My Head! My Head!: Being the History of Elisha and the Shunamite Woman; with the History of Moses as Elisha Related It, and Her Questions Put to HimM. Secker, 1925 - 141 pages |
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My Head! My Head!: Being the History of Elisha and the Shunamite Woman; with ... Robert Graves Affichage du livre entier - 1925 |
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Page 122 - And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face, in all the signs and the wonders, which the Lord sent him to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land, and in all that mighty hand, and in all the great terror which Moses shewed in the sight of all Israel.
Page 14 - But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
Page 17 - Jesus was sitting in Moses' Chair, They brought the trembling Woman There. Moses commands she be stoned to death, What was the sound of Jesus' breath? He laid His hand on Moses...
Page 16 - That the first beginning of Religioun was only to keep men in awe. That it was an easy matter for Moyses being brought vp in all the 'artes of the Egiptians to abuse the Jewes being a rude & grosse people.
Page 101 - Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men that were upon the face of the earth.
Page 24 - O, what a furnace roaring in his blood Thawed my congealed sinews and tingled my own Raging through me like a strong cordial. He spoke! Since yesterday Am I not larger grown? I've seen men hugely shapen in soul, Of such unhuman...
Page 25 - Yesterday as I lay nigh dead with toil Underneath the hurtling crane oiled with our blood Thinking to end all and let the crane crush me He came by and bore me into the shade...
Page 25 - Come knead the hills and ocean into food, There is none for him. The streaming vigours of his. blood erupting From his halt tongue are like an anger thrust Out of a madman's piteous craving for A monstrous baulked perfection.
Page 17 - Heaven above Trembled at discovery of Love Jesus was sitting in Moses Chair They brought the trembling Woman There Moses commands she be stoned to death What was the sound of Jesus breath He laid His hand on Moses...
Page 52 - Woman is not of the gods, and man is her ruler.' Thus the mother lost her rule in the family and the father assumed it easily, for he was of greater bodily strength. This was the beginning of our present misery when woman was despised and put in subje&ion to man ; but another sort of evil, let us confess, went with the former way of mother-right.