Old Shrines and IvyMacmillan & Company, 1892 - 296 páginas |
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... CHURCH 31 IV . A STRATFORD CHRONICLE 40 V. FROM LONDON TO DOVER 55 VI . BEAUTIES OF FRANCE 66 • VII . ELY AND ITS CATHEDRAL • 75 VIII . FROM EDINBURGH TO INVERNESS , 86 IX . THE FIELD OF CULLODEN 98 X. STORM - BOUND IN IONA . 107 СНАР ...
... CHURCH 31 IV . A STRATFORD CHRONICLE 40 V. FROM LONDON TO DOVER 55 VI . BEAUTIES OF FRANCE 66 • VII . ELY AND ITS CATHEDRAL • 75 VIII . FROM EDINBURGH TO INVERNESS , 86 IX . THE FIELD OF CULLODEN 98 X. STORM - BOUND IN IONA . 107 СНАР ...
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... church that still frowns upon the lonely square and would make a darkness even at noon . A few steps from St. Michael's will bring you to a relic of a different kind , fraught with widely different associations - the birth- place of the ...
... church that still frowns upon the lonely square and would make a darkness even at noon . A few steps from St. Michael's will bring you to a relic of a different kind , fraught with widely different associations - the birth- place of the ...
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... church in his honour , just above Bar Gate , but have set up his statue ( by Mr. Lucas ) in the park , — the figure of the apostolic bard as he appeared when in the act to preach . That piece of sculpture the pedestal of which is faced ...
... church in his honour , just above Bar Gate , but have set up his statue ( by Mr. Lucas ) in the park , — the figure of the apostolic bard as he appeared when in the act to preach . That piece of sculpture the pedestal of which is faced ...
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... where there is an old church , and wherein the adjacent cemetery - an obe- lisk of granite marks the resting - place of the poet Robert Pollock , author of The - Course of Time a poem much read and admired 22 STORIED SOUTHAMPTON .
... where there is an old church , and wherein the adjacent cemetery - an obe- lisk of granite marks the resting - place of the poet Robert Pollock , author of The - Course of Time a poem much read and admired 22 STORIED SOUTHAMPTON .
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... church and castle , lawn and past- ure , clouds that are like cloth of bronze , and earth that is clad in emerald and scarlet ; while over the broad expanse of this various loveliness , in which the fresh garlands of Nature deck with ...
... church and castle , lawn and past- ure , clouds that are like cloth of bronze , and earth that is clad in emerald and scarlet ; while over the broad expanse of this various loveliness , in which the fresh garlands of Nature deck with ...
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Página 180 - I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, — past the wit of man to say what dream it was: — Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream.
Página 37 - And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the Lord came, saying, Israel shall be thy name : and with the stones he built an altar in the name of the Lord : and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.
Página 218 - O, wither'd is the garland of the war, The soldier's pole is fall'n : young boys and girls Are level now with men ; the odds is gone, And there is nothing left remarkable Beneath the visiting moon.
Página 197 - Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugred Sonnets among his private friends, &c. — As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latines, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...
Página 180 - The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.
Página 253 - Dear Bob, — I have not anything to leave thee, to perpetuate my memory, but two helpless girls ; look upon them, sometimes ; and think of him that was, to the last moment of his life, thine, — GEORGE FARQUHAR.
Página 190 - A | Pleasant | Conceited Comedie | called, | Loues labors, lost. | As it was presented before her Highnes | this last Christmas. | Newly corrected and augmented | By W. Shakespere.
Página 296 - The verse of Mr. Winter is dedicated mainly to love and wine, to flowers and birds and dreams, to the hackneyed and never- to-be-exhausted repertory of the old singers. His instincts are strongly conservative; his confessed aim is to belong to ' that old school of English Lyrical Poetry, of which gentleness is the soul, and simplicity the garment.
Página 269 - Longfellow liked to talk of young poets, and he had an equally humorous and kind way of noticing the foibles of the literary character. Standing in the porch, one summer day, and observing the noble elms in front of his house, he recalled a visit made to him, long before, by one of the many bards, now extinct, who are embalmed in Griswold. Then suddenly assuming a burly, martial air, he seemed to reproduce for me the exact figure and manner of the youthful enthusiast — who had...