Between the GatesS.C. Griggs, 1883 - 292 páginas |
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Página 45 - The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Página 59 - Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific— and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise— Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Página 46 - Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying.
Página 293 - YOUNGER EDDA, -also called Snorre's Edda, or the Prose Edda. With an Introduction, Notes, Vocabulary and Index. By Prof. RB ANDERSON. Crown 8vo, cloth, $2. " The most complete and literally faithful English version yet produced of Snorre's Edda.
Página 293 - Notes and Queries, London. ANDERSON -NORSE MYTHOLOGY; or, the Religion of our Forefathers. Containing all the Myths of the Eddas carefully systematized and interpreted ; with an Introduction, Vocabulary and Index. By RB ANDERSON, Prof, of Scandinavian Languages in the Univ. of Wisconsin. Crown 8vo, cloth, $2.50 ; half calf, $4.00. " Prof. Anderson's work is incomparably superior to the already existing books of this order.
Página 293 - ANDERSON -VIKING TALES OF THE NORTH. The Sagas of Thorstein, Viking's Son and Fridthjof the Bold. Translated from the Icelandic by Prof. RB ANDERSON ; also TEGNER'S FRIDTHJOF'S SAGA, translated by GEORGE STEPHENS. One vol. Cloth, $2. " Prof. Anderson's book is a very valuable and important one.
Página 122 - Thro' the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day: Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.