A Budget of Letters, Or, Things which I Saw AbroadW.D. Ticknor, 1847 - 470 pàgines |
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A Budget of Letters, Or Things which I Saw Abroad. [By Jane Antony Eames.] Visualització completa - 1847 |
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Pàgina 325 - Where, as to shame the temples deck'd By skill of earthly architect, Nature herself, it seem'd, would raise A Minster to her Maker's praise ! Not for a meaner use ascend Her columns, or her arches bend ; Nor of a theme less solemn tells That mighty surge that ebbs and swells, And still, between each awful pause, From the high vault an answer draws, In varied tone prolonged and high, That mocks the organ's melody.
Pàgina 324 - Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme! O teach me what is good; teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, « From every low pursuit; and fill my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!
Pàgina 325 - In all her length far winding lay, With promontory, creek, and bay, And islands that, empurpled bright, Floated amid the livelier light, And mountains, that like giants stand, To sentinel enchanted land. High on the south, huge Benvenue Down on the lake in masses threw Crags, knolls, and mounds, confusedly hurl'd, The fragments of an earlier world ; A wildering forest feather'd o'er His ruin'd sides and summit hoar, While on the north, through middle air, Ben-an heaved high his forehead bare. XV....
Pàgina 201 - O! the one life within us and abroad, Which meets all motion and becomes its soul, A light in sound, a sound-like power in light Rhythm in all thought, and joyance every where Methinks, it should have been impossible Not to love all things in a world so filled; Where the breeze warbles, and the mute still air Is Music slumbering on her instrument.
Pàgina 325 - I little thought, when first thy rein I slacked upon the banks of Seine, That Highland eagle e'er should feed On thy fleet limbs, my matchless steed ! Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day, That costs thy life, my gallant grey!
Pàgina 4 - The floods, O Lord, lift up their voice, And toss the troubled waves on high, But God above can still their noise, And make the angry sea comply.
Pàgina 325 - If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray.
Pàgina 304 - Malcolm, Land, rediv. INSCRIPTION ON A MONUMENT ALLUDED TO IN THE SKETCH. Here lyes the Loyal Duke of Newcastle, and his Duchess his second wife, by whom he had no issue. Her name was Margaret Lucas, youngest sister to the Lord Lucas of Colchester, a noble family ; for all the brothers were valiant, and all the sisters virtuous.
Pàgina 304 - This Duchess was a wise, witty, and learned lady, which her many Bookes do well testify : she was a most virtuous, and loving and careful wife, and was with her lord all the time of his banishment and miseries, and when he came home, never parted from him in his solitary retirements.
Pàgina 303 - James VI. ; having to her great-grandmother and grandmother, two Queens, both named Elizabeth ; to her mother, Margaret Queen of Scots ; to her aunt, Mary, the French Queen ; to her cousins-german, Mary and Elizabeth, Queens of England ; to her niece and daughter-in-law, Mary Queen of Scots.