Favorite Authors in Prose and PoetryJames Thomas Fields James R. Osgood, 1884 |
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... spirit . As well never to have lived as to lose them now . " Without further parley we passed to the next alcove , the shelves of which were burdened with ancient volumes and with those rolls of papyrus in which was treasured up the ...
... spirit . As well never to have lived as to lose them now . " Without further parley we passed to the next alcove , the shelves of which were burdened with ancient volumes and with those rolls of papyrus in which was treasured up the ...
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... spirit should feel their excellence . In this department , again , I noticed the tendency to whimsical combinations and ludicrous analo- gies which seemed to influence many of the arrangements of the museum . The wooden statue so well ...
... spirit should feel their excellence . In this department , again , I noticed the tendency to whimsical combinations and ludicrous analo- gies which seemed to influence many of the arrangements of the museum . The wooden statue so well ...
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... spirit is not entirely extinct under all this corrupted or frozen mass of earthly life . Perhaps the immortal spark may yet be rekindled by a breath of heaven . Perhaps you may yet be permitted to die before it is too late to live ...
... spirit is not entirely extinct under all this corrupted or frozen mass of earthly life . Perhaps the immortal spark may yet be rekindled by a breath of heaven . Perhaps you may yet be permitted to die before it is too late to live ...
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... spirit , crowds its all in little , Makes a strange art of an art familiar , Fills his lady's missal - marge with flowerets . He who blows through bronze , may breathe through silver , Fitly serenade a slumbrous princess . He who writes ...
... spirit , crowds its all in little , Makes a strange art of an art familiar , Fills his lady's missal - marge with flowerets . He who blows through bronze , may breathe through silver , Fitly serenade a slumbrous princess . He who writes ...
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... spirit and deftness . A proper sense of the importance of their craft had these gentlemen ; they laid down the law with great gravity , and from critical benches shook their awful wigs on offenders . How it all looks now ! " Let us ...
... spirit and deftness . A proper sense of the importance of their craft had these gentlemen ; they laid down the law with great gravity , and from critical benches shook their awful wigs on offenders . How it all looks now ! " Let us ...
Términos y frases comunes
army Ashen Fagot Avenly beautiful Belle Bill called Carthage Carthaginian cheer child CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Christmas Churm Cisalpine Gaul Damer David Hume dear Doon Hill door dreams Druids Dunderbunk Easedale eyes face father fear feel Fingalian fire Gauls girls goblin golden Grasmere hand Hannibal head heard heart heaven hills horse hour Italy Kendrick knew lady Laura light live Lizzie look Lord Mabel mind morning mother natural never night Oliver Cromwell once painter perhaps Perry Philip Owen picture poor portrait Purtett Pyrenees Rembrandt Reynolds Rhone Ringdove river round Saguntum Sarah Green seemed shepherd side skating sleep smile snow soul spirit stood sweet Tarbox tell thee things thou thought tion Titian told took turned voice vrom Wade walk wife wish woman young
Pasajes populares
Página 177 - With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags^ Plying her needle and thread — Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger and dirt; And still with a voice of dolorous pitch — Would that its tone could reach the rich! — She sang the
Página 320 - Comes a still voice : — yet a few days, and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course. Nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again ; And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt thou go To mix forever with the elements, To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish clod,...
Página 113 - I began thus far to assent both to them and divers of my friends here at home, and not less to an inward prompting, which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave, something so written, to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Página 325 - A tory! a tory! a spy! a refugee! hustle him! away with him!" It was with great difficulty that the self-important man in the cocked hat restored order; and, having assumed a tenfold austerity of brow, demanded again of the unknown culprit, what he came there for, and whom he was seeking? The poor man humbly assured him that he meant no harm, but merely came there in search of some of his neighbors, who used to keep about the tavern. "Well — who are they? — name them.
Página 177 - Oh! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet With the sky above my head, And the grass beneath my feet, For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal!
Página 271 - Look on the rising sun : there God does live, And gives His light, and gives His heat away, And flowers and trees and beasts and men receive Comfort in morning, joy in the noonday. ' And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love ; And these black bodies and this sunburnt face Are but a cloud, and like a shady grove.
Página 115 - God's almightiness, and what He works, and what He suffers to be wrought with high providence in His church, to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ; to deplore the general relapses of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship.
Página 324 - Bummel, the schoolmaster, doling forth the contents of an ancient newspaper. In place of these, a lean, bilious-looking fellow, with his pockets full of handbills, was haranguing vehemently about rights of citizens...
Página 230 - EVE — Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; The hare limped trembling through the frozen grass, And silent was the flock in woolly fold: Numb were the Beadsman's fingers, while he told His rosary, and while his frosted breath, Like pious incense from a censer old, Seemed taking flight for heaven, without a death, Past the sweet Virgin's picture, while his prayer he saith.
Página 81 - The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away ; blessed be the Name of the Lord ! — "His Highness," says Harvey,3 "being at Hampton Court, sickened a little before the Lady Elizabeth died.