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#Beowulf Seamus Heaney (2661-8) #APSTogether
[Wiglaf goes to Beowulf's aid]
1/ Then he waded the dangerous reek and went
under arms to his lord, saying only:
"Go on, dear Beowulf, do everything
you said you when you were still young,
#Beowulf Seamus Heaney (1473-81) #APSTogether
1/ Beowulf, son of Ecgtheow, spoke:
Wisest of kings, now I have come
to the point of action, I ask you to recall
what we said earlier: that you, son of Halfdane
SEAMUS HEANEY, #Beowulf (1001-7) #APSTogether
But death is not easily
escaped from by anyone:
all of us with souls, earth-dwellers
and children of men, must make our way
to a destination already ordained
where the body, after the banqueting,
sleeps on its deathbed.
#Beowulf Seamus Heaney (361-70) #APSTogether
(1/2)
"People from Geatland have put ashore.
They have sailed far over the wide sea.
They call the chief in charge of their band
by the name of Beowulf. They beg, my lord,
an audience with you, exchange of words
#Beowulf Seamus Heaney (81-5) #APSTogether
The hall towered,
its gables wide and high and awaiting
a barbarous burning. That doom abided,
bit in time it would come: the killer instinct
unleashed among inlaws, the blood-lust rampant.
Night, dears. Began slow reading Dickensโ Bleak House with #APStogether 48 days ago, turned last page today. Slow reads give you time to โread writing.โ A great English mystery novel. Dickens visited EA Poe on his tour of the US. 1/2
#Dickens Bleak House C67 #APSTogether
We are not rich in the bank, but we have always prospered, and we have quite enough. I never walk out with my husband, but I hear the people bless him. I never go into a house of any degree, but I hear his praises, or see them in grateful eyes. I never lie down at night, but I know that in the course of that day he has alleviated the pain, and soothed some fellow-creature in the time of need. I know that from the beds of those who were past recovery, thanks have often, often gone up, in the last hour for his patient ministration. Is not this to be rich?
#Dickens Bleak House C64 #APSTogether
'Now, sir,' said Mr. Guppy, 'I have got into that state of mind myself that I wish for a reciprocity of magnanimous behaviour. I wish to prove to Miss Summerson that I can rise to a heighth of which perhaps she hardly thought me capable. I find that the image which I did suppose had been eradicated from my 'eart is not eradicated. Its influence over me is still tremenjous, and yielding to it, I am willing to overlook the circumstances over which none of us have had any control and to renew those proposals to Miss Summerson which I had the honour to make at a former period. I beg to lay the 'ouse in Walcot Square, the business, and myself before Miss Summerson for her acceptance.'
โVery magnanimous indeed, sir,' observed my guardian.
#Dickens Bleak House C61 #APSTogether
'Heaven knows, beloved of my life,' said he, 'that my praise is not a lover's praise, but the truth. You do not know what all around you see in Esther Summerson, how many hearts she touches and awakens, what sacred admiration and what love she wins.'
#Dickens Bleak House C60 #APSTogether
I could not help adding, 'So unreasonably!'
'Ah, Dame Trot, Dame Trot,' returned my guardian, 'what shall we find reasonable in Jarndyce and Jarndyce! Unreason and injustice at the top, unreason and injustice at the heart and at the bottom, unreason and injustice from beginning to end โ if it ever has an end โ how should poor Rick, always hovering near it, pluck reason out of it? He no more gathers grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles, than older men did, in old times.'
#Dickens Bleak House C59 #APSTogether
I saw, but did not comprehend, the solemn and compassionate look in Mr Woodcourt's face. I saw, but did not comprehend, his touching the other on the breast to keep him back. I saw him stand uncovered in the bitter air, with a reverence for something. But my understanding for all this was gone.
I even heard it said between them:
'Shall she go?'
'She had better go. Her hands should be the first to touch her. They have a higher right than ours.'
I passed on to the gate, and stooped down. I lifted the heavy head, put the long dank hair aside, and turned the face. And it was my mother, cold and dead.
#Dickens Bleak House C57 #APSTogether
Clattering and clattering through the empty streets, we came at length from the pavement on to dark smooth roads, and began to leave the houses behind us. After a while, I recognized the familiar way to Saint Albans. At Barnet, fresh horses were ready for us, and we changed and went on. It was very cold indeed; and the open country was white with snow, though none was falling then.
#Dickens Bleak House C56 #APSTogether
Where is she? Living or dead, where is she? If, as he folds the handkerchief and carefully puts it up, it were able, with an enchanted power, to bring before him the place where she found it, and the night-landscape near the cottage where it covered the little child, would he descry her there? On the waste, where the brick-kilns are burning with a pale blue flare; where the straw-roofs of the wretched huts in which the bricks are made, are being scattered by the wind; where the clay and water are hard frozen, and the mill in which the gaunt blind horse goes round all day, looks like an instrument of human torture;โtraversing this deserted, blighted spot, there is a lonely figure with the sad world to itself, pelted by the snow and driven by the wind, and cast out, it would seem, from all companionship. It is the figure of a woman, too; but it is miserably dressed, and no such clothes ever came through the hall, and out at the great door, of the Dedlock mansion.
#Dickens Bleak House C53 #APSTogether
She scarcely makes a stop, and sweeps upstairs alone. Mr Bucket, moving towards the staircase-foot, watches her as she goes up the steps the old man came down to his grave; past murderous groups of statuary, repeated with their shadowy weapons on the wall; past the printed bill, which she looks at going by; out of view.
#Dickens Bleak House C48 #APSTogether
'I beg your pardon, Lady Dedlock. Will you allow me to retire?'
With a look that plainly says, 'You know you have the power to remain if you will,' she tells him it is not necessary and moves towards a chair. Mr Tulkinghorn brings it a little forward for her with his clumsy bow, and retires into a window opposite. Interposed between her and the fading light of day in the now quiet street, his shadow falls upon her, and he darkens all before her. Even so does he darken her life.
#Dickens Bleak House C47 #APSTogether
The light is come upon the dark benighted way. Dead!
Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us, every day.
#Dickens Bleak House C44 #APSTogether
I put my two arms round his neck and kissed him; and he said was this the mistress of Bleak House; and I said yes; and it made no difference presently, and we all went out together, and I said nothing to my precious pet about it.
#Dickens Bleak House C42 #APSTogether
Mr Tulkinghorn rubs his head with the key, while she entertains herself with a sarcastic laugh.
'You must be rich, my fair friend,' he composedly observes, 'to throw money about in that way!'
[Mademoiselle Hortense] 'I am rich,' she returns, 'I am very rich in hate. I hate my Lady, of all my heart.'
#Dickens Bleak House C41 #APSTogether
[Mr Tulkinghorn] 'Your flight, Lady Dedlock, would spread the whole truth, and a hundred times the whole truth, far and wide. It would be impossible to save the family credit for a day. It is not to be thought of.'
#Dickens Bleak House C40 #APSTogether
But the fire of the sun is dying. Even now the floor is dusky, and shadow slowly mounts the walls, bringing the Dedlocks down like age and death. And now, upon my Lady's picture over the great chimney-piece, a weird shade falls from some old tree, that turns it pale, and flutters it, and looks as if a great arm held a veil or hood, watching an opportunity to draw it over her. Higher and darker rises shadow on the wall โ now a red gloom on the ceiling โ now the fire is out.
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