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Pàgina 255 - For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night Whiter than new snow on a raven's back. Come, gentle night, come, loving, black-brow'd night, Give me my Romeo ; and, when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine, That all the world will be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Pàgina 305 - This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.
Pàgina 255 - Wilt thou be gone ? it is not yet near day : It was the nightingale, and not the lark, That pierc'd the fearful hollow of thine ear ; Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate tree : Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.
Pàgina 114 - Marseillaise — and I understood him. If I did not understand the word egalite, he drummed the march — "Ca ira, ca ira, §a ira, Les aristocrats a la lanterne!
Pàgina 325 - Dulcinea del Toboso is the most beautiful woman in the world, and I am the most unfortunate knight on earth, nor is it just that my weakness should discredit this truth ; knight, push on your lance, and take away my life, since you have despoiled me of my honour.
Pàgina 111 - Four can't be taken from three, therefore I must borrow one.
Pàgina 255 - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale ; look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops; I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
Pàgina ii - ... emblem of the laurel rather than with the emblem of the sword. Still, for his contemporaries, for us, for the Europe of the present century, he is significant chiefly for the reason which he himself in the words just quoted assigns. He is significant because he was, if not pre-eminently a brave, yet a brilliant, a most effective soldier in the Liberation- War of humanity.
Pàgina 118 - The trembling trees bowed towards him as he advanced, the sun-rays quivered, frightened, yet curiously through the green leaves, and in the blue heaven above there swam visibly a golden star. The Emperor wore his invisible-green uniform and the little world-renowned hat. He rode a white palfrey, which stepped with such calm pride, so confidently, so nobly — had I then been Crown Prince of Prussia I would have envied that horse. The Emperor sat carelessly, almost lazily, holding with one hand his...
Pàgina 39 - I'll kiss thee and caress thee, As in the ancient day I kissed the Emperor Henry, Who long has passed away. The dead are dead and silent, Only the living love; And I am fair and blooming — Dost feel my wild heart move! And as my heart is beating, My crystal castle rings, Where many a knight and lady In merry measure springs. Silk trains are softly rustling, Spurs ring from night to morn, And dwarfs are gaily drumming, And blow the golden horn. As round the Emperor Henry, My arms round thee shall...

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