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Page 127 - How often have I paused on every charm, The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topped the neighbouring hill, The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made. How often have I blest the coming day When toil remitting lent its turn to play!
Page 169 - They may tell tales, too, of Jons Lundsbracka, and Lunkenfus and the great Riddar Finke of Pingsdaga.* And now the glad, leafy mid-summer, full of blossoms and the song of nightingales is come ! Saint John has taken the flowers and festival of heathen Balder; and in every village
Page 202 - if the language of theology were extracted from Hooker and the translation of the Bible ; the terms of natural knowledge from Bacon ; the phrases of policy, war, and navigation from Rakigh; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney; and the diction of
Page 344 - The air was sad, — but sadder still It fell on Marmion's ear, And plained as if disgrace and ill And shameful death were near. He drew his mantle past his face, Between it and the band, And rested with his head a space Reclining on his hand. His thoughts I scan not;
Page 165 - of the country, as large as your two hands. You meet, also, groups of Dalekarlian peasant women, travelling homeward or city-ward in pursuit of work. They walk barefoot, carrying in their hands their shoes, which have high heels under the hollow of the foot, and the soles of birch bark.
Page 169 - shall be sung, and sermons preached ; " And all the bells on earth shall ring, And all the angels in heaven shall sing On Christmas day in the morning." But for Swedish peasants, brandy and nut-brown ale in wooden bowls; and the great Yule-cake
Page 165 - and coriander in it, and perhaps a little pine bark.* Meanwhile the sturdy husband has brought his horses from the plough, and harnessed them to your carriage. Solitary travellers come and go in uncouth one-horse chaises. Most of them have pipes in their mouths, and, hanging around their necks in front, a leathern wallet, wherein they carry tobacco, and
Page 170 - From his swallow's nest in the belfry he can see the sun all night long ; and farther north the priest stands at his door in the warm midnight, and lights his pipe with a common burning-glass. And all this while the good bishop of Wexio is waiting with his poem in his hand. And such a
Page 170 - From the church-tower in the public square the bell tolls the hour, with a soft, musical chime ; and the watchman, whose watch-tower is the belfry, blows a blast in his horn, for each stroke of the hammer, and four times, to the four corners of the heavens, in a sonorous voice
Page 47 - and verbs, their principles of regimen and concord, and these deposited in all the public libraries, it would furnish opportunities to those skilled in the languages of the old world, to compare them with these now, or at any future time, and hence to construct the best evidence of the derivation of this part of the human