Pen Sketches by a Vanished Hand: From the Papers of the Late Mortimer Collins, Volumen1R. Bentley and son, 1879 |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 26
Página xviii
... Berkshire cottage , we saw the man in his true element , and we ourselves learnt from him to love that true life rather than the brilliant artificial one which we had previously known . And it was easy to see what had caused the ...
... Berkshire cottage , we saw the man in his true element , and we ourselves learnt from him to love that true life rather than the brilliant artificial one which we had previously known . And it was easy to see what had caused the ...
Página xix
... Berkshire . Not that he became con- ventional in any way , but Bohemia proper is not in the country . The brilliant talker , the wandering tavern - fre- quenter , the careless , reckless man , had settled down into the steady husband ...
... Berkshire . Not that he became con- ventional in any way , but Bohemia proper is not in the country . The brilliant talker , the wandering tavern - fre- quenter , the careless , reckless man , had settled down into the steady husband ...
Página 1
... Berkshire really means Bare - Oak - Shire , thus styled either because the oak - bark used by tanners in pre - chemical days came largely from the county , or because its inhabitants have a great fancy for making a " bare oak " the ...
... Berkshire really means Bare - Oak - Shire , thus styled either because the oak - bark used by tanners in pre - chemical days came largely from the county , or because its inhabitants have a great fancy for making a " bare oak " the ...
Página 2
... Berkshire . What would not a tour in Warwick- shire in Shakespeare's days be worth now ? Well , a couple of centuries hence our posterity will be far more interested in the England than in the Italy or Egypt of 1863. Ay , and they will ...
... Berkshire . What would not a tour in Warwick- shire in Shakespeare's days be worth now ? Well , a couple of centuries hence our posterity will be far more interested in the England than in the Italy or Egypt of 1863. Ay , and they will ...
Página 3
... Berkshire White Horse . For travel in England , there is certainly no way like walking . The railway sets you down at any point at which you choose to commence ; and thereafter you are perfectly independent . Nor , on the whole , is any ...
... Berkshire White Horse . For travel in England , there is certainly no way like walking . The railway sets you down at any point at which you choose to commence ; and thereafter you are perfectly independent . Nor , on the whole , is any ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
Abbey Amersham amid ancient Avon Aylesbury backsword Bath beautiful Berkshire Bishop Bledlow brilliant Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnham Beeches Cæsar called Castle cathedral Catullus centuries charming Chinnor church Coningsby cottage cross delicious delight dine dinner divine Duke Earl East Ilsley England English epigram Eton exquisite famous fellows forest gardens gentleman green Guy's Cliff Hampden Henley hill Horace hostelry John Hampden King Kingston Lisle ladies lawn Lechlade lived London look Lord lyrical Magdalen Maidenhead Matthew Arnold mighty miles morning Mortimer Collins never noble Oxford park pass picturesque pleasant poem poet poetic poetry pretty Prince quaint railway Reigate river road Roman Salisbury seems Southampton spire stone Street summer Thames Theodore Hook tower town traveller trees verse village walk Warwick whitebait Wiltshire Windsor wine wonder woods write wrote young
Pasajes populares
Página 156 - My good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance thrusteth sure, My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.
Página 188 - Thus this brook has conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean; and thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over.
Página 250 - Out upon it, I have loved Three whole days together! And am like to love three more. If it prove fair weather. Time shall moult away his wings Ere he shall discover In the whole wide world again Such a constant lover. But the spite on 't is, no praise Is due at all to me: Love with me had made no stays.
Página 154 - Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly ; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.
Página 58 - Here thou, great ANNA ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea.
Página 248 - In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow ; Hast so much wit, and mirth, and spleen about thee, There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
Página 87 - And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection, — to beauty, in a word, which is only truth seen from another side?
Página 33 - A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses.
Página 140 - RED o'er the forest peers the setting sun. The line of yellow light dies fast away That crowned the eastern copse : and chill and dun Falls on the moor the brief November day.
Página 230 - Thou printest all — and sellest some — My Murray. Upon thy table's baize so green The last new Quarterly is seen, — But where is thy new Magazine, My Murray ? Along thy sprucest bookshelves shine The works thou deemest most divine — The " Art of Cookery,