Pen Sketches by a Vanished Hand: From the Papers of the Late Mortimer Collins, Volumen1R. Bentley and son, 1879 |
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... brings to a manly and poetic mind the same pleasure - but in a higher degree as that produced by a summer landscape with emerald grass and translucent water , and birds in full song amid the airy branches of the trees . The hot amorist ...
... brings to a manly and poetic mind the same pleasure - but in a higher degree as that produced by a summer landscape with emerald grass and translucent water , and birds in full song amid the airy branches of the trees . The hot amorist ...
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... bring from town a friend from White's or Brooks's who dwells within the pale of exclusive society , and who will , like Theodore Hook , know a man in the country whom he couldn't possibly know in London . After that you are safe . The ...
... bring from town a friend from White's or Brooks's who dwells within the pale of exclusive society , and who will , like Theodore Hook , know a man in the country whom he couldn't possibly know in London . After that you are safe . The ...
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... bring you a crowd where you desire solitude , you may be forgiven for railing a little . And Stonehenge , to realise its grandeur , should be seen in solitude . should like to be there alone at sunrise , or in the midst of a great ...
... bring you a crowd where you desire solitude , you may be forgiven for railing a little . And Stonehenge , to realise its grandeur , should be seen in solitude . should like to be there alone at sunrise , or in the midst of a great ...
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... be in the town at the time , for assistance in this perplexity , he and I being old ac- quaintances . It would have been rather fine to extinguish SCHOOL REMINISCENCES . 37 the dubious landlord by bringing down 36 A WALK THROUGH WILTS .
... be in the town at the time , for assistance in this perplexity , he and I being old ac- quaintances . It would have been rather fine to extinguish SCHOOL REMINISCENCES . 37 the dubious landlord by bringing down 36 A WALK THROUGH WILTS .
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... bringing down upon him the worthy baronet , who is despot in that Wiltshire town . But it was late - ten o'clock , or a little after : Sir Massey might have a dinner - party ; so we trusted to our own resources , and got very ...
... bringing down upon him the worthy baronet , who is despot in that Wiltshire town . But it was late - ten o'clock , or a little after : Sir Massey might have a dinner - party ; so we trusted to our own resources , and got very ...
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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
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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,