‘ At the Gate of the Temple which is called Beautiful’ (Ads in. 2.) King Herod did a more significant thing than he knew, when, in rebuilding the old Jewish Temple, he adorned one of its approaches with such lavish ornamentation that it got the name of the ‘ Gate Beautiful.’ He had no high meaning in it. It was little he cared either for God or Temple. All he thought of was of gratifying the love of show which his Roman education had grafted on his half Bedouin nature. What the Jews thought of it does not appear. Probably the stricter Jews frowned upon it just as the old school believers frowned, when the modern descendants of the Puritans first began to replace the homely meeting-house by the Gothic church. Perhaps, however, they consoled themselves with thinking that it was better for people to go into the Temple by a beautiful gate than not to goin at all; and they were hardly human if, in time, they did not begin to take a certain pride in the gaping admiration of foreign visitors and country pilgrims. Anyway there the porch stood, with its rows of rich Corinthian pillars, glistening with costly marbles and burnished gold. And to the dwellers in Jerusalem it was just the beautiful gate of their temple ; but to the world it has been something more. It has been a suggestive image or parable. The architectural fact has fastened men’s thought upon a spiritual fact. The great temple of the universe has a ‘ gate beautiful.’ Beauty is one of the things which open from the visible phenomena of nature to a higher meaning which is invisible. The beautiful is one of the doorways to the higher life. It offers the mind refreshment and rest; it invites the heart to worship; and it leads in to the holy of holies of Communion with God. It is this larger, m |
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Anchors Of The Soul $20.49 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:II. THE GATE BEAUTIFUL. ‘ At the Gate of the Temple which is called Beautiful’ (Ads in. 2.) King Herod did a more significant thing than he knew, when, in rebuilding the old Jewish Temple, he adorned one of its approaches with such lavish ornamentation that it got the name of the ‘ Gate Beautiful.’ He had no high meaning in it. It was little he cared either for God or Temple. All he thought of was of gratifying the love of show which his Roman education had grafted on his half Bedouin nature. What the Jews thought of it does not appear. Probably the stricter Jews frowned upon it just as the old school believers frowned, when the modern descendants of the Puritans first began to replace the homely meeting-house by the Gothic church. Perhaps, however, they consoled themselves with thinking that it was better for people to go into the Temple by a beautiful gate than not to goin at all; and they were hardly human if, in time, they did not begin to take a certain pride in the gaping admiration of foreign visitors and country pilgrims. Anyway there the porch stood, with its rows of rich Corinthian pillars, glistening with costly marbles and burnished gold. And to the dwellers in Jerusalem it was just the beautiful gate of their temple ; but to the world it has been something more. It has been a suggestive image or parable. The architectural fact has fastened men’s thought upon a spiritual fact. The great temple of the universe has a ‘ gate beautiful.’ Beauty is one of the things which open from the visible phenomena of nature to a higher meaning which is invisible. The beautiful is one of the doorways to the higher life. It offers the mind refreshment and rest; it invites the heart to worship; and it leads in to the holy of holies of Communion with God. It is this larger, m |
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Anchors Of The Soul $18.76 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:II. THE GATE BEAUTIFUL. ‘ At the Gate of the Temple which is called Beautiful’ (Ads in. 2.) King Herod did a more significant thing than he knew, when, in rebuilding the old Jewish Temple, he adorned one of its approaches with such lavish ornamentation that it got the name of the ‘ Gate Beautiful.’ He had no high meaning in it. It was little he cared either for God or Temple. All he thought of was of gratifying the love of show which his Roman education had grafted on his half Bedouin nature. What the Jews thought of it does not appear. Probably the stricter Jews frowned upon it just as the old school believers frowned, when the modern descendants of the Puritans first began to replace the homely meeting-house by the Gothic church. Perhaps, however, they consoled themselves with thinking that it was better for people to go into the Temple by a beautiful gate than not to goin at all; and they were hardly human if, in time, they did not begin to take a certain pride in the gaping admiration of foreign visitors and country pilgrims. Anyway there the porch stood, with its rows of rich Corinthian pillars, glistening with costly marbles and burnished gold. And to the dwellers in Jerusalem it was just the beautiful gate of their temple ; but to the world it has been something more. It has been a suggestive image or parable. The architectural fact has fastened men’s thought upon a spiritual fact. The great temple of the universe has a ‘ gate beautiful.’ Beauty is one of the things which open from the visible phenomena of nature to a higher meaning which is invisible. The beautiful is one of the doorways to the higher life. It offers the mind refreshment and rest; it invites the heart to worship; and it leads in to the holy of holies of Communion with God. It is this larger, m |
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Art $22.87 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:their sense of beauty;—the fooling that a child has in : dark room, or a .sick person in seeing ugly dreams. But the Greeks never have ugly dreams. They cannot draw anything ugly when they try. Sometimes they put themselves to their wits’-end to draw an ugly thing—the Medusa’s head, for instance-—but they can’t do it — not they — because nothing frightens them. They widen the mouth, and grind the teeth, and puff the checks, and set the eyes a-goggling; and the thing is only ridiculous after all, not the least dreadful, for there is no dread in their hearts. Pen- siveness; amazement; often deepest grief and deso- lateness. All these; but terror never. Everlasting calm in the presence of all fate; and joy such as they could win, not indeed in a perfect beauty, but beauty at perfect rest.—AtJiena, pp. 124-128. The Greek, Or Classic, And The Romantic Styles. —Without entering into any of the fine distinctions between these two sects, this broad one is to be observed as constant: that the writers and painters of the Classic school set down nothing but what is known to be true, and set it down in the perfectest manner possible in their way, and are thenceforward authorities from whom there is no appeal. Romantic writers and painters, on the contrary, express themselves under the impulse of passions which may indeed lead them to the discovery of new truths, or to the more delightful arrangement or presentment of things already known: but their work, however brilliant or lovely, remains imperfect, and without authority.— Val D’Arno, p. ‘.). ART AND MAN IN THE MIDDLE AGES. A degree of personal beauty, both male and female, was attained in the Middle Ages, with which classical periods could show nothing for a moment comparable; and |
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Art: Its Laws, and the Reason for Them: Collected, Considered and Arranged $30.87 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:gathered from a subdivision of it, are perfect examples of particular beauty, the beauty of a class. In his admirable lectures on art, Sir Joshua Reynolds, to whom we are already much indebted, tells us that ” the Apollo and the Venus are a combination of these several sectional beauties, a union of all the excellent qualities that these singly possess, just as Achilles, whom Homer intends to make a perfect man, is a compound of all his confederates ;” or as John Milton, who, Macaulay tells us, was the greatest man of his age, ” was neither Puritan, Cavalier, Roundhead, nor of any other single party or persuasion, but made up of the noblest qualities of every party combined in harmonious union, — from the camp and the court, from the conventicle and the Gothic cloister, from the gloomy and sepulchral circles of the Roundhead and the Christmas revels of the hospitable Cavaliers, —his nature selecting and drawing to itself whatever was great and good, while it rejected all the base and pernicious ingredients by which those finer elements were defiled.” And that the Apollo and the Venus are, as Reynolds observes, a combination of all the excellent qualities that the other statues singly possess, we can readily believe, as “perfect beauty in any species must unite all the characters that are beautiful in that species. It cannot exist in one to the exclusion of the rest; no one, either, must be predominant, that no one may be deficient;” for wherever, as already shown, one quality — as of activity in the Mercury and Diana, and intellectuality in the Minerva — becomes so predominant as to merge or shut out the rest, it renders such representation sectional, destroys its general character, the great element of perfect beauty. This idea of Reynolds has been |
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Art; A Ruskin Anthology $26.67 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:their sense of beauty;—the fooling that a child has in : dark room, or a .sick person in seeing ugly dreams. But the Greeks never have ugly dreams. They cannot draw anything ugly when they try. Sometimes they put themselves to their wits’-end to draw an ugly thing—the Medusa’s head, for instance-—but they can’t do it — not they — because nothing frightens them. They widen the mouth, and grind the teeth, and puff the checks, and set the eyes a-goggling; and the thing is only ridiculous after all, not the least dreadful, for there is no dread in their hearts. Pen- siveness; amazement; often deepest grief and deso- lateness. All these; but terror never. Everlasting calm in the presence of all fate; and joy such as they could win, not indeed in a perfect beauty, but beauty at perfect rest.—AtJiena, pp. 124-128. The Greek, Or Classic, And The Romantic Styles. —Without entering into any of the fine distinctions between these two sects, this broad one is to be observed as constant: that the writers and painters of the Classic school set down nothing but what is known to be true, and set it down in the perfectest manner possible in their way, and are thenceforward authorities from whom there is no appeal. Romantic writers and painters, on the contrary, express themselves under the impulse of passions which may indeed lead them to the discovery of new truths, or to the more delightful arrangement or presentment of things already known: but their work, however brilliant or lovely, remains imperfect, and without authority.— Val D’Arno, p. ‘.). ART AND MAN IN THE MIDDLE AGES. A degree of personal beauty, both male and female, was attained in the Middle Ages, with which classical periods could show nothing for a moment comparable; and |
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Art; A Ruskin Anthology $14.35 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:their sense of beauty;—the fooling that a child has in : dark room, or a .sick person in seeing ugly dreams. But the Greeks never have ugly dreams. They cannot draw anything ugly when they try. Sometimes they put themselves to their wits’-end to draw an ugly thing—the Medusa’s head, for instance-—but they can’t do it — not they — because nothing frightens them. They widen the mouth, and grind the teeth, and puff the checks, and set the eyes a-goggling; and the thing is only ridiculous after all, not the least dreadful, for there is no dread in their hearts. Pen- siveness; amazement; often deepest grief and deso- lateness. All these; but terror never. Everlasting calm in the presence of all fate; and joy such as they could win, not indeed in a perfect beauty, but beauty at perfect rest.—AtJiena, pp. 124-128. The Greek, Or Classic, And The Romantic Styles. —Without entering into any of the fine distinctions between these two sects, this broad one is to be observed as constant: that the writers and painters of the Classic school set down nothing but what is known to be true, and set it down in the perfectest manner possible in their way, and are thenceforward authorities from whom there is no appeal. Romantic writers and painters, on the contrary, express themselves under the impulse of passions which may indeed lead them to the discovery of new truths, or to the more delightful arrangement or presentment of things already known: but their work, however brilliant or lovely, remains imperfect, and without authority.— Val D’Arno, p. ‘.). ART AND MAN IN THE MIDDLE AGES. A degree of personal beauty, both male and female, was attained in the Middle Ages, with which classical periods could show nothing for a moment comparable; and |
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Ashdown Forest $36 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ashdown Forest, situated 30 miles 48.3 km south of London in the county of East Sussex, England, is an area of tranquil open heathland and woodland on the highest sandy ridge-top of the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It reaches its highest altitude of 732 feet 223 m above sea level at Greenwood Gate Clump near King’s Standing and offers expansive views across the High Weald in all directions, but particularly northwards toward the Greensand Ridge and North Downs, and southwards to the chalk escarpment of the South Downs. Ashdown Forest’s origins lie in Norman times as a royal forest set aside for deer-hunting. By 1283 the forest was fenced in by a 23 miles 37.0 km pale enclosing a hunting park of 20.5 square miles 5,300 ha. Gates and hatches in the pale allowed local people to enter to graze their livestock, collect firewood and cut heather and bracken for animal bedding. In 1693 more than half the forest was taken into private hands. The rest, some 9.5 square miles 2,500 ha, remained common land that today is entirely open for public access subject to various byelaws. |
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Aspirations $22.87 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:MY TWO SONS. LINNIE AND BERTIE. 1 I ‘WO little lives my earthly life have blessed, A Two little forms have stood beside my knee, Warm baby kisses on my lips have pressed, Or on my bosom sunk to quiet rest, Or played about me in their childish glee. Like two fair lilies drooping from one stem, Two alabasters taken from one mould, The sunny hair, soft eyes, and slender frame, Each baby grace and feature still the same— But ah! what contrast does their future hold! To one is given a pledge that must remain Unchanged as heaven’s eternal, living truth, That sorrow ne’er shall wring his heart with pain, No thought of sin his guileless spirit stain, Nor death nor sickness ever blight his youth, My Two Sons. 15 But in an atmosphere all love and peace, His little life goes calmly, sweetly on, ‘Mid purest pleasures that will never cease, In grace and beauty that must still increase, When earth’s best gifts are long since past and gone. While to the other comes earth’s common fate Of pain and sickness, care and toil and woe; The sins and sorrows of our lost estate, The thousand ills that on life’s pathway wait, The aching heart earth’s happiest mortals know. O, baby-brow, illumed with heaven’s own light, Must time and sorrow plough deep furrows there? O, guileless spirit, plumed for angels’ flight, When sin’s dark hosts assail thee in their might, How wilt thou the unequal conflict bear? Yet did an angel, e’en my angel child, Come whispering in my awe-struck ear tonight, And plead that now, whilepure and undefiled, Unstained by sin nor racked with passions wild, His hand might lead thee to the realms of light,16 My Two Sons. My mother-heart, weak in its selfish love, In vain would seek for grace to let thee go; Aye, knowing all that… |
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At Home in the Heart of Appalachia $0.99 John O’Brien’s deeply evocative book re- veals a place and a way of life—and the lives of an estranged father and son whose differences rest, ironically, in their own powerful bonds to Appalachia.John O’Brien was born in Philadelphia, his father having left his beloved home in the West Virginia mountains after an impoverished childhood made all the more painful by family tragedy. Struggling to escape a father defeated by disappointment, displacement, and poverty, John too left home. When John decided to settle near his father’s birthplace in West Virginia, he hoped to comprehend the elder O’Brien’s attachment to the land, as well as the disabling fatalism he had carried north.What he discovered is hardly the mythic Appalachia most Americans imagine, but a world of extravagant beauty—lush with green mountains, deep forests, ice-cold trout streams, and small hill farms. The people we meet who inhabit this land are for the most part unpretentious, working class, straightforward, open, commonsensical, and easygoing. They tend to look back more than most Americans do, defining themselves by how they fit into an extended family that includes their ancestors. We are in a mountain culture that feels old and deeply rooted, that follows a traditional way of life. It is a world the author would finally love and call his own.We also come face-to-face with provincialism, intolerance, and—perhaps Appalachia’s defining legacy—the horrors of the coalfields and chemical plants. We see clearly what rapacious greed and exploitation have done for generations to much of the landscape and to the lives of thepeople. And we learn of the stream of reformers and missionaries, ever ready to show Appalachia the way, whose real contributions tend to be negligible or absurd.In this clear-eyed, beautifully rendered telling of his story and his father’s, John O’Brien gives us, as |
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BC Coastal Recreation Kayaking and Small Boat Atlas: British Columbia’s South Coast and East Vancouver Island $29.95 Rugged yet serene, the south and east coasts of Vancouver Island are unlike anywhere else. Wave-sculpted rocks, sea caves and fjords, old-growth forests, incredible wildlife, and white, sandy beaches make this an unbeatable destination. From a veteran kayaker and outdoors expert, who has explored the BC coastline himself, comes this must-have collection of full-colour maps, all from a paddler’s perspective. This large-book format is easier to use and stow than bulky charts and unwieldy roll-up maps. Kimantas himself remarks that his life would have been much easier had one of these been available for his own kayak trips!The features and attractions included in these maps are numerous. You’ll see all the campsites, rest areas, launch sites, anchorages, private marinas, government wharves, ferry terminals, and lighthouses, as well as the possible hazards of each area. Also included are the key places to see killer whales, grizzlies, sea lions, and birds and to explore—heritage sites, ruins, sunken ships, trails, and parks. Colour photographs right on the maps provide visual clues and added beauty. |
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Bangalors $15.53 Caalin Matthew has the knack of getting into trouble and his extraordinary abilities seem to make it even easier to do so. Trouble is what gets him shipped off to Bolderon Academy, a semi-military school. En route to Bolderon he meets the rest of his soon-to-be misfit squad. Angiliana Avora, Ang for short, is a winged beauty who is just as smart as she is beautiful. Mortomous (Mouse) Valtor, Ang’s wingless cousin and best friend, is a wiz with electronics. Ssamuel and Ssophia Ssallazz, the twins, beneath their green complexion have secrets of their own. They are the Alpha Squad. Their squad logo is the Bangalor Dragon and they are headed for adventure and dragging the rest of the freshman class with them. You will laugh, cry and will not want to put this book down. So join them in the adventure of their lifetime. |
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Bankhead Family $9.34 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Tallulah Brockman Bankhead (January 31, 1902 December 12, 1968) was an American actress, talk-show host, and bon vivant. Bankhead was born in Huntsville, Alabama to William Brockman Bankhead and Adelaide Eugenia Bankhead (née Sledge). She was named after her paternal grandmother. Her mother died as a result of blood poisoning on February 23, 1902, shortly after Bankhead’s birth. Bankhead has been described as “an extremely homely child”, overweight and with a deep, husky voice resulting from chronic bronchitis. However, others described her as an exhibitionist, performer, personality, and star from the very beginning. Bankhead came from the powerful Bankhead and Brockman political family, active in the Democratic Party in the South in general and Alabama in particular. Her father was the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1936-1940 (in the 74th, 75th, and 76th Congresses), immediately preceding Sam Rayburn. She was the niece of Senator John H. Bankhead II and granddaughter of Senator John H. Bankhead. Bankhead herself was a Democrat, albeit one of a more liberal stripe than the rest of her family. Her older sister, Evelyn Eugenia (b. January 24, 1901 – died 1979) was known as “Sister”. Tallulah’s family sent her to various schools in a vain attempt to keep her out of trouble, which included several years at a Roman Catholic convent school (although her father was a Methodist and her mother an Episcopalian). At 15, Bankhead won a movie-magazine beauty contest and convinced her family to let her move to New York. She quickly won bit parts, first appearing in a non-speaking role in The Squab Farm. During these early New York years, she became a peripheral member of the Algonquin Round Table and known as a hard-partying gi… More: |
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Barbara’s Journey $3.99 Barbara’s Journey tells the story of fembot Barbara, who finds out that beauty alone provides no job security for a fembot. And when that fails her, she’ll have to figure out for herself how to make a real relationship work in her favor with a smitten young man if she doesn’t want to spend the rest of her existence relegated to the role of menial servant serving tacos to college kids on spring break in Mexico. |
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Beauty And The Beast: Belle’s Magical World DVD (Full Frame; Dubbed) $24.95 Full Frame; Dubbed – Belle, the Beast, Lumiere, Cogsworth, and the rest of the castle residents use their imagination to enjoy three magical adventures while sharing a storybook. An anthology “sequ… |
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Bedroom Eyes $0.99 Bedroom Eyes Sometimes chance brings us together with the people who’ll come to mean most to us in the strangest ways. Like the way it brought together Liana Banner and Nate Harden: She was an interior designer from New York, come home to her family’s suburban farmhouse for the summer to rest, recuperate, and recover. A few weeks of home-cooked meals, sun-drenched afternoons, and dips in the local pond would cure the ills that ailed her. The pond was on the neighbors’ property, of course. Liana had known the old owner before he’d passed away – and all she knew about the new owner that that the land had been bought by a real estate investment trust. She didn’t know the new owner was in town; she never would have guessed that sort of a tycoon would actually live on a rural investment property. Liana never would have dreamed his turquoise eyes watched her as she slipped sky-clad into the pond.* Nate Harden didn’t know what to make of the trespasser skinny-dipping in his pond. With her silvery blond hair and sapphire eyes, she reminded him of a fairy nymph, a creature of legendary beauty. But when Liana Banner emerged from the water, there was no hiding the fact that she was a woman – proud, lovely, and defiant. And in that moment, he knew that he had to make her his own. Fate and love are strange that way; and when they snare us, stranger still. |
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Bliss Whisper $15.95 Experience the Magic of Shell BlissImagine a brief encounter with a scorching hot man, where you realize he is the one you want to spend the rest of your life with. You wake the next day with only a vague remembrance of the previous evening, but the man’s essence burns within your soul, and your body aches to find him. This is the story of Karen Kole-looking for answers on Shell Bliss, a magical, enchanting island-and Jon Waters, the man who has been waiting his whole life for her. Bliss Whisper is a novel infused with island beauty-a richly woven tale of forbidden love and long-held family secrets. |
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Bloody Nails Guilty Hands $25.37 Bloody Nails Guilty Hands is the second book in a collection of heartfelt, poetry, and parables series. Join a family as they pray through life’s tragedies, and see how God answers prayers. Find rest from life’s thrashing ways. Experience horror in the first and last of end days. Then strap yourself in and assume crash positions on AngelFlight 68. Come take a journey… Destination New Jerusalem. If you like field trips, come take one where the lost soul is the main course. Chase Heaven as you flee demons, and see what the devils angel looks like as he calls your name. Filled with beauty, sadness, tears, brokenness, scars, and anger. Then flooded with mercy, love, comfort, and a gentle knock from Jesus, to show us how compassionate he really is. |
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Bloody Nails Guilty Hands $9.99 Bloody Nails Guilty Hands is the second book in a collection of heartfelt, poetry, and parables series. Join a family as they pray through life’s tragedies, and see how God answers prayers. Find rest from life’s thrashing ways. Experience horror in the first and last of end days. Then strap yourself in and assume crash positions on AngelFlight 68. Come take a journey… Destination New Jerusalem. If you like field trips, come take one where the lost soul is the main course. Chase Heaven as you flee demons, and see what the devils angel looks like as he calls your name. Filled with beauty, sadness, tears, brokenness, scars, and anger. Then flooded with mercy, love, comfort, and a gentle knock from Jesus, to show us how compassionate he really is. |
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Bloody Nails Guilty Hands $14.91 Bloody Nails Guilty Hands is the second book in a collection of heartfelt, poetry, and parables series. Join a family as they pray through life’s tragedies, and see how God answers prayers. Find rest from life’s thrashing ways. Experience horror in the first and last of end days. Then strap yourself in and assume crash positions on AngelFlight 68. Come take a journey… Destination New Jerusalem. If you like field trips, come take one where the lost soul is the main course. Chase Heaven as you flee demons, and see what the devils angel looks like as he calls your name. Filled with beauty, sadness, tears, brokenness, scars, and anger. Then flooded with mercy, love, comfort, and a gentle knock from Jesus, to show us how compassionate he really is. |
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Borderline (Anna Pigeon Series #15) $29.99 On administrative leave for post-traumatic stress disorder, Anna Pigeon takes a trip to South Texas for a bit of rest and relaxation. At first, the desert beauty of Big Bend National Park and the majesty of the Rio Grande have a soothing effect, until a white-water rafting expedition goes awry and a young college student goes temporarily missing. From there, matters escalate quickly, straitjacketing Anna into a whole new round of stress and murder. |
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Borderline (Anna Pigeon Series #15) $14.25 On administrative leave for post-traumatic stress disorder, Anna Pigeon takes a trip to South Texas for a bit of rest and relaxation. At first, the desert beauty of Big Bend National Park and the majesty of the Rio Grande have a soothing effect, until a white-water rafting expedition goes awry and a young college student goes temporarily missing. From there, matters escalate quickly, straitjacketing Anna into a whole new round of stress and murder. |
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British Malaya $39.98 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:the crowd of small coasting steamers, which puff and squeal, arrive or depart, take or discharge cargo, or simply rest between two voyages. And last the outer line, where, in midstream, a few large steamers and sailing vessels strain at cables. But, There is another shore, upon the other side, the shore of Province Wellesley, distant from the nearest point of Pinang, about two miles. Far to north and far to south, an endless grove of palm trees fringes the strip of yellow sand, which is sometimes land and sometimes sea. Behind the palms are acres of rice fields, villages, hamlets, and isolated huts ; then low hills, forest, and higher hills ; range upon range in ever rising steps, till the eye loses count in heat waves, mist, and distance. Nearly due north, a little inland, and distant about thirty-five miles, stands the sharp peak of Gunong Jerai, five thousand feet high. Almost in a line with this mountain, some hazily-blue islands seem to swim on the surface of the sea. Looking south, the coast line of Pinang curves, crescent-wise, to its extreme point, and in the land-locked space of water are islands, large and small, clad like the rest in green. What is called the South Channel is not often used now except by coasting steamers, but the approach to Pinang is even more attractive by this route than by the North Channel. The beauty of the place comes more gradually, sinks deeper into the appreciation, and leaves a picture of form and colour, a sensation of real warmth and real life, which only the East can offer. This feeling will be intensified if the traveller is fortunate enough to see what I have tried to describe under the glamour of a moonlit night. Yet the pride of Pinang is the Hill, and those who reach the summit will not regret the effort. Looking westward, |
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British Malaya $42.98 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:the crowd of small coasting steamers, which puff and squeal, arrive or depart, take or discharge cargo, or simply rest between two voyages. And last the outer line, where, in midstream, a few large steamers and sailing vessels strain at cables. But, There is another shore, upon the other side, the shore of Province Wellesley, distant from the nearest point of Pinang, about two miles. Far to north and far to south, an endless grove of palm trees fringes the strip of yellow sand, which is sometimes land and sometimes sea. Behind the palms are acres of rice fields, villages, hamlets, and isolated huts ; then low hills, forest, and higher hills ; range upon range in ever rising steps, till the eye loses count in heat waves, mist, and distance. Nearly due north, a little inland, and distant about thirty-five miles, stands the sharp peak of Gunong Jerai, five thousand feet high. Almost in a line with this mountain, some hazily-blue islands seem to swim on the surface of the sea. Looking south, the coast line of Pinang curves, crescent-wise, to its extreme point, and in the land-locked space of water are islands, large and small, clad like the rest in green. What is called the South Channel is not often used now except by coasting steamers, but the approach to Pinang is even more attractive by this route than by the North Channel. The beauty of the place comes more gradually, sinks deeper into the appreciation, and leaves a picture of form and colour, a sensation of real warmth and real life, which only the East can offer. This feeling will be intensified if the traveller is fortunate enough to see what I have tried to describe under the glamour of a moonlit night. Yet the pride of Pinang is the Hill, and those who reach the summit will not regret the effort. Looking westward, |
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British Malaya $25.61 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:the crowd of small coasting steamers, which puff and squeal, arrive or depart, take or discharge cargo, or simply rest between two voyages. And last the outer line, where, in midstream, a few large steamers and sailing vessels strain at cables. But, There is another shore, upon the other side, the shore of Province Wellesley, distant from the nearest point of Pinang, about two miles. Far to north and far to south, an endless grove of palm trees fringes the strip of yellow sand, which is sometimes land and sometimes sea. Behind the palms are acres of rice fields, villages, hamlets, and isolated huts ; then low hills, forest, and higher hills ; range upon range in ever rising steps, till the eye loses count in heat waves, mist, and distance. Nearly due north, a little inland, and distant about thirty-five miles, stands the sharp peak of Gunong Jerai, five thousand feet high. Almost in a line with this mountain, some hazily-blue islands seem to swim on the surface of the sea. Looking south, the coast line of Pinang curves, crescent-wise, to its extreme point, and in the land-locked space of water are islands, large and small, clad like the rest in green. What is called the South Channel is not often used now except by coasting steamers, but the approach to Pinang is even more attractive by this route than by the North Channel. The beauty of the place comes more gradually, sinks deeper into the appreciation, and leaves a picture of form and colour, a sensation of real warmth and real life, which only the East can offer. This feeling will be intensified if the traveller is fortunate enough to see what I have tried to describe under the glamour of a moonlit night. Yet the pride of Pinang is the Hill, and those who reach the summit will not regret the effort. Looking westward, |
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British Malaya: An Account of the Origin and Progress of British Influence in Malaya $25.62 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:the crowd of small coasting steamers, which puff and squeal, arrive or depart, take or discharge cargo, or simply rest between two voyages. And last the outer line, where, in midstream, a few large steamers and sailing vessels strain at cables. But, There is another shore, upon the other side, the shore of Province Wellesley, distant from the nearest point of Pinang, about two miles. Far to north and far to south, an endless grove of palm trees fringes the strip of yellow sand, which is sometimes land and sometimes sea. Behind the palms are acres of rice fields, villages, hamlets, and isolated huts ; then low hills, forest, and higher hills ; range upon range in ever rising steps, till the eye loses count in heat waves, mist, and distance. Nearly due north, a little inland, and distant about thirty-five miles, stands the sharp peak of Gunong Jerai, five thousand feet high. Almost in a line with this mountain, some hazily-blue islands seem to swim on the surface of the sea. Looking south, the coast line of Pinang curves, crescent-wise, to its extreme point, and in the land-locked space of water are islands, large and small, clad like the rest in green. What is called the South Channel is not often used now except by coasting steamers, but the approach to Pinang is even more attractive by this route than by the North Channel. The beauty of the place comes more gradually, sinks deeper into the appreciation, and leaves a picture of form and colour, a sensation of real warmth and real life, which only the East can offer. This feeling will be intensified if the traveller is fortunate enough to see what I have tried to describe under the glamour of a moonlit night. Yet the pride of Pinang is the Hill, and those who reach the summit will not regret the effort. Looking westward, |
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British Malaya; An Account Of The Origin And Progress Of British Influence In Malaya $22.72 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:the crowd of small coasting steamers, which puff and squeal, arrive or depart, take or discharge cargo, or simply rest between two voyages. And last the outer line, where, in midstream, a few large steamers and sailing vessels strain at cables. But, There is another shore, upon the other side, the shore of Province Wellesley, distant from the nearest point of Pinang, about two miles. Far to north and far to south, an endless grove of palm trees fringes the strip of yellow sand, which is sometimes land and sometimes sea. Behind the palms are acres of rice fields, villages, hamlets, and isolated huts ; then low hills, forest, and higher hills ; range upon range in ever rising steps, till the eye loses count in heat waves, mist, and distance. Nearly due north, a little inland, and distant about thirty-five miles, stands the sharp peak of Gunong Jerai, five thousand feet high. Almost in a line with this mountain, some hazily-blue islands seem to swim on the surface of the sea. Looking south, the coast line of Pinang curves, crescent-wise, to its extreme point, and in the land-locked space of water are islands, large and small, clad like the rest in green. What is called the South Channel is not often used now except by coasting steamers, but the approach to Pinang is even more attractive by this route than by the North Channel. The beauty of the place comes more gradually, sinks deeper into the appreciation, and leaves a picture of form and colour, a sensation of real warmth and real life, which only the East can offer. This feeling will be intensified if the traveller is fortunate enough to see what I have tried to describe under the glamour of a moonlit night. Yet the pride of Pinang is the Hill, and those who reach the summit will not regret the effort. Looking westward, |
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British Malaya; An Account Of The Origin And Progress Of British Influence In Malaya $27.64 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:the crowd of small coasting steamers, which puff and squeal, arrive or depart, take or discharge cargo, or simply rest between two voyages. And last the outer line, where, in midstream, a few large steamers and sailing vessels strain at cables. But, There is another shore, upon the other side, the shore of Province Wellesley, distant from the nearest point of Pinang, about two miles. Far to north and far to south, an endless grove of palm trees fringes the strip of yellow sand, which is sometimes land and sometimes sea. Behind the palms are acres of rice fields, villages, hamlets, and isolated huts ; then low hills, forest, and higher hills ; range upon range in ever rising steps, till the eye loses count in heat waves, mist, and distance. Nearly due north, a little inland, and distant about thirty-five miles, stands the sharp peak of Gunong Jerai, five thousand feet high. Almost in a line with this mountain, some hazily-blue islands seem to swim on the surface of the sea. Looking south, the coast line of Pinang curves, crescent-wise, to its extreme point, and in the land-locked space of water are islands, large and small, clad like the rest in green. What is called the South Channel is not often used now except by coasting steamers, but the approach to Pinang is even more attractive by this route than by the North Channel. The beauty of the place comes more gradually, sinks deeper into the appreciation, and leaves a picture of form and colour, a sensation of real warmth and real life, which only the East can offer. This feeling will be intensified if the traveller is fortunate enough to see what I have tried to describe under the glamour of a moonlit night. Yet the pride of Pinang is the Hill, and those who reach the summit will not regret the effort. Looking westward, |
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Brown’s Point $9.4 To the one-hundred-fifty-year-old house that had served the first lighthouse keeper on the turn of land called Browns Point, had come twelve people from Oregon and Washington. They were healers, people with gifts of all kinds. People who were looking for a safe place to gather, to rest a bit, share some food and talk about the work they were involved in . . . and they were being hunted. The state of Washington was on a witch-hunt again, only this time they were including healers, especially unlicensed healers. Ellie was excited to welcome her friends to her home where they would celebrate the summer solstice. They were intent on finding ways to help other healers avoid persecution, especially their friend who was awaiting the court’s decision to curtail his practice permanently or let him continue his practice unhindered. When the peaceful support of their friend turns ugly, Ellie and her friends find themselves using their individual and collective talents to bring back two of their friends from death and then use those same gifts to search out and stop a dark enemy.About the Author: J. A. Summers is a resident of the state of Washington. After a near death experience changed her life, she now walks the path of the mystic, going where she is led and loves the beauty of the Northwest. There is a pivotal point on North-bound I-90 which she particularly loves. From there you can see the snow-capped Cascade Mountains in the rearview mirror, thinning high desert pines all around, and the beginning of Eastern Washington’s deserts as they spread out ahead.. |
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Brown’s Point $21.49 To the one-hundred-fifty-year-old house that had served the first lighthouse keeper on the turn of land called Browns Point, had come twelve people from Oregon and Washington. They were healers, people with gifts of all kinds. People who were looking for a safe place to gather, to rest a bit, share some food and talk about the work they were involved in . . . and they were being hunted. The state of Washington was on a witch-hunt again, only this time they were including healers, especially unlicensed healers. Ellie was excited to welcome her friends to her home where they would celebrate the summer solstice. They were intent on finding ways to help other healers avoid persecution, especially their friend who was awaiting the court’s decision to curtail his practice permanently or let him continue his practice unhindered. When the peaceful support of their friend turns ugly, Ellie and her friends find themselves using their individual and collective talents to bring back two of their friends from death and then use those same gifts to search out and stop a dark enemy. About the Author: J. A. Summers is a resident of the state of Washington. After a near death experience changed her life, she now walks the path of the mystic, going where she is led and loves the beauty of the Northwest. There is a pivotal point on East-bound I-90 which she particularly loves. From there you can see the snow-capped Cascade Mountains in the rearview mirror, thinning high desert pines all around, and the beginning of Eastern Washington’s deserts as they spread out ahead.. |
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Cajun Cowboy $0.99 Charmaine LeDeux, who owns not one but two beauty salons on the Louisiana bayou, has a loan shark on her tail. As if that’s not bad enough, Raoul Lanier, who she thought she divorced years ago, tells her that they’re still married! Plus, they’ve inherited his father’s rundown cattle ranch together. Raoul promises to give her an honest-to-god real divorce this time if she’ll sell him her half of the ranch. But she decides that the ranch is the perfect place for her after all; i.e., the perfect hideout for a woman who needs to lie low for a while.The last thing Raoul wants is for Charmaine to live with him, but Charmaine has always been stubborn. Soon she’s taken over the house, adding feminine touches everywhere and having his three ranch hands eating out of her hand. When her belly-dancing great-aunt and the rest of the LeDeux clan come over for Thanksgiving dinner, Raoul knows he’s lost the fight. He might as well give in to the temptation she still rouses in him. Now if he can only keep her safe from the Dixie mafia looking for her and convince her that he’s worth a second chance at love. |
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Cast Away And Other Poems $9.86 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:The Manor House. 31 We on the drowsy Sunday summer morn In solemn strains awoke with trembling voice ; Glad praise to Him, the Son of Mary born, And in the holy calm of rest rejoice. Where are they all, the dear familiar faces, Who round the Christmas log in glad array, With glass on high to honor from their places That dear old soul, not long since passed away ? But my spring of life has waned, and I Am waiting now to hear the angels call My soul from hence, to join their souls on high, Where in a fairer world I’ll meet them all. OUR LOVE-BIRDS. Like, the dawn of the day in its cradle away Where the footsteps of morning glow golden, And sweet as a flower in its amorous bower Is our little one’s beauty love-folden— In beauty the baby love-folden. When in old times the dove on its errand of love, Returned with a green olive bough bearing, ‘Twasa token of spring, and the blush of a ring Was a mark from the god Hymen wearing— A ring from the god of love wearing. So the tide of life rolls and bears these sweet souls On its waves as our guerdoned heart treasure, Bloom as flowers on our way in the budding of May With their gold and deep purpled heather; And bloom of the deep purpled heather. And with Him who has sent, these sweet lilies have lent, Their footsteps we may leave to His keeping, For the angels of light through the day and the night Hold their ward o’er our little ones sleeping— Our darlings ward waking or sleeping. LOST LOVES. In a note from the far distant hills, A whispering voice from the sea, In a tune like the rippling of rills, Your voices come singing to me— In a musical, mystical strain From the days long ago sped away, And I, rapt in their wondrous refrain, Am lost in their marvello… |
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Castles in Galicia: Pontedeume, Monfero, San Sadurni o, Moeche, Sobroso Castle, Tebra Castle, Torres Do Oeste, Monterreal Castle, Fornelos Castle $8.96 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Pontedeume is a borough of Ferrolterra in Northwestern Spain in the Province of A Coruña, in the autonomous community of Galicia. Ferrolterra’s population represents the third largest concentration of people in Galicia, and its disperse population exceeds 211,000 (2005). This is the 14th century beautiful Tower of Andrade in the City centre Due to its proximity to the Atlantic Ocean, it could be said that Pontedeume does not enjoy extreme oscillation in its weather conditions neither in winter nor in summer. The weather is mild all the year around almost as if we were talking about one only season, and that is very different from what happens in other parts of the Iberian Peninsula. Like the rest of Galicia, it is rainy and beautifully green. Still, the summers tend to be a bit dryer than the winters. The borough can be divided into several parishes, also known as “Parroquias”, which differ from each other in extension, population density, economic activities. Farming and services are the main economic activities, though from the late 1950s and particularly from the mid 1970s Pontedeume has develop itself as an attractive coastal resort making a very good use of its history, good weather, natural beauty and wonderful beaches. … More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3734907 |
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Chapman’s Homeric Hymns and Other Homerica $15.98 “It should be very satisfying to sing hymns to gods whom everyone can agree exist, so tune up your pipes for Apollo, the archer and fair king of days, or for Venus, the soft skinned, because both beauty and sunshine deserve our adoration. How appropriate that the voice you can choose here should be Elizabethan, queen of the Enlightenment, and patron of the poets, George Chapman so much among them, who made the old world new, and heard the voice of heroes in all of Homer’s songs.”—William H. Gass”Chapman’s versions inspired English poets for centuries after his time. They rest on a minute and perceptive reading of the texts. And they retain their power to fascinate and provoke anyone interested in Homer and his afterlife, in Renaissance ideas about classical and modern poetry, or in the development of the language of English poetry.”—Anthony T. Grafton, Princeton University”Oft of one wide expanse had I been toldThat deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne;Yet did I never breathe its pure sereneTill I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold”—John Keats, “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” |
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Cheerful Abeyance $9.78 Benedryl for the heart Sweet words of the Tao Blackberry to make all succinct Eloquent the text, twitter quiet rest Poetry spells relief in the nowHow many of us can wake up gracefully with a breath of new joyous time? Most start their wake with televised bait that startles their heart and mind. As human beings poetry is needed for our heart heath. A starting verse in the morning, a stanza at night, a pep talk at noon is the poem. With all our meals, a vitamin of steel, it supports us from the gloom of the real. Poetry is as essential as the air. We cannot live without that beauty which balances us. It is an everyday practice bringing us back to soul and substance, summarizes happiness, solidifying peace, and stabilizes us with the wisdom to live well. |
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Cheerful Abeyance $9.99 Benedryl for the heart Sweet words of the Tao Blackberry to make all succinct Eloquent the text, twitter quiet rest Poetry spells relief in the nowHow many of us can wake up gracefully with a breath of new joyous time? Most start their wake with televised bait that startles their heart and mind. As human beings poetry is needed for our heart heath. A starting verse in the morning, a stanza at night, a pep talk at noon is the poem. With all our meals, a vitamin of steel, it supports us from the gloom of the real. Poetry is as essential as the air. We cannot live without that beauty which balances us. It is an everyday practice bringing us back to soul and substance, summarizes happiness, solidifying peace, and stabilizes us with the wisdom to live well. |
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Chinese Plays (Study Guide): Chinese Republican Era Plays, Romance of the West Chamber, Circle of Chalk, the Other Shore, Thunderstorm $8.78 Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Chinese Republican Era Plays, Romance of the West Chamber, Circle of Chalk, the Other Shore, Thunderstorm, Secret Love for the Peach Blossom Spring, Hai Rui Dismissed From Office, Orphan of Zhao. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Romance of the West Chamber (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: xxingjì; Record of the Western Chamber) is one of the most famous Chinese dramatic works. It was written by the Yuan Dynasty playwright Wang Shifu (ca 1260-1336), and set during the Tang Dynasty. It is a story of young lovers consummating their love without parental approval, and has been called “China’s most popular love comedy” and a “lover’s bible”. At the same time, some have called it potentially dangerous, as there are stories of readers pining away under its influence. A pair of ivory fans depicting scenes from Romance of the West Chamber in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.The play is composed of twenty-one acts in five parts. It tells the story of a secret love affair between Zhang Sheng, a young scholar, and Cui Yingying, the daughter of a chief minister of the Tang court. The two first meet in a Buddhist monastery. Yingying and her mother have stopped there to rest while escorting the coffin of Yingying’s father to their native town. Zhang Sheng falls in love with her immediately, but is prevented from expressing his feelings while Yingying is under her mother’s watchful eye. The most he can do is express his love in a poem read aloud behind the wall of the courtyard in which Yingying is lodging. However, word of Yingying’s beauty soon reaches Sun the Flying Tiger, a local bandit. He dispatches ruffians to surround the monastery, in the hopes of taking her as his consort. Yingying’s mother agrees that whoever drives the |
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Collected Sonnets Of Lloyd Mifflin $22.26 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:NOVEMBER A Stately figure walking through the wood; Her features faded; in her eye a tear; Her face the grave of beauty, sad, severe; A queen dethroned, and in her solitude. Her crimson robes that long the winds withstood, Now trailing dark in mourning for the year. In her pale hands the pendent ivy, sere; Stript of her coronal; in widowhood; Yet still remembering her magnificence, She walks superbly through the leafless glades; She feels the splendor of her opulence Has faded from her as the leaf’s, that fades; A queen indeed! in royal impotence She sweeps—how proudly! down into the shades.THE FRONTIER O Soldier ! treading through the long day’s heat, With tattered banner and with drooping crest, Now as the sun sinks down thy purpled West,- Thou who hast come so far with aching feet, Thou who must march and never canst retreat, Art thou not weary of the bootless quest? Look’st thou not forward to a time of rest? Sweet will it be—beyond all telling sweet— After long marches with red danger fraught; The wakeful bivouac; the assault and flight ; After thy scars of glory, sore distraught, To camp afar beyond the plains of sight, Wrapped in the blanket of a dreamless night, Out past the pickets and the tents of thought! chapter{Section 4WIND ON THE HILLS Great fleets of riven clouds intensely white, Sailing wind-harried, ‘thwart the lowering sky; On the wild River, where the islands lie, Long levels of insufferable light; Cloud-shadows, moving in portentous flight, Dimming the crimson of the steeps near by And glooming golden ridges, crested high, As the dread pinions of Apollyon might: Weird slopes of tawny grasses, all astir, As if some monster crept along the hill Covered with hide of panther-colored fur; While in… |
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Collected Sonnets Of Lloyd Mifflin $22.09 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:NOVEMBER A Stately figure walking through the wood; Her features faded; in her eye a tear; Her face the grave of beauty, sad, severe; A queen dethroned, and in her solitude. Her crimson robes that long the winds withstood, Now trailing dark in mourning for the year. In her pale hands the pendent ivy, sere; Stript of her coronal; in widowhood; Yet still remembering her magnificence, She walks superbly through the leafless glades; She feels the splendor of her opulence Has faded from her as the leaf’s, that fades; A queen indeed! in royal impotence She sweeps—how proudly! down into the shades.THE FRONTIER O Soldier ! treading through the long day’s heat, With tattered banner and with drooping crest, Now as the sun sinks down thy purpled West,- Thou who hast come so far with aching feet, Thou who must march and never canst retreat, Art thou not weary of the bootless quest? Look’st thou not forward to a time of rest? Sweet will it be—beyond all telling sweet— After long marches with red danger fraught; The wakeful bivouac; the assault and flight ; After thy scars of glory, sore distraught, To camp afar beyond the plains of sight, Wrapped in the blanket of a dreamless night, Out past the pickets and the tents of thought! chapter{Section 4WIND ON THE HILLS Great fleets of riven clouds intensely white, Sailing wind-harried, ‘thwart the lowering sky; On the wild River, where the islands lie, Long levels of insufferable light; Cloud-shadows, moving in portentous flight, Dimming the crimson of the steeps near by And glooming golden ridges, crested high, As the dread pinions of Apollyon might: Weird slopes of tawny grasses, all astir, As if some monster crept along the hill Covered with hide of panther-colored fur; While in… |
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Collected Sonnets Of Lloyd Mifflin $26.85 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:NOVEMBER A Stately figure walking through the wood; Her features faded; in her eye a tear; Her face the grave of beauty, sad, severe; A queen dethroned, and in her solitude. Her crimson robes that long the winds withstood, Now trailing dark in mourning for the year. In her pale hands the pendent ivy, sere; Stript of her coronal; in widowhood; Yet still remembering her magnificence, She walks superbly through the leafless glades; She feels the splendor of her opulence Has faded from her as the leaf’s, that fades; A queen indeed! in royal impotence She sweeps—how proudly! down into the shades.THE FRONTIER O Soldier ! treading through the long day’s heat, With tattered banner and with drooping crest, Now as the sun sinks down thy purpled West,- Thou who hast come so far with aching feet, Thou who must march and never canst retreat, Art thou not weary of the bootless quest? Look’st thou not forward to a time of rest? Sweet will it be—beyond all telling sweet— After long marches with red danger fraught; The wakeful bivouac; the assault and flight ; After thy scars of glory, sore distraught, To camp afar beyond the plains of sight, Wrapped in the blanket of a dreamless night, Out past the pickets and the tents of thought! chapter{Section 4WIND ON THE HILLS Great fleets of riven clouds intensely white, Sailing wind-harried, ‘thwart the lowering sky; On the wild River, where the islands lie, Long levels of insufferable light; Cloud-shadows, moving in portentous flight, Dimming the crimson of the steeps near by And glooming golden ridges, crested high, As the dread pinions of Apollyon might: Weird slopes of tawny grasses, all astir, As if some monster crept along the hill Covered with hide of panther-colored fur; While in… |
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Collected Sonnets Of Lloyd Mifflin $34.48 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:NOVEMBER A Stately figure walking through the wood; Her features faded; in her eye a tear; Her face the grave of beauty, sad, severe; A queen dethroned, and in her solitude. Her crimson robes that long the winds withstood, Now trailing dark in mourning for the year. In her pale hands the pendent ivy, sere; Stript of her coronal; in widowhood; Yet still remembering her magnificence, She walks superbly through the leafless glades; She feels the splendor of her opulence Has faded from her as the leaf’s, that fades; A queen indeed! in royal impotence She sweeps—how proudly! down into the shades.THE FRONTIER O Soldier ! treading through the long day’s heat, With tattered banner and with drooping crest, Now as the sun sinks down thy purpled West,- Thou who hast come so far with aching feet, Thou who must march and never canst retreat, Art thou not weary of the bootless quest? Look’st thou not forward to a time of rest? Sweet will it be—beyond all telling sweet— After long marches with red danger fraught; The wakeful bivouac; the assault and flight ; After thy scars of glory, sore distraught, To camp afar beyond the plains of sight, Wrapped in the blanket of a dreamless night, Out past the pickets and the tents of thought! chapter{Section 4WIND ON THE HILLS Great fleets of riven clouds intensely white, Sailing wind-harried, ‘thwart the lowering sky; On the wild River, where the islands lie, Long levels of insufferable light; Cloud-shadows, moving in portentous flight, Dimming the crimson of the steeps near by And glooming golden ridges, crested high, As the dread pinions of Apollyon might: Weird slopes of tawny grasses, all astir, As if some monster crept along the hill Covered with hide of panther-colored fur; While in… |
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Collected Sonnets Of Lloyd Mifflin $27.16 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:NOVEMBER A Stately figure walking through the wood; Her features faded; in her eye a tear; Her face the grave of beauty, sad, severe; A queen dethroned, and in her solitude. Her crimson robes that long the winds withstood, Now trailing dark in mourning for the year. In her pale hands the pendent ivy, sere; Stript of her coronal; in widowhood; Yet still remembering her magnificence, She walks superbly through the leafless glades; She feels the splendor of her opulence Has faded from her as the leaf’s, that fades; A queen indeed! in royal impotence She sweeps—how proudly! down into the shades.THE FRONTIER O Soldier ! treading through the long day’s heat, With tattered banner and with drooping crest, Now as the sun sinks down thy purpled West,- Thou who hast come so far with aching feet, Thou who must march and never canst retreat, Art thou not weary of the bootless quest? Look’st thou not forward to a time of rest? Sweet will it be—beyond all telling sweet— After long marches with red danger fraught; The wakeful bivouac; the assault and flight ; After thy scars of glory, sore distraught, To camp afar beyond the plains of sight, Wrapped in the blanket of a dreamless night, Out past the pickets and the tents of thought! chapter{Section 4WIND ON THE HILLS Great fleets of riven clouds intensely white, Sailing wind-harried, ‘thwart the lowering sky; On the wild River, where the islands lie, Long levels of insufferable light; Cloud-shadows, moving in portentous flight, Dimming the crimson of the steeps near by And glooming golden ridges, crested high, As the dread pinions of Apollyon might: Weird slopes of tawny grasses, all astir, As if some monster crept along the hill Covered with hide of panther-colored fur; While in… |
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Color Stories: Behind the Scenes of America’s Billion-Dollar Beauty Industry $0.99 For everyone who’s ever slicked on lipstick, flirted with eye shadow, or browsed the bewildering array in any store’s beauty de-partment, Color Stories offers an insider’s view of all the brainstorming, bickering, and bitchery that go into those little sticks of color and pans of powder.Former beauty editor Mary Lisa Gavenas takes us behind the scenes during the nine months that culminate in the launch of a season’s all-important “color stories.” We discover how one shade becomes the “must have,” why makeup artists never use the same products as the rest of us, and exactly how easy — and impossible — it is to start a million-dollar makeup line.Backstage at the runway shows, we’re swept into the catty, chaotic work world of makeup mogul Bobbi Brown and supermodel Gisele Bündchen. At Estee Lauder headquarters, we see the achingly chic Aerin Lauder Zinterhofer spin societal trends into a lipstick lineup. We watch magazines cheat to make makeup work for layouts, find out how Cindy Crawford got to be worth every penny of her $10 million contract, and make the pilgrimage to Dallas as 35,000 of the Mary Kay faithful assemble for the fabled annual Seminar. Along the way, we also learn about marketing, media, and the manipulation of aesthetics, about the codification of physical beauty, and how this industry revolutionized the role of women in business.Through its often funny, sometimes poignant scenes of seduction, courtship, and consummation, Color Stories reveals why women become besotted by beauty products — and why that love affair will never end. |
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Creation’s Symphony $7.46 God’s creation is a symphony, a tapestry of beautiful artwork. God’s face can be seen through the morning sunrise as it dances across the land. His beauty is seen in the roses in springtime. His majesty is felt in the sound of coming storm clouds. God’s promise of love to us can be seen in the light of the moon on the ocean and in the tide that washes against our ankles. The writer reminds us that we must take time to see the beauty around us, to rest in God’s grace and to let God’s love fill us until it overflows. God’s promise of love is for a lifetime. His love is there whether we are living on the mountaintop or in the valley deep. It is the writer’s prayer that the reader will truly see God in these pages.Tim Stewart was born in Florida, grew up in Colorado and relocated to South Carolina for college. He resides with his mom and stepfather, “Pops” in Gilbert, South Carolina. Life began to change unexplainably for Tim during his college years. Although unknown to him at the time, Tim later learned that he had a mental illness and in 2002 was diagnosed with schizophrenia. He has learned over the last few years that schizophrenia is part of who he is. But, more importantly, he knows that God is still in control despite the struggles associated with this disease. With his strong faith in God and the strong support of his family and friends he does his best to live each day to the fullest. God has given him a wonderful talent and his greatest desire is to use his writings to glorify his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. |
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Daisy In The Field, By The Author Of ‘The Wide, Wide World’ $51.32 General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1870Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free.Excerpt: CHAPTER IIL IN BEVIEW. There were a party of us that went that morning to see the sights in the neighbourhood of Washington. On horseback we were; Dr Sandford and Mrs Sandford, Colonel Forsyth, whom I had seen at West Point, another gentleman, and myself. I suppose my senses were keened by anxiety ; 1 never shall forget the wonderful beauty of the afternoon and of what we came to see. In some intense moods of mind, it seems as if every sunbeam had daguerreotyping power, and memory the preparedness to receive and retain. And I could tell even now, where there was a sunny bank, and where a group of sun-touched trees; the ring of our horses’ hoofs is in my ear with a thought; and I could almost paint from memory the first view of the camp we went to see. We had crossed over into Virginia; and this regiment — it was Ellsworth’s they told me — was encamped upon a hill, where tents and trees and uniforms made a bright, very picturesque, picture. Ellsworth’s corps ; and he was gone already. I could not help thinking of that; and while the rest of the party were busy and merry over the camp doings, I sat in my saddle looking over some lower grounds below the hill, where several other regiments were going through certain exercises. It looked like war! it went through my heart. And Ellsworth’s soldiers had lost their commander already. Very likely there was somebody to miss and mourn him; somebody at home; his mother ‘ — a young wife, perhaps ” Is Daisy tired already 1″ Dr Sandford’s voice was at my side. I roused myself and said we had had a pretty brisk ride, and I had not been on |
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Dakota $1.99 HE CAME WEST HAUNTED BY DEATH AND GRIEF…In 1884, a Harvard-educated legislator from New York set off for Dakota Territory. Staggered by the deaths of his mother and wife on the same tragic night, Teddy Roosevelt was returning to a place he had visited the year before, a place that had struck him with its fierce beauty and its bounty of big game and big opportunity. By the Little Missouri River, Teddy Roosevelt established a ranching empire, and soon stood at the center of a storm…AND ON A VIOLENT LAND, HE WAS REBORN…Less than a decade after an Indian rebellion and the Battle of the Little Big Horn, Dakota was being settled by the brave, the ambitious, and the restless. While some men were grabbing power, some were getting away with murder. For Roosevelt, using local cowboys and transplanted Easterners as his ranch hands, this was a place to make his mark, to make a stand and to look a killer in the eye. And this was a time to bring wild Dakota into the heart of America…”Matt Braun is a master storyteller of frontier history.”—Elmer Kelton”Matt Braun is head and shoulders above all the rest who would attempt to bring the gunmen of the old west to life.”—Terry C. Johnston, author of The Plainsmen series |
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Dark Orchard $12.95 Winner of the 2005 Texas Review Breakthrough Poetry Prize”In a world that is nearly awash in first books, William Wright’s Dark Orchard stands out for its lyrical obsession with the heritage a son may have from parents and from the deeply felt landscape of childhood. . . . The language is filled with a kind of desolation and a beauty that is not quite despair, something that is better known, one suspects, by the young than by the rest of us. We should be grateful for this chance to rediscover its reach.”—Phebe Davidson”William Wright’s poems welcome us into a rich and enchanting universe. Planted in the fecund soil of his native South Carolina, this book’s vision is simultaneously delicate and dangerous, touching and alarming. Woven throughout with the subtle undertones of his poetic forebears (one sees Theodore Roethke, Robert Penn Warren, and James Wright dancing in the shadows), Dark Orchard is an impressive debut volume with a depth of insight that belies the author’s youth, a collection that leaves me thirsting for the next book.”—Stephen GardnerAuthor Biography: Born in 1979, WILLIAM WRIGHT was raised in the ridge-country of Edgefield, South Carolina. His work has appeared in many journals, including Poet Lore, Cimarron Review, Texas Review, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Red Owl, Phoebe, StorySouth: The Best from New South Writers, and Yemassee. Wright teaches and tutors writing and literature at Sam Houston State University and Montgomery College. |
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Daughter of Egypt $0.99 After a childhood spent living on the streets, Thalia had survived more danger than most men saw in a lifetime. Perhaps that was why she could not bring herself to accept one of the inexperienced young suitors her adoptive Bedouin mother encouraged her to marry. But when a stranger with silver eyes appeared in her garden, Thalia felta fear she had almost forgotten…and a desire she’d never known.They called him the Destroyer, a commander of men, but at the first sight of his lost betrothed, Count Ashtyn’s heart surrendered. He made a vow then to win her love and restore the heritage that was stolen from her as a child. But another man had followed her into the desert, one that served a dark figure who had sworn never to rest until the formidable beauty had taken her proper place as his bride. He would do anything to own her, but Ashtyn would dare anything to stand at her side. |
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Design:Japan $1.99 From acclaimed photographer Michael Freeman and design expert Michiko Rico Nosé come a unique vision of contemporary Japanese style. Following the themes of “Work,” “Rest,” and “Play,” they examine a wide variety of aesthetically influential spaces, objects, and personalities, and delve into the heart of fashionable Japan. Covering the work of 27 designers, architects, artists, and creative entrepreneurs, this eye-opening look takes readers right into the very homes and offices of these trendsetters. From movable gardens to the perfect kitchen, from boutiques and beauty salons to the hippest clubs, bars, and restaurants, the specially commissioned photographs capture Japanese design at its playful, innovative best. |
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Distant Moments – Angela’s Story $1.99 Distant Moments—Angela’s Story is filled with drama, excitement, love, disappointments and a feel for what it was like to be an immigrant so long ago. Unloved by her mother, adored by her father, 16-year-old Angela Pollak, a fiery Austrian beauty, was betrothed by her parents to a man she detested. Soon after the wedding, her husband, Hans, migrated to New York and two years later sent for Angela. Shortly after her arrival, Angela noticed her once handsome husband had abusive, drinking problems and was also seeing another woman. A year later, in 1905, their daughter was born and matters got worse with Hans. The couple soon separated—he wanted a new life with his married paramour and Angela was left to raise her beloved Julia in a strange country. Several years later, unforeseen circumstances forced Angela to send the child to Groissenbrunn to be raised by her parents. Rudy enters her life in 1911 and she finds true happiness for the rest of her days. This novel follows Angela’s life to the end. Her successes in New York City were many, especially pioneering Antique Row on Third Avenue more than 70 years ago. |
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Earth: An Intimate History $0.99 From the acclaimed author of Life and Trilobite!, a fascinating geological exploration of the earth’s distant history as revealed by its natural wonders.The face of the earth, crisscrossed by chains of mountains like the scars of old wounds, has changed and changed again over billions of years, and the testament of the remote past is all around us. In this book Richard Fortey teaches us how to read its character, laying out the dominions of the world before us. He shows how human culture and natural history–even the shape of cities–are rooted in this deep geological past. In search of this past, Fortey takes us through the Alps, into Icelandic hot springs, down to the ocean floor, over the barren rocks of Newfoundland, into the lush ecosystems of Hawai’i, across the salt flats of Oman, and along the San Andreas Fault. On the slopes of Vesuvius, he tracks the history of the region down through the centuries?to volcanic eruptions seen by fifteenth-century Italians, the Romans, and, from striking geological evidence, even Neolithic man. As story adds to story, the recent past connects with forgotten ages long ago, then much longer ago, as he describes the movement of plates and the development of ancient continents and seas. Nothing in this book is at rest. The surface of the earth dilates and collapses; seas and mountains rise and fall; continents move.Fortey again proves himself the ideal guide, with his superb descriptions of natural beauty, his gripping narratives, and his crystal-clear, always fascinating scientific explanations.Here is a book to change the way we see the world. |
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Edna Lyall; An Appreciation. With Biographical And Criticial Notes $11.65 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:THE Love of peace, the Hate of dreadful war Burned in her bosom. At her gentle side, It seemed all things that trembled could abide, And in her heart found shelter from afar. Too frail for this world’s fierce tumultuous jar, Above the mist and dark material tide She held the image of the Crucified With Faith upon her forehead for a star. Henceforth beside the pleasant southern wave, The pines shall sigh, the seablrds call in vain, For death has wiped her footprints from the sand. Ah I write above her rest, ” She strove to save The land she loved from all dishonour’s stain, Fearless—for Christ went with her hand in hand.” Eattbourne Gazette, H. D. Rawnsliy. February r6th, 1903. Another of those fairer souls which bloom So oft to beauty in frail womanhood, And breathe the perfume of eternal good O’er all that knew them, even from the tomb, Is journeying onwards to diviner light Than flesh could bound, e’en 1n the plenitude Of Christian sympathy in which she stood, Soul-lovely, ever valiant for Right. And, whilst the amber vapours disunite The fragile flower, doomed early to decay In its own summer, poignant grief will sway The hearts of many whom, by gentle might, In callous age and in adventurous youth, She ’stablished in her God’s Eternal Truth. John P. N1x. t Gazette, February 18th, 1903. BIBLIOGRAPHY. 1879. ” Won by Waiting.” 1882. “Donovan.” 1884. “We Two.” 1885. ” In the Golden Days.” 1886. “Their Happiest Christmas.” 1887. “Knight Errant.” 1887. “The Autobiography of a Slander.” 1889. ” A Hardy Norseman.” 1889. ” Derrick Vaughan.” 1892. ” To Right the Wrong.” 1893. Introduction to Mrs. Wyndham Knight- Bruce’s “The Story of an African Chief,” being the Life of Khama. 1894. ” Doreen the Singer.”… |
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Essays and Poems $22.87 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:The shadows that are darkening on my life ; My spirits long to clasp, in its embrace, Some impress of your beauty—do ye dwell in hope ? Oh, give me back my happiness, my youth, My rapturous wild love !—bring me those days That rest in Memory’s fabric, beautiful And calm !—come, with a tone of magic sweetness, And make them into life. There is no hope, And I am desolate ! [Exit. SCENE V. A magnificent banquet hall, brilliantly lighted up— guests dancing—Madeline and Mephisto as Count Von Altrecht. Mephisto (gazing upon her as she comes up.) She bears his absence with a marvellous ease— I swear, bright lady, there is no such star Within the azure shining, that can match Those eyes of thine—snow is scarce whiter than Thy marble brow, thy lips are carved with art, More skilful than e’er Phidias gave His life-like sculpture. MADELINE. So, your praise amounts To liken me, at best, to well-cut marble ! Indeed, Sir Count, you flatter ! Mephisto. Very oft— But for the moment, truly, I forget, Ariel come, for once, nigh truth. I tell thee, lady, That flattery will never speak so true As I have, when I match’d thy beauty ‘gainst Some mighty carving (pauses). There was once An antique sculptor who, from the rude block, Did cut a statue of such mighty beauty, that He never gazed on’t but his eyes would fill With big round tears of love—his heart became A boundless fountain of wild passion for That form. It wanted but the life To make it matchless, and he pray’d the gods To vivify the stone—his prayer was heard ! Soon through the marble veins the warm blood flow’d— The rose bloom’d on the cheek—the lips Grew eloquent with intellectual life— The brow was radiant—and the midnight hair Waved in the odorous |
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Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Over-Soul, Politics, Self-Reliance, Nature, the Poet, the Transcendentalist, New England Reformers, Circles $9.16 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Over-Soul, Politics, Self-Reliance, Nature, the Poet, the Transcendentalist, New England Reformers, Circles, Compensation, Experience. Excerpt: “The Oversoul” is an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson, first published in 1841. The essay includes the following passage: The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present, and the only prophet of that which must be, is that great nature in which we rest, as the earth lies in the soft arms of the atmosphere; that Unity, that Over-soul, within which every man’s particular being is contained and made one with all other; that common heart. For Emerson the term denotes a supreme underlying unity which transcends duality or plurality, much in keeping with the philosophy of Advaita Vedanta. This non-Abrahamic interpretation of Emerson’s use of the term is further supported by the fact that Emerson’s Journal records in 1845 suggest that he was reading the Bhagavad Gita and Henry Thomas Colebrooke’s Essays on the Vedas. Emerson goes on in the same essay to further articulate his view of this dichotomy between phenomenal plurality and transcendental unity: We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul. Over-soul has more recently come to be used by Eastern phi… More: |
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Euthanasia Island $10.75 Euthanasia Island … a final destination for the terminally ill … an island paradise of pristine beauty, white sandy beaches, epic mountains and valleys and a sunrise surpassed only by the magnificence of the sunsets-in short, the perfect place for friends and family to bring their loved ones to enjoy a final three days of rest, beauty and reconciliation, followed by a quick and painless death without suffering or lingering pain. No bureaucratic meddling or government interference could interfere in these international waters or otherwise prevent the final peace sought by its participants. Stanley Rosenthal purchased and designed the operations on Euthanasia Island after nursing his wife through a long fatal illness, hoping to spare others the pain and horror he had experienced. However, over time, Stanley’s original intentions wander far from his original path of good intentions. And now something is very, very wrong on Euthanasia Island. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: J. Bruno has published several stories including ‘Told U So,’ ‘Piece of Mind,’ ‘SNUFF,’ and ‘Time Changes.’ He recently sold a screenplay, ‘The Chick’in Little Caper,’ and wrote a humorous/informative monthly column explaining Internet sites. He’s also written articles for several Internet sites on a wide variety of subjects.He is educated in architecture and construction, with a further education in writing and public speaking. J. Bruno likes to write stories and hopes you enjoy reading this one. |
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Events in Bolivia: Beauty Pageants in Bolivia, Miss Bolivia, Reina Hispanoamericana 2009, Miss Bolivia 2008, Reina Hispanoamericana 2008 $19.99 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Beauty Pageants in Bolivia, Miss Bolivia, Reina Hispanoamericana 2009, Miss Bolivia 2008, Reina Hispanoamericana 2008, Reina Hispanoamericana 2007, Miss Latin America 1987, Reina Sudamericana 2006, Reina Sudamericana 2004, Reina Sudamericana 2005, Reina Sudamericana 2003, Reina Sudamericana 2002, Reina Sudamericana 2000, Reina Sudamericana 2001, Reina Sudamericana 1998, Reina Sudamericana 1997. Excerpt: Ana María Ortiz in Miss World 2006 .Katherine David Céspedes in Miss Universe 2008 .Miss Bolivia is a Bolivian beauty contest responsible for selecting women to represent Bolivia in the Miss Universe , Miss World , Miss International , and Miss Earth international pageants. It was founded in 1959 and Gloria Suárez de Limpias has been the event’s director since 1979. As of 2009, Bolivia has not won a Miss Universe or Miss World title.A three-hour parade is held annually on August 5. Bolivian TV channel Unitel broadcasts it to the rest of Latin America , and cable broadcasts are available in the United States . For approximately one month, there are several preliminary events and presentations regarding the main parade.Pageant in 2009 By general rule, three crowns are given each year: Miss Bolivia goes to Miss Universe , Miss Bolivia Mundo to Miss World , and Miss Bolivia Internacional to the Miss International contest; a fourth title is given to the representative for Miss Continente Americano . Besides the titleholders, there are four runner-up positions.This year the local pageant changed its previous awarding modality by removing the inner Miss Amazonia, Miss Valle and Miss Andalucia titles to be replaced with Miss Bicentenario and Srta. Bicentenario, which are meant to be a historical way to remember the first steps of the local social |
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Evolution And Spiritual Life $25.85 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:Incompleteness of Bergsoris System 15 that is not; and that it introduces an insoluble problem of evil. Finally the intellectualism which gives rise to such a conception is landed in innumerable reduc- tiones ad absurda when it has to face the common aspects of phenomenal experience, if it be true to its own method. (2) On the other hand, standing apart, we find Bergson, for whom the ultimate reality is spirit, and spirit is progress. God is eternal freedom and growth, eternal activity, ever increasing “God has nothing of the already made1.” We cannot say that He is, for while we think it He has changed. Indeed we may not speak of Him, but merely of a centre of activity without hypostasis or being, or anything but growth. Clearly the mind cannot rest here. M. Bergson has done a great work in exposing the fallacies of intellectualist philosophy; his critique is as original as that of Kant, and his constructive genius is un- .. rivalled; nevertheless in losing touch with the problem of personality he has thus far missed the coping stone of his edifice. He has raised but a roofless temple, and the defect cannot be hid by the beauty and purity of its outline. It is an uncompleted Parthenon, in which no god dwells, and where no soul can fulfil itself in worship. His system is not far removed from a progressive pantheism, spreading in ever- widening circles. There is freedom, ever increasing, 1 Creative Evolution, p. 262. 16 Philosopher and Savage alike reach but there is no perfect day. True, he admits the existence of personality, but only as, so to speak, the substratum of intuition. Personality is for him essentially a flux. It has a unity, but only through intuition. Reality is only reached by the integration of intuitional experience—an integration that must be |
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Evolution And Spiritual Life $15.57 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:Incompleteness of Bergsoris System 15 that is not; and that it introduces an insoluble problem of evil. Finally the intellectualism which gives rise to such a conception is landed in innumerable reduc- tiones ad absurda when it has to face the common aspects of phenomenal experience, if it be true to its own method. (2) On the other hand, standing apart, we find Bergson, for whom the ultimate reality is spirit, and spirit is progress. God is eternal freedom and growth, eternal activity, ever increasing “God has nothing of the already made1.” We cannot say that He is, for while we think it He has changed. Indeed we may not speak of Him, but merely of a centre of activity without hypostasis or being, or anything but growth. Clearly the mind cannot rest here. M. Bergson has done a great work in exposing the fallacies of intellectualist philosophy; his critique is as original as that of Kant, and his constructive genius is un- .. rivalled; nevertheless in losing touch with the problem of personality he has thus far missed the coping stone of his edifice. He has raised but a roofless temple, and the defect cannot be hid by the beauty and purity of its outline. It is an uncompleted Parthenon, in which no god dwells, and where no soul can fulfil itself in worship. His system is not far removed from a progressive pantheism, spreading in ever- widening circles. There is freedom, ever increasing, 1 Creative Evolution, p. 262. 16 Philosopher and Savage alike reach but there is no perfect day. True, he admits the existence of personality, but only as, so to speak, the substratum of intuition. Personality is for him essentially a flux. It has a unity, but only through intuition. Reality is only reached by the integration of intuitional experience—an integration that must be |
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Evolution And Spiritual Life $20.09 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:Incompleteness of Bergsoris System 15 that is not; and that it introduces an insoluble problem of evil. Finally the intellectualism which gives rise to such a conception is landed in innumerable reduc- tiones ad absurda when it has to face the common aspects of phenomenal experience, if it be true to its own method. (2) On the other hand, standing apart, we find Bergson, for whom the ultimate reality is spirit, and spirit is progress. God is eternal freedom and growth, eternal activity, ever increasing “God has nothing of the already made1.” We cannot say that He is, for while we think it He has changed. Indeed we may not speak of Him, but merely of a centre of activity without hypostasis or being, or anything but growth. Clearly the mind cannot rest here. M. Bergson has done a great work in exposing the fallacies of intellectualist philosophy; his critique is as original as that of Kant, and his constructive genius is un- .. rivalled; nevertheless in losing touch with the problem of personality he has thus far missed the coping stone of his edifice. He has raised but a roofless temple, and the defect cannot be hid by the beauty and purity of its outline. It is an uncompleted Parthenon, in which no god dwells, and where no soul can fulfil itself in worship. His system is not far removed from a progressive pantheism, spreading in ever- widening circles. There is freedom, ever increasing, 1 Creative Evolution, p. 262. 16 Philosopher and Savage alike reach but there is no perfect day. True, he admits the existence of personality, but only as, so to speak, the substratum of intuition. Personality is for him essentially a flux. It has a unity, but only through intuition. Reality is only reached by the integration of intuitional experience—an integration that must be |
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Eyes Of Horus $25.95 The third of Joan Grant’s “Far Memory” novels, Eyes of Horus, set in Egypt at the close of the dark XIth Dynasty, is a profound commentary on the power of fear and the unlimited ability of light to shatter it.Eyes of Horus is the story, told in the first person, of Ra-ab, heir to the Nomarch of the Oryx, one of eighteen provinces in Egypt. He comes to learn that the Oryx is different than the rest of Egypt-it is still in touch with the light. The rest of Egypt is plagued by fear and ruled by corruption. Pharaoh is an ineffectual ruler. The priests have replaced the worship of Ptah with the worship of Set. Only the Oryx has cast off these shackles-and it is from the Oryx that a silent brotherhood of the ‘eyes of Horus’-the Watchers of the Horizon-arises, to work and wait for the dawn of a new age in Egypt. ‘Send Fear into Exile’, is the Watchers’ password, and when the time is ripe, Ra-ab leads the Oryx and its followers to victory-and a new Egypt.As a child growing up in Edwardian England, Joan Grant became aware of an astonishing ability to remember previous lifetimes, and as an author professed her seven novels to be based on her personal recollections of other incarnations, male and female, in ancient civilisations.”This book is warm with the sunshine of Egypt, delicate with the beauty of its homes and palaces, its surpassing art… there are also stories of graft, of insolent luxury… but through all runs the spirit of chivalry and heroism and faith.” Times Literary Supplement |
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Eyes Wide Open $7.48 Have you ever looked into the mirror and seen someone other than yourself? Or maybe you’ve passed by a store window and caught a glimpse of your reflection-a reflection that you have learned to criticize. Too many women live their lives thinking that the body God blessed them with is flawed, awkward, or just downright not acceptable. The secular views of today have completely overshadowed the true meaning of beauty, and the image of the female body has radically been skewed. Come and take the challenge of going against the rest of the world and discovering the truth about what it means to be beautiful. It’s amazing what you’ll see with EYES WIDE OPEN.Tammy Grace travels central Ohio as a Christian motivational speaker and performer. She knows firsthand how it feels to be an adolescent girl, living in a world that proclaims to know exactly what beauty is, but finding her self-image unfitting by its standards. Knowing the Lord all her life didn’t prevent her from detonating many emotional land mines along the way. God has taken the rough experiences of her past and added healing. Now, she has combined them with her passion for dance and music to reach out to teenage girls. She rose from the hurt of her youth to enjoy a successful career in banking, and later gave up her career to spend more time with her three children and ever-supportive husband. Tammy has been actively working with the youth at her home church, Centenary United Methodist since 2001. |
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Far Better Rest $0.99 The French Revolution is vividly brought to life in a brilliant retelling of the classic story that has captured the imagination of readers since the 1850s. In Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, Sydney Carton is an almost ancillary character. Dickens’ novel tells us the stories of Charles Darnay, Lucie Manette, and Alexandre Manette. Carton disappears from the novel for eleven chapters and several years, reappearing without warning to bring the novel to its chilling and heartbreaking end. Yet Dickens is silent about the circumstances that transformed Carton from a promising youth to an embittered alcoholic and finally to the man who makes the ultimate sacrifice for love. A Far Better Rest imagines his missing personal history and makes him the center of this tragic tale. Born in England of a wealthy, unloving father and a French mother, Sydney is sent to study in Paris, where he meets Charles Darnay and the other students—Robespierre and Camille Desmoulins among them—who will have enormous influence on his life and alter the course of French history. Years later, when Sydney, disinherited, is living a lonely and purposeless existence in London, Charles reenters his life. The beauty and kindness of Charles’s wife, Lucie Manette, affects Sydney so deeply that he secretly devotes his life to her happiness.At last abandoning London for Paris, Sydney becomes a witness to the formation of the French Republic at the end of the eighteenth century and also to one of the most turbulent periods in history. A Far Better Rest is a novel of passion, identity, and history that stands fully in its own right. |
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Feather Boy $12.95 “Top flat, Chance House. You can go there. . . . You are the sort of boy who can fly.”That’s what Edith Sorrell, mysterious resident of Mayfield Rest Home, says when Robert asks her to share a wisdom with him as part of a class project. And even though Robert Nobel, a.k.a Norbert No-Bottle, the perpetually picked-on class squit, is convinced she’s batty, he’s determined to pluck up his courage and go. After all, what does Robert have to lose? His dad is busy with his new family, his mum is always at work, the school bully is making his life miserable, and the class beauty won’t give him the time of day.But Edith is hiding a secret about boarded-up Chance House’s past that’s more complicated than Robert ever imagined. The search for the truth begins in the top-floor flat with a few small feathers. Uncovering it will change both of their lives forever.From the Hardcover edition. |
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Films Directed By Barbra Streisand (Study Guide) $8.31 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Mirror Has Two Faces is a 1996 American romantic dramedy film produced and directed by Barbra Streisand, who also stars. The screenplay by Richard LaGravenese is based on the 1958 French film Le Miroir à Deux Faces written by André Cayatte and Gérard Oury, which focused on a homely woman who becomes a beauty, which creates problems in her marriage. The film stars Streisand, Jeff Bridges, Pierce Brosnan, George Segal, Mimi Rogers, Brenda Vaccaro and Lauren Bacall. The film received widespread criticism for being an ego production by Streisand who, with Marvin Hamlisch, Robert John “Mutt” Lange, and Bryan Adams, also composed the film’s theme song, “I Finally Found Someone”, and sang it on the soundtrack with Adams. Rose Morgan (Streisand), a shy, plain, middle-aged English literature professor at Columbia University, shares a home with her vain, overbearing mother Hannah (Bacall). When her attractive sister Claire (Rogers) starts preparations for her wedding to Alex (Brosnan), Rose begins to feel her loveless life is empty. Gregory Larkin (Bridges), a Columbia Mathematics teacher who feels sex complicates matters between men and women, is looking for a relationship based on the intellectual rather than the physical. When he overhears Rose’s lecture about chaste love in literature, he becomes intrigued and asks her out, and is impressed by her wit and knowledge. He proposes marriage, with the condition it will be largely platonic, with rare sex only if she needs it. The prospect of spending the rest of her life as a lonely spinster living with her mother seems far worse than a marriage on those conditions, so Rose accepts. Rose’s attraction to Gregory grows, and one night she attempts to seduce him, much to his annoyance. … More: |
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Fishcamp: Life on an Alaskan Shore $1.99 <p>”Summers, I live at fishcamp. June through August, Mondays and Fridays, my partner and I catch and sell salmon that pass our beach on their way to spawning streams. The rest of the week, and parts of May and September, Ken and I mend nets, comb the rocky shoreline for useful poles and cottonwood bark, do a thousand camp chores and projects. We live quite happily in a tiny cabin at the top of the beach.” -from Fishcam.<p>For the past eighteen summers, Nancy Lord and her partner Ken have made a living, and made a life, fishing for salmon off the west side of Cook Inlet on the southern coast of Alaska. In Fishcamp, Lord provides a nuanced and engrossing portrait of their days and months in camp at the inlet.<p>Beginning with their arrival by plane on a freshly thawed lake, she describes their joys and tribulations as spring gives way to summer and the long months of summer unfold. With poetic cadence and magical tone, Lord draws the reader into life at camp, sharing experiences that range from the mundane to the sublime: the mending of nets; the muscle-wrenching labor of the catch; the exquisite pleasure of an improvised hot-tub; the often unnoticed bounty of the inlet’s flora and fauna. Interwoven throughout the descriptions of quotidian adventure are threads of the deeper history of the region-stories and legends of the native Dena’ina; anecdotes about past and current inlet residents; discussions of the lives of their neighbors, both human and animal, who, like them, live with fish.<p>Fishcamp is Nancy Lord’s eloquent paean to the place she calls home. In clear and richly textured prose, she captures the simple beauty of a life lived with nature, “a part” rather than “apart.” As Lord explains, she shows us in Fishcamp “something about what even one place and its infinitely varied life contributes to the connections among us all and to the wholes we call ‘world’ and ‘culture.’…Wherever our places are and whatever we do in them, perhaps we might all |
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Gai Saber $15.03 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:II CORMAC TO STANGERD HE SEES HER FEET O EYE-DECEIT or heart-deceit, Lo there, my blessing or my bane! A lover at a lady’s feet Holding his heart, and there a pain! A lady’s feet, and there a lover: A patch of snow left by the rain Afield, or two tufts of white clover . . . And near beside a young man slain. II HE SEES HER EYES The fire plays with my lady’s eyes, And they make music in my head. The sea-blue bird that flashing flies Like a sword down the river-bed Links the green earth and azure skies; And so with me is Stangerd wed, When light with light is handfasted. b chapter{Section 4III SHE LIES AND LISTENS Now Stangerd lay abed within The house’s inmost sanctuaries, With both her hands between her knees, And them drawn up towards her chin Touching the fulness of her breast; And her wide eyes could get no rest That sought the dark and saw clouds float, Clouds of crimson radiant mist Which gather’d, mass’d and cours’d above her More lovely than the wings of the West. If such wild heart should turn to love her, What love-words would not such a throat Pour for the overwhelming of her! THE WORTH OF HER For all that body’s loveliness I would give Iceland and no less, And all the lands that lie between The land where the sun is never seen And the roaring Western main; And even so I should be fain To search the world for more to give: Yet search I must if I would live. chapter{Section 5v HIS PHILOSOPHY I love a lovely woman—well, And if some other love her—good! All goes toprove my hardihood, All goes her magicry to tell. For say she is a miracle, Say that her beauty is my food, Am I so surly in my mood That what feeds me rings t’other’s knell ? Nay, should a hundred be about her,… |
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Gai Saber $30.86 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:II CORMAC TO STANGERD HE SEES HER FEET O EYE-DECEIT or heart-deceit, Lo there, my blessing or my bane! A lover at a lady’s feet Holding his heart, and there a pain! A lady’s feet, and there a lover: A patch of snow left by the rain Afield, or two tufts of white clover . . . And near beside a young man slain. II HE SEES HER EYES The fire plays with my lady’s eyes, And they make music in my head. The sea-blue bird that flashing flies Like a sword down the river-bed Links the green earth and azure skies; And so with me is Stangerd wed, When light with light is handfasted. b chapter{Section 4III SHE LIES AND LISTENS Now Stangerd lay abed within The house’s inmost sanctuaries, With both her hands between her knees, And them drawn up towards her chin Touching the fulness of her breast; And her wide eyes could get no rest That sought the dark and saw clouds float, Clouds of crimson radiant mist Which gather’d, mass’d and cours’d above her More lovely than the wings of the West. If such wild heart should turn to love her, What love-words would not such a throat Pour for the overwhelming of her! THE WORTH OF HER For all that body’s loveliness I would give Iceland and no less, And all the lands that lie between The land where the sun is never seen And the roaring Western main; And even so I should be fain To search the world for more to give: Yet search I must if I would live. chapter{Section 5v HIS PHILOSOPHY I love a lovely woman—well, And if some other love her—good! All goes toprove my hardihood, All goes her magicry to tell. For say she is a miracle, Say that her beauty is my food, Am I so surly in my mood That what feeds me rings t’other’s knell ? Nay, should a hundred be about her,… |
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Gai Saber $15.03 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:II CORMAC TO STANGERD HE SEES HER FEET O EYE-DECEIT or heart-deceit, Lo there, my blessing or my bane! A lover at a lady’s feet Holding his heart, and there a pain! A lady’s feet, and there a lover: A patch of snow left by the rain Afield, or two tufts of white clover . . . And near beside a young man slain. II HE SEES HER EYES The fire plays with my lady’s eyes, And they make music in my head. The sea-blue bird that flashing flies Like a sword down the river-bed Links the green earth and azure skies; And so with me is Stangerd wed, When light with light is handfasted. b chapter{Section 4III SHE LIES AND LISTENS Now Stangerd lay abed within The house’s inmost sanctuaries, With both her hands between her knees, And them drawn up towards her chin Touching the fulness of her breast; And her wide eyes could get no rest That sought the dark and saw clouds float, Clouds of crimson radiant mist Which gather’d, mass’d and cours’d above her More lovely than the wings of the West. If such wild heart should turn to love her, What love-words would not such a throat Pour for the overwhelming of her! THE WORTH OF HER For all that body’s loveliness I would give Iceland and no less, And all the lands that lie between The land where the sun is never seen And the roaring Western main; And even so I should be fain To search the world for more to give: Yet search I must if I would live. chapter{Section 5v HIS PHILOSOPHY I love a lovely woman—well, And if some other love her—good! All goes toprove my hardihood, All goes her magicry to tell. For say she is a miracle, Say that her beauty is my food, Am I so surly in my mood That what feeds me rings t’other’s knell ? Nay, should a hundred be about her,… |
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Gai Saber $30.48 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:II CORMAC TO STANGERD HE SEES HER FEET O EYE-DECEIT or heart-deceit, Lo there, my blessing or my bane! A lover at a lady’s feet Holding his heart, and there a pain! A lady’s feet, and there a lover: A patch of snow left by the rain Afield, or two tufts of white clover . . . And near beside a young man slain. II HE SEES HER EYES The fire plays with my lady’s eyes, And they make music in my head. The sea-blue bird that flashing flies Like a sword down the river-bed Links the green earth and azure skies; And so with me is Stangerd wed, When light with light is handfasted. b chapter{Section 4III SHE LIES AND LISTENS Now Stangerd lay abed within The house’s inmost sanctuaries, With both her hands between her knees, And them drawn up towards her chin Touching the fulness of her breast; And her wide eyes could get no rest That sought the dark and saw clouds float, Clouds of crimson radiant mist Which gather’d, mass’d and cours’d above her More lovely than the wings of the West. If such wild heart should turn to love her, What love-words would not such a throat Pour for the overwhelming of her! THE WORTH OF HER For all that body’s loveliness I would give Iceland and no less, And all the lands that lie between The land where the sun is never seen And the roaring Western main; And even so I should be fain To search the world for more to give: Yet search I must if I would live. chapter{Section 5v HIS PHILOSOPHY I love a lovely woman—well, And if some other love her—good! All goes toprove my hardihood, All goes her magicry to tell. For say she is a miracle, Say that her beauty is my food, Am I so surly in my mood That what feeds me rings t’other’s knell ? Nay, should a hundred be about her,… |
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Gai Saber: Tales And Songs (1916) $19.09 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:II CORMAC TO STANGERD HE SEES HER FEET O EYE-DECEIT or heart-deceit, Lo there, my blessing or my bane! A lover at a lady’s feet Holding his heart, and there a pain! A lady’s feet, and there a lover: A patch of snow left by the rain Afield, or two tufts of white clover . . . And near beside a young man slain. II HE SEES HER EYES The fire plays with my lady’s eyes, And they make music in my head. The sea-blue bird that flashing flies Like a sword down the river-bed Links the green earth and azure skies; And so with me is Stangerd wed, When light with light is handfasted. b chapter{Section 4III SHE LIES AND LISTENS Now Stangerd lay abed within The house’s inmost sanctuaries, With both her hands between her knees, And them drawn up towards her chin Touching the fulness of her breast; And her wide eyes could get no rest That sought the dark and saw clouds float, Clouds of crimson radiant mist Which gather’d, mass’d and cours’d above her More lovely than the wings of the West. If such wild heart should turn to love her, What love-words would not such a throat Pour for the overwhelming of her! THE WORTH OF HER For all that body’s loveliness I would give Iceland and no less, And all the lands that lie between The land where the sun is never seen And the roaring Western main; And even so I should be fain To search the world for more to give: Yet search I must if I would live. chapter{Section 5v HIS PHILOSOPHY I love a lovely woman—well, And if some other love her—good! All goes toprove my hardihood, All goes her magicry to tell. For say she is a miracle, Say that her beauty is my food, Am I so surly in my mood That what feeds me rings t’other’s knell ? Nay, should a hundred be about her,… |
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Gilbert Massenger, By Holme Lee $20.09 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:DISCIPLINE. i) thorn will do on a bleak moorland waste. Its gnarled branches take many an obstinate twist, which show how it has bent to the prevalent winds, yet still in spring it is richly sheeted with blossoms, whose grace and beauty are all the more conspicuous from the sterility around; and to tired travellers, on the sultry mid-day track, it gives a fragrant, sheltered rest. Gertrude Massenger meant to do her duty by her nephew, as by the rest of the world: her manner of doing it was an error in judgment. She started with the idea that every impulse of his natural heart must be vicious; that he would be prone to lying, and other debasing vices, which would call for sharp correction. The sturdy independence with which the lad early repelled and resented her accusations and suspicions, she considered as a sinful pride that must be chastened out of him: yet the severe measure of her discipline did not succeed in breaking or cowing his high spirit. The battle between them was long and hardly contested; an incident that occurred when Gilbert was about nine years old brought it to a close, and left the victory with him. Miss Massenger had a favourite cat by which she set great store; this cat, for reasons unknown, was very obnoxious to Gilbert. One evening, as the two were sitting down to their frugal tea in the dark, disfurnished parlour which, in her habitual self-mortification, it pleased Miss Massenger to inhabit, puss came trotting in, mewing most piteously, with cockle-shells fastened to his paws. ” You have done this, Gilbert!” cried his aunt. ” No, indeed I did not,” answered the boy sturdily. ” I do not believe you: go away from table; you shall not have a morsel to eat until you confess.” Gilbert moved back his chair without speaking, and resumed |
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Gilbert Massenger, By Holme Lee $32.85 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:DISCIPLINE. i) thorn will do on a bleak moorland waste. Its gnarled branches take many an obstinate twist, which show how it has bent to the prevalent winds, yet still in spring it is richly sheeted with blossoms, whose grace and beauty are all the more conspicuous from the sterility around; and to tired travellers, on the sultry mid-day track, it gives a fragrant, sheltered rest. Gertrude Massenger meant to do her duty by her nephew, as by the rest of the world: her manner of doing it was an error in judgment. She started with the idea that every impulse of his natural heart must be vicious; that he would be prone to lying, and other debasing vices, which would call for sharp correction. The sturdy independence with which the lad early repelled and resented her accusations and suspicions, she considered as a sinful pride that must be chastened out of him: yet the severe measure of her discipline did not succeed in breaking or cowing his high spirit. The battle between them was long and hardly contested; an incident that occurred when Gilbert was about nine years old brought it to a close, and left the victory with him. Miss Massenger had a favourite cat by which she set great store; this cat, for reasons unknown, was very obnoxious to Gilbert. One evening, as the two were sitting down to their frugal tea in the dark, disfurnished parlour which, in her habitual self-mortification, it pleased Miss Massenger to inhabit, puss came trotting in, mewing most piteously, with cockle-shells fastened to his paws. ” You have done this, Gilbert!” cried his aunt. ” No, indeed I did not,” answered the boy sturdily. ” I do not believe you: go away from table; you shall not have a morsel to eat until you confess.” Gilbert moved back his chair without speaking, and resumed |
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Gray Days And Gold $22.08 General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1911Original Publisher: Moffat, Yard and Co.Subjects: Great BritainDrama / ShakespeareLiterary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / ShakespeareTravel / Europe / GeneralTravel / Europe / Great BritainTravel / Museums, Tours, Points of Interest Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free.Excerpt: II. SALISBURY AND STONEHENGE. A Pleasant course, if you would drift from the Channel coast into the Midlands, is to go from Southampton, by either Winchester or, less directly, by Salisbury, to Basingstoke, and thence northward by Reading and Oxford. Another good way is to loiter along the west of England, taking the track of the Cathedral Towns, and viewing whatever of historic interest can be observed in those places and in the memorable regions that environ them. There should be no inexorable route, for the chief charm of travel is liberty to indulge fancy, and, in England, whichever way you turn you will surely find some peculiar beauty to reward your quest. My path traversed Salisbury, Amesbury, Stonehenge, Glaston- bury, Wells, Cheddar, Bristol, Gloucester, Worcester, and Evesham, and all the while it seemed to wind through a fairy realm of flowers and dreams. Each part of England has its charming peculiarities, but the general characteristic of English scenery is loveliness. The cities are theworkshops; the rest is a garden of diversified beauty. As you range through the country you gaze on wooded hills glimmering in the distance, dark or bright beneath skies of cloud or sun, — never one thing long, but changeful, like a capricious girl, whose loveliness is the more |
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