Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the CountryN.R. Mitchell & Company, 1881 - 296 páginas |
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Página 126 - No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm : So hallow'd and so gracious is the time." The flight of the Pagan mythology before the new faith has been a favourite subject with the poets ; and it has been my custom for many seasons to read Milton's " Hymn to the Nativity
Página 140 - truculent visage, and Beaumont and Fletcher sitting together in their beautiful friendship, and fancy as best we can the drollery, the repartee, the sage sentences, the lightning gleams of wit, the thunder-peals of laughter. " What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ? Heard words that
Página 128 - fled, Hath left in shadows dread His burning idol, all of blackest hue : In vain with cymbals' ring They call the grisly king In dismal dance about the furnace blue : The brutish gods of Nile as fast, Isis, and Orus, and the dog Anubis haste.
Página 128 - He feels from Juda's land The dreaded Infant's hand, The rays of Bethlehem blind his dusky eyne : Nor all the gods beside Dare longer there abide, Not Typhon huge ending in snaky twine. Our Babe to shew His Godhead true Can in His swaddling bands control the damned crew.
Página 128 - Heaven's queen and mother both, Now sits not girt with tapers' holy shine ! The Lybic Hammon shrinks his horn, In vain the Tyrian maids their wounded Thammuz mourn.
Página 49 - (which is the tenderest of affections,) provoked many to die, out of meer compassion to their soveraigne, and as the truest sort of followers It is as naturall to die as to be borne; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painfull as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit is like one that is wounded in hot
Página 248 - as in a theatre,—the stage is time, the play is the play of the world. What a spectacle it is! What kingly pomp, what processions file past, what cities burn to heaven, what crowds of captives are dragged at the chariot-wheels of conquerors! I hiss or cry "Bravo" when the great actors come on
Página 62 - sleep referred to being death. This was meant to take away the reader's breath; and after performing the feat, Byron betook himself to his pillow with a sense of supreme cleverness. Contrast with this Shakspeare's far out-looking and thought-heavy lines—lines which, under the same image, represent death— " To die—to sleep ;— To sleep! perchance to dream ;—ay, there's the rub ; For in that sleep
Página 83 - man, Nor made this merry, gentle nightingale; Her sound went with the river as it ran Out throw the fresh and flourished lusty vale." And now a spring morning— " Ere Phoebus was in purple cape revest, Up raise the lark, the heaven's minstrel fine In May, in till a morrow
Página 201 - on, would gleam on the canvas of Mr Millais !— " 'For in may come my seven bauld brothers, Wi' torches burning bright.' " It was about the midnight hour, And they were fa'en asleep, When in and came her seven brothers, And stood at her bed feet. " Then out and spake the first o