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"May I have him, Father?" Johnnie asked quickly. "I'd like him for a pet." Tommy Fox was terribly frightened when he heard that. You see, he didn't know what a "pet" was. He thought that probably it was something like a stew, for he had been told that people ate things like that; and he could see himself, in his mind's eye, being cut up and tossed into a pot. "A pet, eh?" said Farmer Green.
Did he understand? There is ever in the mind's eye a certain wilfulness. We see and understand; we see and won't understand. "Tell me why you passed by her as you did this afternoon," he said gravely: and in the same voice Richard answered: "I passed her because I could not do otherwise." "Your wife, Richard?" "Yes! my wife!" "If she had seen you, Richard?" "God spared her that!" Mrs.
In her mind's eye she saw Aunt Phoebe living on alone, unloving and unloved, to a lonesome old age. Again she saw the cedar chest with its pathetic wedding garments. Again the words of the fire song came into her mind. "Do I have to go to Aunt Grace's?" she asked. "Not unless you want to," said her aunt, wondering. "Then I think I'd rather stay with you," said Hinpoha.
Truly, the din of many-voiced Life, which, in this solitude, with the mind's organ, I could hear, was no longer a maddening discord, but a melting one; like inarticulate cries, and sobbings of a dumb creature, which in the ear of Heaven are prayers.
To this day, her mind's eye called up a great white marble palace, something like the New York Public Library, only bigger, from the front of which, through an enormous cornucopia, poured a ceaseless flood of golden dollars.... "I've no patience with Socialism," said Mrs. Heth, rising. "Where do you want your things put, Willie?
The Philoctetes and the Hercules are among the exceptions that prove the rule. XII. Another drawback to our admiration of the Philoctetes is in the comparison it involuntarily courts with the Prometheus of Aeschylus. Both are examples of fortitude under suffering of the mind's conflict with its fate. In either play a dreary waste, a savage solitude, constitute the scene.
But when you began to make some statement to him, it was positively alarming to see him look you full in the face, and listen with inconceivable fixedness of attention to all you said. You could not help feeling that really the small remark you had to make was not worth that great mind's grasping it so intently, as he might have grasped an argument by Follett.
Let us go to the Codfish: here you see is the forearm, in this large pectoral fin carrying your mind's eye onward from the flapper of the Porpoise. And here you have the hinder limbs restored in the shape of these ventral fins. If I were to make a transverse section of this, I should find just the same organs that we have before noticed.
Day and night that appalling future stared him in the face. Day and night the picture of himself working in chains, pointed out, stared at, was before his mind's eyes. By day it obtruded between him and the face of any visitor that might be with him.
He uses the veil to typify man's concealment of himself from others, even the nearest; and while it visibly isolates the minister among his fellow-men, it finally unites him with them in a single lot; for to the mind's eye, educated by this image to a new power of seeing, all men wear this veil; humanity is clothed with it in life, and moulders away beneath it in the grave, whither its secrets are carried.
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