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Pàgina 5
... face and fingers that he got from his mother . The serene detachment that may be achieved by disciples of greater arts can hardly be his , applause touches his personal pride too nearly , the mocking echoes of derision infest the ...
... face and fingers that he got from his mother . The serene detachment that may be achieved by disciples of greater arts can hardly be his , applause touches his personal pride too nearly , the mocking echoes of derision infest the ...
Pàgina 7
... face the exacting realities of life ? Devotion to his profession has beggared him of his personalty ; ague , old age and poverty , love and death , find in him an entertainer who plies them with a feeble repetition of the triumphs ...
... face the exacting realities of life ? Devotion to his profession has beggared him of his personalty ; ague , old age and poverty , love and death , find in him an entertainer who plies them with a feeble repetition of the triumphs ...
Pàgina 74
... face they are shocked as by some grotesque . Now a poet , like Montaigne's naked philosopher , is all face ; and the bewilderment of his masked and muffled critics is the greater . attention he cannot but be misunderstood 74 Style.
... face they are shocked as by some grotesque . Now a poet , like Montaigne's naked philosopher , is all face ; and the bewilderment of his masked and muffled critics is the greater . attention he cannot but be misunderstood 74 Style.
Pàgina 75
... faces , so that , except in some rare animal paroxysm of emotion , it is hardly themselves that they express . The apparition of a poet disquiets them , for he clothes himself with the elements , and apologises to no idols . His candour ...
... faces , so that , except in some rare animal paroxysm of emotion , it is hardly themselves that they express . The apparition of a poet disquiets them , for he clothes himself with the elements , and apologises to no idols . His candour ...
Pàgina 78
... unknown body of hearers , no less than when he stands up to deliver himself to a sea of expectant faces . This is the true panic fear , that walks at mid - day , and unmans those whom it visits . Hence come reserva- tions 78 Style.
... unknown body of hearers , no less than when he stands up to deliver himself to a sea of expectant faces . This is the true panic fear , that walks at mid - day , and unmans those whom it visits . Hence come reserva- tions 78 Style.
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Pàgina 57 - That very law* which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.
Pàgina 113 - A man cannot speak to his son but as a father; to his wife but as a husband; to his enemy but upon terms ; whereas a friend may speak as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.
Pàgina 70 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Pàgina 101 - Etrurian shades High over-arched embower; or scattered sedge Afloat, when with fierce winds Orion armed Hath vexed the Red-Sea coast, whose waves o'erthrew Busiris and his Memphian chivalry...
Pàgina 99 - O more than Moon, Draw not up seas to drown me in thy sphere, » , Weep me not dead, in thine arms, but forbear To teach the sea, what it may do too soon; Let not the wind Example find, To do me more harm, than it purposeth; Since thou and I sigh one another's breath, Whoe'er sighs most is cruellest, and hastes the other's death.
Pàgina 70 - tis true I have gone here and there And made myself a motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affections new.
Pàgina 19 - Ibant obscuri sola sub nocte per umbram perque domos Ditis vacuas et inania regna...
Pàgina 18 - VOLUME II. Thornton. A SPORTING TOUR THROUGH THE NORTHERN PARTS OF ENGLAND AND GREAT PART OF THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND. By Colonel T. THORNTON, of Thornville Royal, in Yorkshire. With the Original Illustrations by GARRARD, and other Illustrations and Coloured Plates by GE LODGE. 'Sportsmen of all descriptions will gladly welcome the sumptuous new edition issued by Mr. Edward Arnold of Colonel T. Thornton's Sporting Tour," which has long been a scarce book.
Pàgina 14 - THE STREAM'S SECRET WHAT thing unto mine ear Wouldst thou convey,— what secret thing, O wandering water ever whispering? Surely thy speech shall be of her. Thou water, O thou whispering wanderer, What message dost thou bring? Say, hath not Love leaned low This hour beside thy far well-head, And there through jealous hollowed fingers said The thing that most I long to know,— Murmuring with curls all dabbled in thy flow And washed lips rosy red?
Pàgina 57 - Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong.