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Passatges populars
Pàgina 135 - O how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields ! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of Heaven...
Pàgina 13 - For this reason,' he would add, ' one ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
Pàgina 52 - Time wastes too fast : every letter I trace tells me with what rapidity Life follows my pen ; the days and hours of it, more precious, my dear Jenny! than the rubies about thy neck, are flying over our heads like...
Pàgina 156 - A woman has no natural grace more bewitching than a sweet laugh. It is like the sound of flutes on the water. It leaps from her heart in a clear, sparkling rill ; and the heart that hears it feels as if bathed in the cool, exhilarating spring. Have you ever pursued an unseen fugitive through the trees, led on by her fairy laugh ; now here, now there — now lost, now found ? We have.
Pàgina 71 - one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.
Pàgina 49 - Druidism prevailed the houses were decked with evergreens in December, that the sylvan spirits might repair to them, and remain unnipped with frost and •cold winds, until a milder season had renewed the foliage of their darling abodes.
Pàgina 3 - Inkermann admits of no description. It was a series of dreadful deeds of daring, of sanguinary hand-to-hand fights, of despairing rallies, of desperate assaults — in glens and valleys, in brushwood glades and remote dells, hidden from all human eyes, and from which the conquerors, Russian or British, issued only to engage fresh foes, till our old supremacy, so rudely assailed, was triumphantly asserted, and the battalions of the czar gave way before our steady courage and the chivalrous fire of...
Pàgina 34 - A shell came right in among the staff — it exploded in Captain Somerset's horse, ripping him open ; a portion of the shell tore off the leather overalls of Captain Somerset's trousers ; it then struck down Captain Gordon's horse and killed him at once, and then blew away General Strangway's leg, so that it hung by a shred of flesh and a bit of cloth from the skin. The poor old General never moved a muscle of his face. He said merely in a gentle voice, " Will any one be kind enough to lift me off...
Pàgina 37 - It is well seen, O God, how thou goest : how thou, my God and King, goest in the sanctuary. 25 The singers go before, the minstrels follow after : in the midst are the damsels playing with the timbrels.
Pàgina 82 - Syrian mountains, or where the stars Come glittering forth in their golden cars, There bloometh a land of perennial bliss, Where we smile to think of the tears in this? And the pilgrim reaching that radiant shore Has the thought of death in his heart no more. But layeth his staff and sandals down, For the victor's palm and the monarch's crown.