Dreamthorp: a Book of Essays Written in the CountryStrahan, 1863 - 296 Seiten |
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... seem to get closer to them . The last setting sun that Shakspeare saw reddened the win- dows here , and struck warmly on the faces of the hinds coming home from the fields . The mighty storm that raged while Cromwell lay a - dying made ...
... seem to get closer to them . The last setting sun that Shakspeare saw reddened the win- dows here , and struck warmly on the faces of the hinds coming home from the fields . The mighty storm that raged while Cromwell lay a - dying made ...
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... seem always pointing to one hour . fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine . frame of my fingers , and look at my picture . walls of the next Academy's Exhibition will hang nothing half so beautiful ! On the My village is , I think , a ...
... seem always pointing to one hour . fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine . frame of my fingers , and look at my picture . walls of the next Academy's Exhibition will hang nothing half so beautiful ! On the My village is , I think , a ...
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... - pies , and gather round in silence ; they have seen me get off a hundred times , but their interest in the matter seems always new . Not unfrequently an idle cobbler , in red nightcap and leathern apron , leans on a Dreamthorp . 13.
... - pies , and gather round in silence ; they have seen me get off a hundred times , but their interest in the matter seems always new . Not unfrequently an idle cobbler , in red nightcap and leathern apron , leans on a Dreamthorp . 13.
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... seems , I am not yet forgotten . The village has but few intellec- tual wants , and the intellectual supply is strictly measured by the demand . Still there is something . Down in the village , and opposite the curiously - carved ...
... seems , I am not yet forgotten . The village has but few intellec- tual wants , and the intellectual supply is strictly measured by the demand . Still there is something . Down in the village , and opposite the curiously - carved ...
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... seems to have written his essays with Shak- speare's pen . There is a certain want of ease about the old writers which has an irresistible charm . The language flows like a stream over a pebbled bed , with propulsion , eddy , and sweet ...
... seems to have written his essays with Shak- speare's pen . There is a certain want of ease about the old writers which has an irresistible charm . The language flows like a stream over a pebbled bed , with propulsion , eddy , and sweet ...
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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
Beliebte Passagen
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.