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... scene most imposing and animating , and admirably suited to effect its aim . It was indeed , a rough sport ( for rarely did one pass without loss of life , ) but then silken plays would ill have matched an age of iron . Such was the ...
... scene most imposing and animating , and admirably suited to effect its aim . It was indeed , a rough sport ( for rarely did one pass without loss of life , ) but then silken plays would ill have matched an age of iron . Such was the ...
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... scene and hour . I was reminded of Oberon's exquisite description of music and moonlight on the ocean : Thou rememberest Since once I sat upon a promontory , And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back , Uttering such dulcet and harmonious ...
... scene and hour . I was reminded of Oberon's exquisite description of music and moonlight on the ocean : Thou rememberest Since once I sat upon a promontory , And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back , Uttering such dulcet and harmonious ...
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... SCENE : A BANQUET IN A GARDEN . CHORUS OF REVELLERS . Rejoice ! Rejoice ! Let us strike the full goblets again and again , Till their roseate lips shall be shattered in twain ; Come , wind of the evening , from balm - breathing bowers ...
... SCENE : A BANQUET IN A GARDEN . CHORUS OF REVELLERS . Rejoice ! Rejoice ! Let us strike the full goblets again and again , Till their roseate lips shall be shattered in twain ; Come , wind of the evening , from balm - breathing bowers ...
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... scene was broken by the mournful cry of the water - fowl , echoed and reechoed from isle to isle , then dying away in fainter echoes from the more distant shores , losing itself in solemn stillness , as we come within the dark shadow of ...
... scene was broken by the mournful cry of the water - fowl , echoed and reechoed from isle to isle , then dying away in fainter echoes from the more distant shores , losing itself in solemn stillness , as we come within the dark shadow of ...
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... scene , with- out a sound to disturb its solemn stillness , I remembered , with awe , that but a breath from Him whose existence was written on all around , and the mighty hills and rocks of adamant ' which now filled me with admiration ...
... scene , with- out a sound to disturb its solemn stillness , I remembered , with awe , that but a breath from Him whose existence was written on all around , and the mighty hills and rocks of adamant ' which now filled me with admiration ...
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Página 365 - I am afraid my uncle will think himself justified by them on this occasion, when he asserts, that it is one of the most difficult things in the world to put a woman right, when she sets out wrong.
Página 20 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known ; riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none ; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil ; No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too, — but innocent and pure ; No sovereignty, — Seb.
Página 145 - With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies.
Página 176 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Página 317 - How calm, how beautiful comes on The stilly hour, when storms are gone ; When warring winds have died away, And clouds, beneath the glancing ray, Melt off, and leave the land and sea Sleeping in bright tranquillity, — Fresh as if day again were born, Again upon the lap of morn...
Página 257 - Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe. Remember thee? Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there, And thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven!
Página 16 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Página 20 - Treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Página 407 - Secondly, The other fountain from which experience furnisheth the understanding with ideas, is the perception of the operations of our own minds within us, as it is employed about the ideas it has got; which operations when the soul comes to reflect on and consider, do furnish the understanding with another set of ideas, which could not be had from things without; and such are perception, thinking, doubting, believing, reasoning, knowing, willing, and all the different actings of our own minds; which...
Página 10 - I betook me among those lofty fables and romances which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings, and from hence had in renown over all Christendom.