The Autobiography of Alfred Austin, Poet Laureate, 1835-1910, Volum 1

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Macmillan, 1911
 

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Pàgina 96 - Ave Maria ! blessed be the hour ! The time, the clime, the spot, where I so oft Have felt that moment in its fullest power Sink o'er the earth so beautiful and soft, While swung the deep bell in the distant tower, Or the faint dying day-hymn stole aloft, And not a breath crept through the rosy ah*, And yet the forest leaves seem'd stirr'd with prayer.
Pàgina 33 - The stag at eve had drunk his fill, Where danced the moon on Monan's rill, And deep his midnight lair had made In lone Glenartney's hazel shade...
Pàgina 212 - Mais elle était du monde où les plus belles choses Ont le pire destin ; Et rose elle a vécu ce que vivent les roses, L'espace d'un matin.
Pàgina 1 - ... has come, it has been discovered that nothing is harder than to write a beautiful poem of two or four lines. Only great masters have been truly successful at it. Goethe, you know, made a quatrain that has become a part of world-literature : Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate, — Who ne'er the lonely midnight hours, Weeping upon his bed has sate, He knows ye not, ye Heavenly Powers...
Pàgina 7 - The law administered was the lex mercatoria, and there was a provision that causes in which one party was a foreigner, should be tried by a jury one half of whom were foreigners. The most important legislative enactments regarding the Staple and the Court of Staple were the Statute of Acton Burnel (11 Edward I.), by which merchants were enabled to sell the chattels of their debtor, and attach his person for debt; 13 Edw. I. c. 3; and 27 Edw. III. c. 2, called the Statute of Staple, one object of...
Pàgina 323 - SIR, — I am led to send you these few lines in consequence of the introduction of my name in yesterday's Standard into your report of the ' Progress of the (Ecumenical Council.' I thank you for the courteous terms in which you have, on various occasions, as on the present, spoken of me ; but I am bound to disavow what you have yesterday imputed to me — namely, that I have 'written to my Bishop at Rome, Dr. Ullathorne, stigmatising the promoters of Papal Infallibility as an insolent and aggressive...
Pàgina 127 - FELSENEGG SHELLEY'S DEATH ["A little while ago, there died at Spezzia an old sailor, who in his last confession to the priest (whom he told to make it public) stated that he was one of the crew that ran down the boat containing Shelley and Williams, which was done under the impression that the rich Milord Byron was on board with lots of money. They did not intend to sink the boat, but to board her and murder Byron.
Pàgina 120 - Bm longer wax the shadows, more distinct the horizon landmarks. If you are to sleep in Rome this night, you must turn head and make straight for the arches of the Acqua Felice. What a sundown! what a twilight! Is that verily a city we approach? Are those walls there the tombs of the departed? Archways and parapets, domes and campanili, ivied battlements, solitary pines, in a soft suffusing purple sea of expiring light — you might doubt of the reality of them all. But the bells of Ave Mann grow...
Pàgina 323 - Eoman correspondent of the Standard having published extracts from Newman's letter, he took occasion to come forward and say that he had no wish to conceal that he "deeply deplored the policy, the spirit, the measures of various persons lay and ecclesiastical, who are urging the definition of that theological opinion " (of papal infallibility), while on the other hand he has " a firm belief that a greater power than that of any man or set of men will overrule the deliberations of the Council to the...
Pàgina 6 - ... the eye, in the form of an opaque white prominence. It is unnecessary to enter into details of the treatment of these affections, which must be left entirely to the hands of the surgeon. STAPLE (A.-S. stapel, a prop, support ; a heap, and hence a place where goods are stored up or exposed for sale), a term applied, in the commerce of the middle ages, in the first instance, to the towns in which the chief products of a country were Hold, and afterwards to the merchandise that was sold at the staple...

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