Shelburne Essays, Volumen4G. P. Putnam's sons, 1906 - 283 páginas |
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... least his writings , long before Mr. Baring- Gould made him a subject of romance , had at- tained an anomalous celebrity . One of his curi- ous methods of reaching the public was to print off a poem in the form of leaflet , which he ...
... least his writings , long before Mr. Baring- Gould made him a subject of romance , had at- tained an anomalous celebrity . One of his curi- ous methods of reaching the public was to print off a poem in the form of leaflet , which he ...
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... least it is one which I shall never again forget . The Bard is a handsome well - formed man and tall , more like a Spaniard than an Englishman -black , long elflocks all round his face , mid which his eyes not only shine but glare . His ...
... least it is one which I shall never again forget . The Bard is a handsome well - formed man and tall , more like a Spaniard than an Englishman -black , long elflocks all round his face , mid which his eyes not only shine but glare . His ...
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... least , but let a man beware how he shows surprise and , above al ' , let him avoid comment ; for our mild- looking parson has a nimble wit and a cutting tongue . More than one patronising stranger has departed from this provincial nook ...
... least , but let a man beware how he shows surprise and , above al ' , let him avoid comment ; for our mild- looking parson has a nimble wit and a cutting tongue . More than one patronising stranger has departed from this provincial nook ...
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... least religious of poets said it , Et sunt commercia cali ? 1 1 In the year 1895 Lionel Johnson wrote this sonnet on Hawker of Morwenstow , alluding to his death - bed conversion and to his visionary life : In other matters his ...
... least religious of poets said it , Et sunt commercia cali ? 1 1 In the year 1895 Lionel Johnson wrote this sonnet on Hawker of Morwenstow , alluding to his death - bed conversion and to his visionary life : In other matters his ...
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... least cherished , derives its weight and signifi- cance from what we know of the poet's own character and of his philosophy . It is the voice of the High Priest of Nature to which we are lis- tening , and behind his words is the ...
... least cherished , derives its weight and signifi- cance from what we know of the poet's own character and of his philosophy . It is the voice of the High Priest of Nature to which we are lis- tening , and behind his words is the ...
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Página 247 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds ; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistening with dew ; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild...
Página 97 - Sweet Rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet Spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My Music shows ye have your closes, And all must die. Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like season'd timber, never gives ; But though the whole world turn to coal, Then chiefly lives.
Página 120 - Bright Star! would I were steadfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores...
Página 200 - Fear death? — to feel the fog in my throat, The mist in my face, When the snows begin, and the blasts denote I am nearing the place, The power of the night, the press of the storm, The post of the foe; Where he stands, the Arch Fear in a visible form, Yet the strong man must go...
Página 117 - Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endeared, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone...
Página 200 - And bade me creep past. No ! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness and cold. 242 For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements...
Página 139 - I have said he, often and often in the course of the Session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the President without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting: But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting Sun.
Página 211 - Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later delicate death. Prais'd be the fathomless universe, For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, And for love, sweet love — but praise! praise! praise! For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death.
Página 213 - In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare seize the fire? And what shoulder, and what art, Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand? and what dread feet? What the hammer? what the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? what dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
Página 227 - To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of Man: And they that creep, and they that fly Shall end where they began. Alike the busy and the gay But flutter thro...