Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time, with Other PapersTicknor and Fields, 1859 - 461 pagina's |
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... land : but , impoverished , he had settled down upon the wreck of his estate , in that poor farm - house . No record of him now remains ; but he must have been a man worth knowing and worth loving , or he would not have won the wife he ...
... land : but , impoverished , he had settled down upon the wreck of his estate , in that poor farm - house . No record of him now remains ; but he must have been a man worth knowing and worth loving , or he would not have won the wife he ...
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... land of gold and gems . For before this boy's mind , as before all intense English minds of that day , rise , from the first , three fixed ideas , which yet are but one - the Pope , the Spaniard , and America . The first two are the ...
... land of gold and gems . For before this boy's mind , as before all intense English minds of that day , rise , from the first , three fixed ideas , which yet are but one - the Pope , the Spaniard , and America . The first two are the ...
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... land , and to water their ships , even to trade , under exorbitant restric- tions ; but generally this is merely a trap for them . Forces are hurried up ; and the English are attacked treacherously , in spite of solemn compacts ; for ...
... land , and to water their ships , even to trade , under exorbitant restric- tions ; but generally this is merely a trap for them . Forces are hurried up ; and the English are attacked treacherously , in spite of solemn compacts ; for ...
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... land which the sea - kings bring home ; on the profound ( for those times at least ) knowledge which prompted Raleigh to make the attempt in that particular direction , which had as yet escaped the notice of the Spaniards ; on the quiet ...
... land which the sea - kings bring home ; on the profound ( for those times at least ) knowledge which prompted Raleigh to make the attempt in that particular direction , which had as yet escaped the notice of the Spaniards ; on the quiet ...
Pagina 24
... land , " as they called it themselves , which seems to us fantastic , and would be fantastic in us , because we are not at their work , or in their days . There can be no doubt that a num- ber of as noble men as ever stood together on ...
... land , " as they called it themselves , which seems to us fantastic , and would be fantastic in us , because we are not at their work , or in their days . There can be no doubt that a num- ber of as noble men as ever stood together on ...
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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.