The Crayon Miscellany, Volume 2G. P. Putnam's sons, 1897 |
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ancient Annesley Hall apartment bank beautiful Bermudas castle cavaliers chamber character cloisters Colonel Wildman commander Communipaw Count of Angouleme dark decree Don Luis Don Munio door dream duchess Duke edifice English eyes fancy feelings forest fortune Foulquerre France French friars garden Gibbet Island Gothic grove hand haunted heard heart honor Joe Murray kind king Knight of Malta land Little White Lady lived livres looked Lord Byron Malta mansion ment mind Munio Sancho Nanny Smith neighborhood neighboring never Newfoundland dog Newstead Abbey night old Pluto once Palais Royal Paris passed passion Pluto poetical Regent Robin Hood royal ruined sail scene seemed Seneschal servants Sherwood Sherwood Forest Sir John Byron Somers spirit stood story sword Têtefoulques thou thought tion took tree Vanderscamp village walks walls wanderer whole wife Wild Goose wood worthy young youthful
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Página 164 - 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 69 - He had no breath, no being, but in hers ; She was his voice ; he did not speak to her...
Página 76 - Well ! thou art happy, and I feel That I should thus be happy too ; For still my heart regards thy weal Warmly, as it was wont to do. "Thy husband's blest — and 'twill impart Some pangs to view his happier lot : But let them pass — Oh ! how my heart Would hate him, if he loved thee not !
Página 60 - The love of higher things and better days ; The unbounded hope, and heavenly ignorance Of what is call'd the world, and the world's ways ; The moments when we gather from a glance More joy than from all future pride or praise, Which kindle manhood, but can ne'er entrance The heart in an existence of its own, Of which another's bosom is the zone.
Página 147 - 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 63 - twere the cape of a long ridge of such, Save that there was no sea to lave its base, But a most living landscape, and the wave Of woods and cornfields, and the abodes of men Scatter'd at intervals, and wreathing smoke Arising from such rustic roofs...
Página 85 - exclaims he, with a sudden burst of feeling, " why do I say my? Our union would have healed feuds in which blood had been shed by our fathers ; it would have joined lands broad and rich ; it would have joined at least one heart, and two persons not ill-matched in years — and — and — and — what has been the result ? ' ' But enough of Annesley Hall and the poetical themes connected with it.
Página 16 - But in a higher niche, alone, but crown'd, The Virgin -Mother of the God-born Child, With her Son in her blessed arms, look'd round, Spared by some chance when all beside was spoil'd : She made the earth below seem holy ground.
Página 83 - They had not their own lustre, but the look Which is not of the earth; she was become The queen of a fantastic realm; her thoughts Were combinations of disjointed things; And forms impalpable and unperceived Of others
Página 107 - Streaming from off the sun like seraph's wings, Now yawns all desolate: now loud, now fainter, The gale sweeps through its fretwork, and oft sings The owl his anthem, where the silenced quire Lie with their hallelujahs quench'd like fire.