Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still. Demonology and Devil-lore - Seite 229von Moncure Daniel Conway - 1879Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| G.W. Carleton & Co - 1878 - 360 Seiten
...a perfect man Commands all light, all influence, all fate, Nothing to him falls early, or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still. FLETCHER, Upon, an Honest Man's Fortune. — MAN is one world, and hath another to attend him. GEO.... | |
| Moncure Daniel Conway - 1879 - 456 Seiten
...— The Brood of Midnight — Second-Sight—Spectres of Souter Fell — The Moonshine Vampyre — Glamour — Glam and Grettir — A Story of Dartmoor....believing that every man has two spirits. One is his shadow, which goes to Hades ; the other is his image as reflected in water, and it is supposed to stay... | |
| Maria J. Greer - 1879 - 390 Seiten
...experience will teach us to recognise the bliss of ignorance. CHAPTER XI. THE VISION ON THE STAIRCASE. " Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still." FLETCHER. MY longing, nevertheless, was not to be so speedily gratified as I had thought. My mother... | |
| John Addington Symonds - 1879 - 428 Seiten
...perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate ; Nothing to him falls early or too late ; Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still. What to the vulgar apprehension appears like doom, and to the theologian like the direct interposition... | |
| James Jackson Wray - 1879 - 406 Seiten
...guard yourself? Your looking-glass will give you a very fair likeness of his face." — Whately. " Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still." Beaumont and Fletcher. ^FTER giving expression to the very candid opinion of himself recorded in the... | |
| Joseph Samuel Exell - 1879 - 632 Seiten
...what others make us — the victims of our feara or folliei, our lusts or lingerings after evil. " Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us etilL" — Biaumont. Rétribution! Vers. 2-8. (1.) Yea, they were rebels taken red-handed iu revolt... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 536 Seiten
...perfect man. Commands all light, all influence, all fate ; Nothing to him falls early or too late; Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.' These are fine lines, and there are others in the poem as good ; yet we should hardly be willing to... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 524 Seiten
...perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate ; Nothing to him falls early or too late ; Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.' These are fine lines, and there are others in the poem as good ; yet we should hardly be willing to... | |
| John McClintock - 1880 - 1100 Seiten
...performing good actions exclusively to the individual agent. Hence the sentiment of the lines, "Our nets our angels are, or good or ill. Our fatal shadows that walk by us still,^" would express that portion of truth on which the Sad1 ducees, in inflicting punishments, would dwell... | |
| John McClintock - 1880 - 1106 Seiten
...performing good actions exclusively to the individual agent. Hence the sentiment of the lines, "Our nets our angels are, or good or ill. Our fatal shadows that walk by as still," would express that portion of truth on which t he Sadduuees, in inflicting punishments,... | |
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