"Merton" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... thought of Hetty Merton, he began to wonder if the portrait in the locked room had changed. Surely it was not still so horrible as it had been? Perhaps if his life became pure, he would be able to expel every sign of evil passion from the face. Perhaps the signs of evil had already gone away. He would ...
— The Picture of Dorian Gray • Oscar Wilde
... There is no witchery of Homer so fascinating as this; and did any one suppose that it could ever be caught by any translator? And could it ever have been caught had not Nature in one of her happiest moods bethought herself of evolving, in a late and empty day, the industrious tapestry weaver of Merton and idle singer of ‘Sigurd,’ ‘The Earthly Paradise,’ ‘Love is Enough,’ and ten thousand ...
— Old Familiar Faces • Theodore Watts-Dunton
... tree I begin to see, cowering among the leaves— it may be born of turkey, or of pudding, or mince pie, or of these many fancies, jumbled with Robinson Crusoe on his desert island, Philip Quarll among the monkeys, Sandford and Merton with Mr. Barlow, Mother Bunch, and the Mask—or it may be the result of indigestion, assisted by imagination and over-doctoring—a prodigious nightmare. It is so exceedingly indistinct, that I don't know why it's frightful—but I know it is. I can ...
— Some Christmas Stories • Charles Dickens
... sentence of the king condemned the Jews of Oxford to erect a cross of marble on the spot where the crime was committed; but even this was remitted in part, and a less offensive place was allotted for the cross in an open plot by Merton College. ...
— Stray Studies from England and Italy • John Richard Green
... was left there the other day by old Mrs. Merton," said Reka. "The dog is her son's terrier; ...
— The Nursery, September 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 3 • Various
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