HesperidesE. W. Allen, 1885 - 485 páginas |
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Página 81
... volume's leathern binding into the tranquillised mind , and , in an instant , the festering bonds of circumstance . are consumed . Or say , it has been a shallop of thought , with a web of texture fine and frail , To catch those ...
... volume's leathern binding into the tranquillised mind , and , in an instant , the festering bonds of circumstance . are consumed . Or say , it has been a shallop of thought , with a web of texture fine and frail , To catch those ...
Página 87
... volume first read is always the most precious ; an early edition , or a copy that has been in revcred hands ... volumes with which I am surrounded is perhaps ten hundred . To those who smile at the poverty of my shelves , I further reply ...
... volume first read is always the most precious ; an early edition , or a copy that has been in revcred hands ... volumes with which I am surrounded is perhaps ten hundred . To those who smile at the poverty of my shelves , I further reply ...
Página 99
... volumes far and near . Such campaigns , I know , have their fascinations , their inspira- tions , their rewards , or men would not engage in them . I must be content to rest in my own quiet retreat . Nevertheless , the recognition of ...
... volumes far and near . Such campaigns , I know , have their fascinations , their inspira- tions , their rewards , or men would not engage in them . I must be content to rest in my own quiet retreat . Nevertheless , the recognition of ...
Página 100
... volumes which he sees at Oxford ; and in acknowledging his obligation to D'Herbelot for his Persian quotations , speaks thus : How often have I endeavoured to per- fect myself in that easy and delicate language , but my malignant and ...
... volumes which he sees at Oxford ; and in acknowledging his obligation to D'Herbelot for his Persian quotations , speaks thus : How often have I endeavoured to per- fect myself in that easy and delicate language , but my malignant and ...
Página 108
... volume and the hour : not any dross in the Book can obscure it , no disparagement can deform it . . . ... A fine pas- sage praised by a writer , is like a new prospect found for us ; the praise of scenes like those in the Yosemite ...
... volume and the hour : not any dross in the Book can obscure it , no disparagement can deform it . . . ... A fine pas- sage praised by a writer , is like a new prospect found for us ; the praise of scenes like those in the Yosemite ...
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Página 54 - I HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.
Página 380 - Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year...
Página 190 - The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had her haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths ; all these have vanished. They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Página 314 - If all the pens that ever poets held Had fed the feeling of their masters' thoughts. And every sweetness that inspired their hearts. Their minds, and muses on admired themes; If all the heavenly quintessence they still From their immortal flowers of poesy, Wherein, as in a mirror, we perceive The highest reaches of a human wit; If these had made one poem's period, And all...
Página 424 - Enough, if something from our hands have power To live, and act, and serve the future hour; And if, as toward the silent tomb we go, Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know.
Página 385 - It ceased ; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.
Página 150 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith that all which we behold Is full...
Página 424 - Invest me in my motley ; give me leave To speak my mind, and I will through and through Cleanse the foul body of the infected world, If they will patiently receive my medicine.
Página 387 - Of fruits and flowers, and bunches of knot-grass, And diamonded with panes of quaint device, Innumerable of stains and splendid dyes, As are the tiger-moth's deep-damask'd wings; And in the midst, 'mong thousand heraldries, And twilight saints, and dim emblazonings, A shielded scutcheon blush'd with blood of queens and kings.
Página 337 - But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.