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I understand that the US edition does not have the quotes which head all but one of the chapters in the UK edition. having typed these out for the Child lit list, I thought some of you might be interested. Ch 1 ...While the beasts of prey, come from caverns deep, viewed the maid asleep ... William Blake Ch 2 Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up. Book of Job Ch 3 The knight's bones are dust, and his good sword rust;- his soul is with the saints, I trust. Coleridge Ch 4 She lay as if at play - her life had leaped away - intending to return - but not too soon - Emily Dickinson Ch 5 ... with ambitious aim against the throne and monarchy of God rais'd impious war in heav'n and battel proud. Milton Ch 6 Reliques, beads, indulgences, dispenses, pardons, bulls, the sport of winds ... Milton Ch 7 Last rose as in dance the stately trees, and spred thir branches hung with copious fruit... Milton Ch 8 I have been a stranger in strange land. Exodus Ch 9 ... a shade upon the mind there passes as when on noon a cloud the mighty sun encloses ... Emily Dickinson Ch 10 There ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. 1 Kings Ch 11 A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent - William Blake Ch 12 Still as he fled, his eye was backward cast, as if his fear still followed him behind. Edmund Spenser Ch 13 Frowning, frowning night o'er this desart bright let thy moon arise while I close my eyes. WB Ch 14 Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base. John Ruskin Ch 15 As I was waliking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of genius ... WB Ch 16 From the arched roof pendant by suttle magic many a row of starry lamps and blazing cressets fed with naptha and asphaltus yeilded light John Milton Ch 17 Now the serpent was more subtil than the beast of the field which the Lord God had made. Genesis Ch 18 O that it were possible we might but hold some two days' conference with the dead ... John Webster Ch 19 I was angry with my friend; I told my wrath, my wrath did end. WB Ch 20 - I gained it so - by climbing slow - by catching at the twigs that grow between the bliss - and me - Emily Dickinson Ch 21 I hate things all fiction ... there should always be some foundation of fact ... Byron Ch 22 Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks in Vallonbrosa, where the Etrurian shades high overarch't imbowr ... John Milton Ch 23 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free - St John Ch 24 As is the mother, so is her daughter. Ezekiel Ch 25 A bracelet of bright hair about the bone ... John Donne Ch 26 The sun has left his blackness and has found a fresher morning, and the fair moon rejoices in the clear and cloudless night ... WB Ch 27 My soul into the boughs does glide: there like a bird it sits, and sings, then whets, and combs its silver wings ... Andrew Marvell Ch 28 For many a time I have been half in love with easeful death ...John Keats Ch 29 Each man is in his spectre's power untill the arrival of that hour when his humanity awake ... WB Ch 30 Far off th'empyreal heaven, extended wide in circuit, undetermined square or round with opal towers and battlements adorn'd of living saphire ... JM Ch 31 For empire is no more, and now the lion and wolf shall cease. WB Ch 32 The morning comes, the night decays, the watchmen leave their stations ... WB Ch 33 Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie. George Herbert Ch 34 Shew you all alive the world, where every particle of dust breathes forth its joy. WB Ch 35 The birthday of my life is come, my love is come to me. Christina Rossetti Ch 36 But fate does iron wedges drive, and alwies crouds it self betwixt. Andrew Marvell Ch 37 My soul, do not seek eternal life, but exhaust the realm of the possible. Pindar Ch 38 No quote, but a drawing of interlinked roses The quotes are written as woodcuts, small blocks about an inch or so square, with the type all in caps. Perhaps reminiscent of Arts and Crafts books? EB -- ------------------------------------------------------- Elizabeth Bentley Head of Learning Resources Northbrook C of E School Taunton Road Lee, London SE12 8PD e-mail (school): info@northbrook.lewisham.sch.uk reply to e-mail: elizabeth@wardrobe.dircon.co.uk Tel: (+44) 020 8852 1563 Fax: (+44) 020 8244 4590 ICQ: 11252617 ------------------------------------------------------- School Librarians Network is a forum where UK school librarians (and MROs and support staff) can exchange news, views and ideas and give each other mutual support. 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