An Old Castle and Other EssaysMacmillan, 1922 - Всего страниц: 395 |
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... true indeed that the greatest masters of modern prose have at their command felicities of arrangement and cadence , and a subtle use of the suggestive power of words , by means of which they can convey their thought not only with all ...
... true indeed that the greatest masters of modern prose have at their command felicities of arrangement and cadence , and a subtle use of the suggestive power of words , by means of which they can convey their thought not only with all ...
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... true knight , " who trod , " as an old writer says , " from his cradle to his grave amid incense and flowers and died in a dream of glory . " The pattern gentleman of England , is not that a goodly fame ? I think it cannot be that any ...
... true knight , " who trod , " as an old writer says , " from his cradle to his grave amid incense and flowers and died in a dream of glory . " The pattern gentleman of England , is not that a goodly fame ? I think it cannot be that any ...
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... true to her , and for years the relations of Lady Rich with himself had been no secret . He wished to give to those relations the sanction of law and of religion , and as Lady Rich had been deserted by her wretched husband for some ...
... true to her , and for years the relations of Lady Rich with himself had been no secret . He wished to give to those relations the sanction of law and of religion , and as Lady Rich had been deserted by her wretched husband for some ...
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... true sea- dog , long , and lank , and brown , As is the ribbed sea - sand . His leathern face has been tanned in the tropics and frozen at both poles . He is slow of speech , but he always remem- bers how , when he , who but a little ...
... true sea- dog , long , and lank , and brown , As is the ribbed sea - sand . His leathern face has been tanned in the tropics and frozen at both poles . He is slow of speech , but he always remem- bers how , when he , who but a little ...
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... true knights , for it was not for mere gain or glory that they fought . At the bottom of all this romantic heroism , there was a profound religious sentiment . We shall never read aright that glorious page of history until we understand ...
... true knights , for it was not for mere gain or glory that they fought . At the bottom of all this romantic heroism , there was a profound religious sentiment . We shall never read aright that glorious page of history until we understand ...
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Стр. 106 - When daffodils begin to peer, With heigh ! the doxy over the dale, Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year; For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale. The white sheet bleaching on the hedge, With heigh ! the sweet birds, O, how they sing! Doth set my pugging tooth on edge ; For a quart of ale is a dish for a king. The lark, that...
Стр. 47 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons...
Стр. 89 - Yare, yare, good Iras; quick. — Methinks, I hear Antony call; I see him rouse himself To praise my noble act; I hear him mock The luck of Caesar, which the gods give men To excuse their after wrath: Husband, I come: Now to that name my courage prove my title ! I am fire, and air; my other elements I give to baser life.
Стр. 39 - It was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o'er the green corn-field did pass In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding : Sweet lovers love the spring.
Стр. 110 - Even here undone ! I was not much afeard ; for once or twice I was about to speak and tell him plainly, The selfsame sun that shines upon his court Hides not his visage from our cottage but Looks on alike.
Стр. 325 - GROW old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in his hand Who saith, "A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!
Стр. 108 - I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so; and for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still, still so, and own No other function.
Стр. 60 - Hero had turned nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night; for, good youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont and being taken with the cramp was drowned; and the foolish chroniclers of that age found it was — Hero of Sestos. But these are all lies. Men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them. but not for love.
Стр. 247 - O' clod or stane, Adorns the histie stibble-field, Unseen, alane. There, in thy scanty mantle clad, Thy snawie bosom sun-ward spread, Thou lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise ; But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies ! Such is the fate of artless maid, Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade ! By love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all soil'd, is laid Low i
Стр. 89 - With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate Of life at once untie : poor venomous fool, Be angry, and dispatch.