'Ubique', Or, English Country Quarters, and Eastern BivouacC. J. Skeet, 1857 - 174 Seiten |
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Seite 63 - And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim, religious light. There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced choir below, In service high and anthem clear, As may with .sweetness through mine ear Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes...
Seite 77 - AT summer eve, when Heaven's ethereal bow Spans with bright arch the glittering hills below. Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye, "Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky ? Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near ?— 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.
Seite 76 - Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.
Seite 63 - With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light: There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced choir below, In service high, and anthems clear, As may with sweetness through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes.
Seite 4 - God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
Seite 37 - A chain-drooped lamp was flickering by each door ; The arras, rich with horseman, hawk, and hound, Fluttered in the besieging wind's uproar ; And the long carpets rose along the gusty floor.
Seite 81 - The world of fashion. Beaux esprits. Fr. — " Gay spirits." — Men of wit." Bella femina che ride, vuol dir, borsa che piange. Ital. Prov. — "The smiles of a pretty woman are* the tears of the purse.
Seite 44 - Happy are they whose amusement is knowledge, and whose supreme delight is in the cultivation of the mind! Wherever they shall be driven by the persecution of Fortune, the means of employment are still with them ; and that weary listlessness, which renders life insupportable to the voluptuous and the lazy, is unknown to those who can employ themselves by reading.
Seite 164 - The land of marriage has this peculiarity, that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, whilst its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence.