Traveller ...: With Introduction, Life of the Author, Argument, & NotesA. Miller & Company, 1879 - 71 páginas |
Términos y frases comunes
ADAM MILLER admirable akin Bard Beatty & Clare's beauty blest boast bosom breast C. F. ANDREWS Cambridge character charms Chief Supt Clare's Bookkeeping College common crown Deserted Village e'en edition Elegy English History epithet Eton freedom fretted Goldsmith Gray Gray's happiness heart High School honour Horace Walpole Illyria Inspector for Queen's Inspector of Schools Italy Johnson land letter literally literary LL.D Lord Manitoba Mason meaning metaphor Miller's new Swinton's Milton mind Minister of Education N. S. Miller's nature Normal School Nova Scotia o'er OLIVER GOLDSMITH Ontario original Ovid Parliament of Canada Pembroke Hall perhaps Peterhouse Petrarch pleased pleasure poem poet poetry Pope's praise pride principles public schools recommend seems sense Shakespeare sizar soul stanza substantive Swinton's Language Lessons teachers text book Toronto travels tutor verb Vicar of Wakefield Walpole wealth word write wrote
Pasajes populares
Página 17 - Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th
Página 46 - Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
Página 19 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Página 17 - Death? perhaps in this neglected spot is laid some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; hands, that the rod of empire might have swayed, or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.
Página 19 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath, and near his favourite tree ; Another came : nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he : The next, with dirges due in sad array Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne, — Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Página 46 - No product here the barren hills afford But man and steel, the soldier and his sword ; No vernal blooms their torpid- rocks array, But winter lingering chills the lap of May ; No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast, But meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest.
Página 17 - ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Página 19 - E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of the unhonoured dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate; If chance, by lonely contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate...
Página 48 - Gay sprightly land of mirth and social ease, Pleased with thyself, whom all the world can please How often have I led thy sportive choir, With tuneless pipe, beside the murmuring Loire ; Where shading elms along the margin grew.
Página 7 - However, my skill in music could avail me nothing in a country where every peasant was a better musician than I : but by this time I had acquired another talent, which answered my purpose as well, and this was a skill in disputation. In all the foreign universities and convents there are, upon certain days, philosophical theses maintained against every adventitious disputant ; for which, if the champion opposes with any dexterity, he can claim a gratuity in money, a dinner, and a bed for one night.