The FountainThe text is a novel set in Holland during the first World War. The main characters are a British officer, a Dutch aristocrat and his British stepdaughter who is married to a German officer. It was a winner of the 1932 Hawthornden Prize. |
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Page 69
... hear no voice . I am like a tree in which the sap does not rise . And he began to ask himself , as he had asked many times , by what discipline he might attain to that stillness which should enable him to hear and to that brilliance of ...
... hear no voice . I am like a tree in which the sap does not rise . And he began to ask himself , as he had asked many times , by what discipline he might attain to that stillness which should enable him to hear and to that brilliance of ...
Page 204
... hear music , not the whisper of her own solitary clavichord , but the sparkle of a harpsichord or the brilliance of violins . She would have liked to dance for long hours by candle - light , and in the morning , when she was tired ...
... hear music , not the whisper of her own solitary clavichord , but the sparkle of a harpsichord or the brilliance of violins . She would have liked to dance for long hours by candle - light , and in the morning , when she was tired ...
Page 211
... hear and feel the growth of natural things ; your finger seems to lie on the pulse of earth herself . Often I went into the graveyard at Chepping when I was a boy , for I thought : Not this man or that woman , as they were in life ...
... hear and feel the growth of natural things ; your finger seems to lie on the pulse of earth herself . Often I went into the graveyard at Chepping when I was a boy , for I thought : Not this man or that woman , as they were in life ...
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