The Living Age, 213. köideLiving Age Company, 1897 |
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... light that wans thy face . Solemnly breaks the long wave at thy feet ; And sullenly in patches clings the snow Upon the low , red rocks worn round with years . I see thine eyes , I see their grave desire , Unsatisfied and lonely as the ...
... light that wans thy face . Solemnly breaks the long wave at thy feet ; And sullenly in patches clings the snow Upon the low , red rocks worn round with years . I see thine eyes , I see their grave desire , Unsatisfied and lonely as the ...
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... light meetings were illegal , this assembly had gath- ered by the light of a waning long since hidden by the clouds . Amid the storm of wind and rain , orators had expounded views as wild as night itself , to which the hard - visaged ...
... light meetings were illegal , this assembly had gath- ered by the light of a waning long since hidden by the clouds . Amid the storm of wind and rain , orators had expounded views as wild as night itself , to which the hard - visaged ...
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... light - hearted débonnaire - at the far end of the table . When Sir John's thoughtful eyes rested on his mother- less son a dull and suppressed light gleamed momentarily beneath his heavy lids . Superficial observers said that John ...
... light - hearted débonnaire - at the far end of the table . When Sir John's thoughtful eyes rested on his mother- less son a dull and suppressed light gleamed momentarily beneath his heavy lids . Superficial observers said that John ...
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... light has flashed at least upon western Europe and an un- easy consciousness that nations as well as cabinets are concerned in what has been and is going on has taken strong hold upon the public mind , and the time seems to have come ...
... light has flashed at least upon western Europe and an un- easy consciousness that nations as well as cabinets are concerned in what has been and is going on has taken strong hold upon the public mind , and the time seems to have come ...
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... light airs attest your changing lot . Gourds droop2 no more as you mount up on high ; " How beautiful ! " she said as she fin- ished reading . " Not only are all the rhymes got in , but the initial words are introduced quite as though ...
... light airs attest your changing lot . Gourds droop2 no more as you mount up on high ; " How beautiful ! " she said as she fin- ished reading . " Not only are all the rhymes got in , but the initial words are introduced quite as though ...
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Page 291 - When the morning stars sang together, and the sons of God shouted for joy.
Page 301 - Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too...
Page 299 - To one who has been long in city pent, 'Tis very sweet to look into the fair And open face of heaven, — to breathe a prayer Full in the smile of the blue firmament.
Page 533 - While fly and leaf and insect stood revealed, That to such countless orbs thou mad'st us blind ? Why do we then shun death with anxious strife ? If light can thus deceive, wherefore not life ? — JOSEPH BLANCO WHITE.
Page 299 - IN a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne'er remember Their green felicity: The north cannot undo them, With a sleety whistle through them; Nor frozen thawings glue them From budding at the prime.
Page 302 - Half-hidden, like a mermaid in sea-weed, Pensive awhile she dreams awake, and sees, In fancy, fair St. Agnes in her bed, But dares not look behind, or all the charm is fled.
Page 277 - Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural ; and afterwards that which is spiritual.
Page 227 - Arise to thee; the children call, and I Thy shepherd pipe, and sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moan of doves in immemorial elms. And murmuring of innumerable bees.
Page 665 - At the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, society was in a state of excitement.
Page 209 - Cressid's name the very crown of falsehood, If ever she leave Troilus ! Time, force, and death, Do to this body what extremes you can ; But the strong base and building of my love Is as the very centre of the earth, Drawing all things to it.