Dreamthorp: a Book of Essays Written in the CountryStrahan, 1863 - 296 Seiten |
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... faces and curious arabesques , as dry , however , as the castle moat , has a tradition connected with it ; and a great noble riding through the street one day several hundred years ago , was shot from a window by a man whom he had ...
... faces and curious arabesques , as dry , however , as the castle moat , has a tradition connected with it ; and a great noble riding through the street one day several hundred years ago , was shot from a window by a man whom he had ...
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... faces of the hinds coming home from the fields . The mighty storm that raged while Cromwell lay a - dying made all the oak - woods groan round about here , and tore the thatch from the very roofs I gaze upon . When I think of this , I ...
... faces of the hinds coming home from the fields . The mighty storm that raged while Cromwell lay a - dying made all the oak - woods groan round about here , and tore the thatch from the very roofs I gaze upon . When I think of this , I ...
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Alexander Smith. great white water - lily asleep on its olive - coloured face . Never was velvet on a monarch's robe so gor- geous as the ' green mosses that be - ruff the roofs of farm and cottage , when the sunbeam slants on them and ...
Alexander Smith. great white water - lily asleep on its olive - coloured face . Never was velvet on a monarch's robe so gor- geous as the ' green mosses that be - ruff the roofs of farm and cottage , when the sunbeam slants on them and ...
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... face the big white water - lily already chronicled . Such a secluded place is Dreamthorp that the railway does not come near , and the canal is the only thing that connects it with the world . It stands high , and from it the undulating ...
... face the big white water - lily already chronicled . Such a secluded place is Dreamthorp that the railway does not come near , and the canal is the only thing that connects it with the world . It stands high , and from it the undulating ...
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... face of the bowed artisan will have gathered its ineffable peace , and the widow will be led away from the bedside by the tenderness of neighbours , and the cries of the orphan brood will be stilled . And yet this present indubitable ...
... face of the bowed artisan will have gathered its ineffable peace , and the widow will be led away from the bedside by the tenderness of neighbours , and the cries of the orphan brood will be stilled . And yet this present indubitable ...
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Seite 140 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one (from whence they came) Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Seite 281 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known : riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none : No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil : No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too ; but innocent and pure : No sovereignty : — Seb.
Seite 128 - And sullen Moloch fled, Hath left in shadows dread His burning idol all of blackest hue ; In vain with cymbals' ring They call the grisly king, In dismal dance about the furnace blue : The brutish gods of Nile as fast, Isis and Orus, and the dog Anubis, haste.
Seite 129 - A power from the unknown God, A Promethean conqueror, came; Like a triumphal path he trod The thorns of death and shame. A mortal shape to him Was like the vapour dim Which the orient planet animates with light; Hell, Sin, and Slavery came, Like bloodhounds mild and tame, Nor preyed, until their Lord had taken flight; The moon of Mahomet Arose, and it shall set : While blazoned as on Heaven's immortal noon The cross leads generations on.
Seite 128 - Not Typhon huge ending in snaky twine : Our Babe to show his Godhead true, Can in his swaddling bands control the damned crew.
Seite 280 - And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met? And he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord. And Esau said, I have enough, my brother ; keep that thou hast unto thyself.
Seite 49 - It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates * and masters the fear of death; and therefore death is no such terrible enemy when a man hath so many attendants about him that can win the combat of him.
Seite 49 - Fear preoccupateth it; nay we read, after Otho the emperor had slain himself, Pity (which is the tenderest of affections) provoked many to die, out of mere compassion to their sovereign, and as the truest sort of followers. Nay Seneca adds niceness and satiety: Cogita quamdiu eadem feceris; mori velle, non tantum fortis, aut miser, sed etiam fastidiosus potest.
Seite 49 - It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death; but, above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is, 'Nunc dimittis' when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations.
Seite 49 - ... as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit is like one that is wounded in hot blood, who for the time scarce feels the hurt' and therefore, a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death. But above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations.