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Pagina 9
The faded woods a sallow livery wear ; Each leaf that quivers on the drooping spray , Or , with the transient breeze - fit drops adown , Speaking , in tones of deepest influence , of the decay of all things , of the pomp How passing ...
The faded woods a sallow livery wear ; Each leaf that quivers on the drooping spray , Or , with the transient breeze - fit drops adown , Speaking , in tones of deepest influence , of the decay of all things , of the pomp How passing ...
Pagina 18
His house had long since passed two balf - naked children , flings the low- out of his own bands : not a soul could est throw . be found anywhere to lend him a shilImmediately the officer's voice was ling . The sickly widow of Weber ...
His house had long since passed two balf - naked children , flings the low- out of his own bands : not a soul could est throw . be found anywhere to lend him a shilImmediately the officer's voice was ling . The sickly widow of Weber ...
Pagina 21
... expression of his countenterritory , to which he resorted so often , ance he appeared to be just saying , that he kept lodgings there constantly , “ Blessed are the dead that die in the he passed Whitsunday with impatience Lord .
... expression of his countenterritory , to which he resorted so often , ance he appeared to be just saying , that he kept lodgings there constantly , “ Blessed are the dead that die in the he passed Whitsunday with impatience Lord .
Pagina 23
... whose love of pomp and nightingales : * they were all and display led her eagerly to catch at abroad , but not for him , or his delight . every pretext for creating a féte , had A crowd of itinerant tradesmen passed invited a party ...
... whose love of pomp and nightingales : * they were all and display led her eagerly to catch at abroad , but not for him , or his delight . every pretext for creating a féte , had A crowd of itinerant tradesmen passed invited a party ...
Pagina 24
“ Who then has told you that I have On the journey his chief anxiety passed my time with an old parson ? " was - lest the clergyman , who was al- said the astonished Schroll . ready advanced in years , at the memo- “ Who told me ?
“ Who then has told you that I have On the journey his chief anxiety passed my time with an old parson ? " was - lest the clergyman , who was al- said the astonished Schroll . ready advanced in years , at the memo- “ Who told me ?
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Pagina 100 - And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Pagina 102 - ALL worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The Sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its immortality ! I saw a vision in my sleep, That gave my spirit strength to sweep Adown the gulf of Time ! I saw the last of human mould That shall Creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prime...
Pagina 103 - ... curtain fall Upon the stage of men. Nor with thy rising beams recall Life's tragedy again: Its piteous pageants bring not back, Nor waken flesh, upon the rack Of pain anew to writhe; Stretched in disease's shapes abhorred, Or mown in battle by the sword, Like grass beneath the scythe.
Pagina 102 - The Sun's eye had a sickly glare, The Earth with age was wan. The skeletons of nations were Around that lonely man ! Some had expired in fight, — the brands Still rusted in their bony hands ; In plague and famine some ! Earth's cities had no sound nor tread And ships were drifting with the dead To shores where all was dumb...
Pagina 209 - one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.
Pagina 166 - Inquireth if you have had your arms done on vellum yet; and did not know, till lately, that such-and-such had been the crest of the family. His memory is unseasonable; his compliments perverse; his talk a trouble; his stay pertinacious; and when he goeth away, you dismiss his chair into a corner as precipitately as possible, and feel fairly rid of two nuisances.
Pagina 103 - What though beneath thee man put forth His pomp, his pride, his skill ; And arts that made fire, flood, and earth, The vassals of his will ; — Yet mourn I not thy parted sway, Thou dim discrowned king of day...
Pagina 166 - He may require to be repressed sometimes — aliquando sufflaminandus erat — but there is no raising her. You send her soup at dinner, and she begs to be helped — after the gentlemen. Mr. requests the honour of taking wine with her; she hesitates between Port and Madeira, and chooses the former — because he does. She calls the servant Sir; and insists on not troubling him to hold her plate.
Pagina 43 - Sublime tobacco ! which from east to west Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest ; Which on the Moslem's ottoman divides His hours, and rivals opium and his brides...
Pagina 62 - If you pour a glut of water upon a bottle, it receives little of it; but with a funnel, and by degrees, you shall fill many of them, and spill little of your own; to their capacity they will all receive, and be full.