Shelburne Essays, Volumen4G. P. Putnam's sons, 1906 - 283 páginas |
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... tion . Too often only the lifeless bodies came to his hands , but these at least he saved from dese- cration and buried with decent ceremony . There had been more than one Mawgan in his parish . Just before Hawker's time a stranger ...
... tion . Too often only the lifeless bodies came to his hands , but these at least he saved from dese- cration and buried with decent ceremony . There had been more than one Mawgan in his parish . Just before Hawker's time a stranger ...
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... tion . It was the custom then for a holy man to choose some bit of land , or llan , and there fast and pray for forty days as a sign of possession . After that the sacred precinct was his forever ; he did not pass away , but abode as ...
... tion . It was the custom then for a holy man to choose some bit of land , or llan , and there fast and pray for forty days as a sign of possession . After that the sacred precinct was his forever ; he did not pass away , but abode as ...
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... tion : They had their lodges in the wilderness , Or built them cells beside the shadowy sea , And there they dwelt with angels , like a dream : So they unroll'd the volume of the Book , And fill'd the fields of the Evangelist With ...
... tion : They had their lodges in the wilderness , Or built them cells beside the shadowy sea , And there they dwelt with angels , like a dream : So they unroll'd the volume of the Book , And fill'd the fields of the Evangelist With ...
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... tion , if only to learn how the poetic pleasure may vary in kind as well as in degree ; the two poems are a notable illustration of that distinction be- tween the essential and the contingent . So far , indeed , is Tennyson's rhapsody ...
... tion , if only to learn how the poetic pleasure may vary in kind as well as in degree ; the two poems are a notable illustration of that distinction be- tween the essential and the contingent . So far , indeed , is Tennyson's rhapsody ...
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... tion . It is not necessary to explain once more how vividly the scenes of that poem reproduce in imagination the particular land in which the poet dwelt , and how perfectly its theme blends to- gether the legendary exploits of King ...
... tion . It is not necessary to explain once more how vividly the scenes of that poem reproduce in imagination the particular land in which the poet dwelt , and how perfectly its theme blends to- gether the legendary exploits of King ...
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Página 227 - 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 98 - Melancholy has her sovran shrine, Though seen of none save him whose strenuous tongue Can burst Joy's grape against his palate fine; His soul shall taste the sadness of her might, And be among her cloudy trophies hung.
Página 180 - 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 180 - 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 97 - Darkling I listen ; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath ; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain...
Página 193 - 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 207 - 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...
Página 191 - 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.
Página 100 - 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...