Nugae Criticae: Occasional Papers Written at the SeasideEdmonston and Douglas, 1862 - 492 páginas |
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... hand to his work bravely and honestly , he will not want his reward ; but as mine and yours , Lancelot , lie in quite a different direction , shall we not say with Falstaff , " Hal , I prithee , trouble me no more with vanity ? " The ...
... hand to his work bravely and honestly , he will not want his reward ; but as mine and yours , Lancelot , lie in quite a different direction , shall we not say with Falstaff , " Hal , I prithee , trouble me no more with vanity ? " The ...
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... hand she swears From his soft bosom never to remove , Till he take truce with her contending tears , Which long have rained , making her cheeks all wet ; And one sweet kiss shall pay this countless debt . Upon this promise did he raise ...
... hand she swears From his soft bosom never to remove , Till he take truce with her contending tears , Which long have rained , making her cheeks all wet ; And one sweet kiss shall pay this countless debt . Upon this promise did he raise ...
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... hand , and some great design to set presently upon . " Moreover , as the words of the Vulgate are tempus itineris , the journey they make must be to some distance , which could hardly be averred if they only went to the bottom of the ...
... hand , and some great design to set presently upon . " Moreover , as the words of the Vulgate are tempus itineris , the journey they make must be to some distance , which could hardly be averred if they only went to the bottom of the ...
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... hand just now else a paper of some interest might be written on Lily's Ornithology , containing certain traits of the feathered tribes rather calcu- lated to enlarge Mr. Yarrel's mind . † Lily him- self was the chief offender ; but the ...
... hand just now else a paper of some interest might be written on Lily's Ornithology , containing certain traits of the feathered tribes rather calcu- lated to enlarge Mr. Yarrel's mind . † Lily him- self was the chief offender ; but the ...
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... hand , slaughtered the saints of God . The studies of animal life are effective and felicitous , though not by Landseer . Many birds of tasteful but chastened plumage - for there is none of the gorgeous finery of the Tropics about the ...
... hand , slaughtered the saints of God . The studies of animal life are effective and felicitous , though not by Landseer . Many birds of tasteful but chastened plumage - for there is none of the gorgeous finery of the Tropics about the ...
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Página 15 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Página 146 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Página 246 - The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea; And, musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free; For, standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave.
Página 325 - Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow. Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.
Página 288 - In the white curtain, to and fro, She saw the gusty shadow sway. But when the moon was very low, And wild winds bound within their cell, The shadow of the poplar fell Upon her bed, across her brow. She only said, " The night is dreary, He cometh not," she said; She said, " I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!
Página 292 - All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful Past. Let us alone. What pleasure can we have To war with evil? Is there any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave?
Página 177 - Leave thou thy sister when she prays Her early heaven, her happy views ; Nor thou with shadow'd hint confuse A life that leads melodious days. Her faith thro' form is pure as thine, Her hands are quicker unto good.
Página 166 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Página 414 - Contemplating Spain, such as our ancestors had known her, I resolved that if France had Spain, it should not be Spain ' with the Indies.' I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old.
Página 318 - The great problem of the shifting relation between passion and duty is clear to no man who is capable of apprehending it : the question whether the moment has come in which a man has fallen below the possibility of a renunciation that will carry any efficacy, and must accept the sway of a passion against which he had struggled as a trespass, is one for which we have no master-key that will fit all cases.