Temple Bar, 108. köideGeorge Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates Ward and Lock, 1896 |
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... brought back the bottle . " Yes , it was there . You had put some of your papers on to it . " " Thanks very much . I hope you took care not to disturb the papers . " " No , I disturbed nothing . Will you have some now ? " " No , I've ...
... brought back the bottle . " Yes , it was there . You had put some of your papers on to it . " " Thanks very much . I hope you took care not to disturb the papers . " " No , I disturbed nothing . Will you have some now ? " " No , I've ...
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... brought a savour with it of Paris days , and Paris days could hardly help being antidotal to the feelings with which Maud Wrexham inspired him . There was yet one more factor which made him plunge into his work , and that was the ...
... brought a savour with it of Paris days , and Paris days could hardly help being antidotal to the feelings with which Maud Wrexham inspired him . There was yet one more factor which made him plunge into his work , and that was the ...
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... brought the clouds out of the sea , and about one o'clock the rain came down , and laid the dust . Then the sun shone violently till nearly five , and the air was like unto a sticky warm bath . Later on it had clouded over again , and ...
... brought the clouds out of the sea , and about one o'clock the rain came down , and laid the dust . Then the sun shone violently till nearly five , and the air was like unto a sticky warm bath . Later on it had clouded over again , and ...
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... brought him into intimate relations with Carnac , Pearson , Clive , Warren Hastings , and many others of the illus- trious actors in that stirring Asiatic drama . With Cook to talk of Otaheite , and Clive of Surajah Dowlah , with the ...
... brought him into intimate relations with Carnac , Pearson , Clive , Warren Hastings , and many others of the illus- trious actors in that stirring Asiatic drama . With Cook to talk of Otaheite , and Clive of Surajah Dowlah , with the ...
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... be got in Rebensdorf , and that Jettchen could be brought to conceive of a polish not quite so far removed from the Day and Martin standard . V. Now it so happened that Bennet's picture was admitted A BLACK FOREST LORELEI . 109.
... be got in Rebensdorf , and that Jettchen could be brought to conceive of a polish not quite so far removed from the Day and Martin standard . V. Now it so happened that Bennet's picture was admitted A BLACK FOREST LORELEI . 109.
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Page 396 - And all their echoes mourn. The willows and the hazel copses green Shall now no more be seen Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays. As killing as the canker to the rose...
Page 392 - Midst others of less note, came one frail Form, A phantom among men; companionless As the last cloud of an expiring storm Whose thunder is its knell; he, as I guess, Had gazed on Nature's naked loveliness, Actaeon-like, and now he fled astray With feeble steps o'er the world's wilderness, And his own thoughts, along that rugged way, Pursued, like raging hounds, their father and their prey.
Page 394 - Too rare, too rare, grow now my visits here! 'Mid city-noise, not, as with thee of yore, Thyrsis! in reach of sheep-bells is my home. — Then through the great town's harsh, heart-wearying roar, Let in thy voice a whisper often come, To chase fatigue and fear: Why faintest thou? I wandered till I died. Roam on! The light we sought is shining still. Dost thou ask -proof? Our tree yet crowns the hill, Our Scholar travels yet the loved hillside.
Page 200 - ABOU BEN ADHEM (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold: Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, "What writest thou?" The vision raised its head, And, with a look made of all sweet accord, Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord.
Page 391 - Pass, till the Spirit of the spot shall lead Thy footsteps to a slope of green access, Where, like an infant's smile, over the dead A light of laughing flowers along the grass is spread.
Page 200 - The angel wrote, and vanished. The next night It came again, with a great wakening light, And showed the names whom love of God had blest, And, lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest.
Page 536 - Paulo Purganti and his Wife." JOHNSON. " Sir, there is nothing there, but that his wife wanted to be kissed, when poor Paulo was out of pocket. No, Sir, Prior is a lady's book. No lady is ashamed to have it standing in her library.
Page 200 - ... his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold : Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, " What writest thou ?" The vision raised its head, And with a look made of all sweet accord, Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord.
Page 337 - Car nous voulons la Nuance encor, Pas la couleur, rien que la nuance! Oh! la nuance seule fiance Le rêve au rêve et la flûte au cor!
Page 35 - It fortifies my soul to know That, though I perish, Truth is so : That, howsoe'er I stray and range, Whate'er I do, Thou dost not change. I steadier step when I recall That, if I slip, Thou dost not falL 'PERCHE PENSA?