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I never could understand why he took to play-writing. He wagged his head, gazing regretfully into the fire, and added, 'Such a clever fellow, too! Whistler, though alive and about, was already looked to as a hierarch by the young. Not so had he been looked to by Rossetti.
As the night deepened, that wave of light rippled and glittered until the handsome features in the picture seemed to belong to some hierarch who peeped from a window of heaven, into a world drenched with unlifting darkness.
Summoning all the patience at his command, he recounted the events in the apartments of the ancient hierarch of Amen. "There were two Scrolls," he explained; "one to the Servant of Ra at On, the other to Atsu. The holy father sealed them both before he addressed them and confused the directions.
But on such matters as that to which the female hierarch of Littlebath was now alluding, Miss Mackenzie was not by nature adapted to be submissive. "Is there anything between you and Mr Maguire?" said Mrs Stumfold again. "I particularly wish to have a plain answer to that question." Miss Mackenzie, as I have said, became very red in the face.
George's, Hanover Square, and would never consent to have the ceremony performed by lees than two bishops; even though the part of one hierarch had to be represented by the nursery hearth-broom. In due course Lady Jane Umleigh made her début in society, in all the bloom and freshness of her stately Saxon beauty. Her handsome daughter had not sent her arrow home to the gold.
We are wont to love the Hog chiefly in the form of Ham; yet did not these bristly thick-skinned beings here manifest intelligence, perhaps humor of character; at any rate, a touching, trustful submissiveness to Man, who, were he but a Swineherd, in darned gabardine, and leather breeches more resembling slate or discolored-tin breeches, is still the Hierarch of this lower world?"
What is now left of Saint Michael, the glittering hierarch? Can he still endure the light of sun? Or has he not shrivelled into a spectral Hermes, a grisly psychopomp, bowing his head in minished glory, and leading men's souls no longer aloft but downwards down to the pale regions of things that have been?
The old hierarch, who had been nervously rubbing the arm of his chair during the last of the prince's speech, broke the dead silence with an awed whisper. "Ah, then spake the Incomparable Pharaoh!" Meneptah put out his hand, smiling. "No more. The way is shown, I follow, O my Rameses!" Osiris the great god of Egypt, was overcome by Set, his body divided and scattered over the valley of the Nile.
The starry flower, the flower-like stars that fade And brighten with the daylight and the dark, The bluet in the green I faintly mark, And glimmering crags with laurel overlaid, Even to the Lord of light, the Lamp of shade, Shine one to me, the least still glorious made As crownèd moon or heaven's great hierarch.
Undevout in the ordinary sense, I mean, for I had already counted twenty-seven varieties of religious conviction, including three Buddhists, a Celestial Hierarch, five Latter-day Saints, and about ten varieties of Mystic whose names I could never remember. The hall had been the gift of the publisher I have spoken of, and twice a week it was used for lectures and debates.
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