Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time, with Other PapersTicknor and Fields, 1859 - 461 pagina's |
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... consider our level ; to rationalize away all the wonders , till we make them at last impossible , and give up caring to believe them ; and prove to our own melancholy sat- isfaction that Alexander conquered the world with a pin , in his ...
... consider our level ; to rationalize away all the wonders , till we make them at last impossible , and give up caring to believe them ; and prove to our own melancholy sat- isfaction that Alexander conquered the world with a pin , in his ...
Pagina 14
... consider that this young Quixote is the close relation of two of the finest public men then living , Champernoun and Carew . That he is a friend of Sidney ; a pet of Leicester ; that he has left behind him at Oxford , and brought with ...
... consider that this young Quixote is the close relation of two of the finest public men then living , Champernoun and Carew . That he is a friend of Sidney ; a pet of Leicester ; that he has left behind him at Oxford , and brought with ...
Pagina 33
... consider as lit- tle better than a pirate , and that , too , in days when the noblest blood in England thought no shame ( as indeed it was no shame ) to enrich themselves with Spanish gold . But so it is throughout this man's life . If ...
... consider as lit- tle better than a pirate , and that , too , in days when the noblest blood in England thought no shame ( as indeed it was no shame ) to enrich themselves with Spanish gold . But so it is throughout this man's life . If ...
Pagina 43
... consider himself a very happy man if all that befalls to him thereby is what befell Essex , dep- rivation of his offices , and imprisonment in his own house . He is forgiven after all ; but the spoilt child refuses his bread and butter ...
... consider himself a very happy man if all that befalls to him thereby is what befell Essex , dep- rivation of his offices , and imprisonment in his own house . He is forgiven after all ; but the spoilt child refuses his bread and butter ...
Pagina 72
... consider to be a Nemesis . If to have found England one of the greatest countries in Europe , and to have left it one of the most incon- siderable and despicable ; if to be fooled by flatterers to the top of his vent , until he fancied ...
... consider to be a Nemesis . If to have found England one of the greatest countries in Europe , and to have left it one of the most incon- siderable and despicable ; if to be fooled by flatterers to the top of his vent , until he fancied ...
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Pagina 111 - Whom lovely Venus, at a birth, With two sister Graces more, To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore ; Or whether (as some sager sing) The frolic wind that breathes the spring, Zephyr, with Aurora playing, As he met her once a-Maying...
Pagina 187 - Sweet and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea, Low, low, breathe and blow, Wind of the western sea ! Over the rolling waters go, Come from the dying moon, and blow, Blow him again to me ; While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps.
Pagina 183 - Yearning for the large excitement that the coming years would yield, Eager-hearted as a boy when first he leaves his father's field, And at night along the dusky highway near and nearer drawn, Sees in heaven the light of London flaring like a dreary dawn...
Pagina 376 - Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last— far off— at last, to all, And every winter change to spring. So runs my dream ; but what am I ? An infant crying in the night ; An infant crying for the light, And with no language but a cry.
Pagina 183 - Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new : That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do : For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be...
Pagina 90 - Dower'd with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.
Pagina 182 - Camelot ; And up and down the people go, Gazing where the lilies blow Round an island there below, The island of Shalott. Willows whiten, aspens quiver, Little breezes dusk and shiver Thro...
Pagina 181 - He cometh not,' she said; She said, 'I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!
Pagina 183 - In the stormy east-wind straining, The pale yellow woods were waning. The broad stream in his banks complaining, Heavily the low sky raining Over...
Pagina 103 - I pray thee, look thou giv'st my little boy Some syrup for his cold, and let the girl Say her prayers ere she sleep. Now what you please : What death? Bos. Strangling; here are your executioners. Duch. I forgive them: The apoplexy, catarrh, or cough o' the lungs, Would do as much as they do.