The Gentle ReaderHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1903 - 321 pagina's |
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Pagina 27
... charm of personality , and how hard it is to preserve the best things . His friend , who is a great diner- out , says : " Those were delightful people I met at dinner yesterday , and what a capital story the judge told ! I laugh every ...
... charm of personality , and how hard it is to preserve the best things . His friend , who is a great diner- out , says : " Those were delightful people I met at dinner yesterday , and what a capital story the judge told ! I laugh every ...
Pagina 44
... charm ? O then come hither And lay my book , thy head and heart together . " Only the reader who yields to the charm can dream the dream . The poet may weave his story of the most common stuff , but " there's magic in the web of it ...
... charm ? O then come hither And lay my book , thy head and heart together . " Only the reader who yields to the charm can dream the dream . The poet may weave his story of the most common stuff , but " there's magic in the web of it ...
Pagina 48
... charm lies in their illusiveness . Fancy any one trying to explain Rossetti's " Blessed Damozel . " Yet when the mood is on us we see her as she leans : " From the gold bar of Heaven : Her eyes were deeper than the depth Of waters ...
... charm lies in their illusiveness . Fancy any one trying to explain Rossetti's " Blessed Damozel . " Yet when the mood is on us we see her as she leans : " From the gold bar of Heaven : Her eyes were deeper than the depth Of waters ...
Pagina 52
... charms " Of woven paces and of waving hands . " And we must stand at last with King Arthur on the shore of the mystic sea , and see the barge come slowly with the three queens , “ black - stoled , black - hooded , like a dream ; " and ...
... charms " Of woven paces and of waving hands . " And we must stand at last with King Arthur on the shore of the mystic sea , and see the barge come slowly with the three queens , “ black - stoled , black - hooded , like a dream ; " and ...
Pagina 58
... charm we are conscious that it is made up of the old familiar elements . Tennyson's apology to a utilitarian age was not needed : " Perhaps some modern touches here and there Redeemed it from the charge of nothingness . " 29 The ...
... charm we are conscious that it is made up of the old familiar elements . Tennyson's apology to a utilitarian age was not needed : " Perhaps some modern touches here and there Redeemed it from the charge of nothingness . " 29 The ...
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Pagina 208 - Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
Pagina 310 - Farewell happy fields Where joy for ever dwells! Hail horrors, hail Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new possessor; one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
Pagina 200 - And the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre : and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day ; and he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him : and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground, and said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant...
Pagina 46 - Until her bosom must have made The bar she leaned on warm, And the lilies lay as if asleep Along her bended arm.
Pagina 46 - THE blessed damozel leaned out From the gold bar of Heaven ; Her eyes were deeper than the depth Of waters stilled at even ; She had three lilies in her hand, And the stars in her hair were seven.
Pagina 308 - Good and evil, we know, in the field of this world, grow up together almost inseparably ; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil...
Pagina 203 - And four great zones of sculpture, set betwixt With many a mystic symbol, gird the hall: And in the lowest beasts are slaying men, And in the second men are slaying beasts, And on the third are warriors, perfect men, And on the fourth are men with growing wings...
Pagina 177 - For friend and foe were shadows in the mist, And friend slew friend not knowing whom he slew ; And some had visions out of golden youth, And some beheld the faces of old ghosts Look in upon the battle...
Pagina 174 - Dundee. Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle the horses and call up the men, Come open your gates, and let me gae free, For it's up with the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
Pagina 309 - That virtue, therefore, which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure...