Dreamthorp: a Book of Essays Written in the CountryStrahan, 1863 - 296 Seiten |
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... passing wayfarer . On these roads you may walk for a year and encounter nothing more remarkable than the country cart , troops of tawny children from the woods , laden with primroses , and at long intervals— for people in this district ...
... passing wayfarer . On these roads you may walk for a year and encounter nothing more remarkable than the country cart , troops of tawny children from the woods , laden with primroses , and at long intervals— for people in this district ...
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... passing over their heads would be a famous one in the calendar . Battles have been fought , kings have died , history has transacted itself ; but , all unheeding and untouched , Dreamthorp has watched apple - trees redden , and wheat ...
... passing over their heads would be a famous one in the calendar . Battles have been fought , kings have died , history has transacted itself ; but , all unheeding and untouched , Dreamthorp has watched apple - trees redden , and wheat ...
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... passing sunbeam makes brilliant a white gable - end , and brings out the colours of the blossomed apple - tree beyond , and disappears . I see figures in the street , but hear them not . The hands on the church Time has I make a clock ...
... passing sunbeam makes brilliant a white gable - end , and brings out the colours of the blossomed apple - tree beyond , and disappears . I see figures in the street , but hear them not . The hands on the church Time has I make a clock ...
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... passing over his head ; and , if unsatisfied with that , he has the world's six thousand years to depasture his gay or serious humour upon . I idle away my time here , and I am finding new subjects every hour . Everything I see or hear ...
... passing over his head ; and , if unsatisfied with that , he has the world's six thousand years to depasture his gay or serious humour upon . I idle away my time here , and I am finding new subjects every hour . Everything I see or hear ...
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... passed out beyond the glow of youth , and who have made trial of the actual world . The essence of his philosophy is a kind of cynical common sense . He will risk nothing in life ; he will keep to the beaten track On the Writing of ...
... passed out beyond the glow of youth , and who have made trial of the actual world . The essence of his philosophy is a kind of cynical common sense . He will risk nothing in life ; he will keep to the beaten track On the Writing of ...
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32 LUDGATE HILL Arcite ballads beautiful beneath better Bishop of Argyll BOOKSELLERS Canterbury Tales Charles Lamb charm Chaucer Christian clergyman Clerk Saunders colour Constance Crown 8vo dead death delight Dreamthorp Ebenezer Elliott egotist English essayist Essays everything face fancy feeling flowers friends garden genius gold grave green hand happy hear heart human humour imagination kind king Knight's Tale lark light literary lives LONDON look lovers melancholy mind Montaigne mood morning nature ness never night noble NORMAN MACLEOD OLD LIEUTENANT once Palamon passion peculiar pleasant pleasure poems poet poor reader rich rose satire Scottish sentence Shakspeare silent singing sitting sleep speak story STRAHAN STRAHAN & CO strange sunset sweet tender Theseus things THOMAS BINNEY thought THOUSAND tion touch trees vagabond vanity village voice walk whole Wife of Bath writing young
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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.