Part 58 (1/2)
My Brother's Keeper. 22 T.J.
”If not in word only, but in face of truth, he undoes the deed of Cain and becomes truly his brother's keeper.”
--_Ruskin, The Schools of Art in Florence_.
My Cup Runneth Over. 35 S.A.
”Through this concession my full cup runs o'er.”
--_Browning, The Ring and the Book_.
My Name is Legion. 139 L.J.
”Does Legion still lurk in him, though repressed; or has he exorcised that Devil's Brood?”
--_Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book II, Chapter 8_.
Noah's Ark. 24 T.J.
”n.o.bler is a limited command Given by the love of all your native land, Than a successive t.i.tle, long and dark, Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's ark.”
--_Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel_.
The n.o.bleman's Son. 92 L.J.
”We do not need Christ's visible presence to cope with the evils of our times any more than the father needed it for the cure of his boy.”
--_Wm. M. Taylor_.
Now through a Gla.s.s Darkly, then Face to Face. 425 S.A.
”I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crost the bar.”
--_Tennyson, Crossing the Bar_.
O Generation of Vipers. 65 L.J.
”Is love a generation of vipers?”
--_Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida 3:1_.
The Olive Leaf. 30 T.J.
”One final deluge to surprise the Ark Cradled and sleeping on its mountain-top: Their outbreak-signal--what but the dove's coo, Back with the olive in her bill for news Sorrow was over?”
--_Browning, The Ring and the Book_.
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Out of the Mouth of Babes and Sucklings 22 S.A., 237 L.J.
”He that of greatest works is finisher Oft does them by the weakest minister: So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown.”
--_Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well 2:1_.
The Pale Horse. 470 S.A.
”Behind her Death, Close following pace for pace, not mounted yet On his pale horse.”
--_Milton, Paradise Lost_.