An Old Castle and Other EssaysMacmillan, 1922 - 395 pagina's |
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Pagina 3
... later sad - faced Catherine of Aragon from her royal parents , Ferdinand and Isabella ; yonder tower where she lived for a few short months with her boy husband , Prince Arthur , is still called by her name . Pleasant hour of calm ...
... later sad - faced Catherine of Aragon from her royal parents , Ferdinand and Isabella ; yonder tower where she lived for a few short months with her boy husband , Prince Arthur , is still called by her name . Pleasant hour of calm ...
Pagina 12
... later at Ox- ford , with the keen intellectual curiosity of his age , the young man intermeddled with all learning , gaining what- soever was to be learned there , and , with powers of re- flection beyond his years , ripening his ...
... later at Ox- ford , with the keen intellectual curiosity of his age , the young man intermeddled with all learning , gaining what- soever was to be learned there , and , with powers of re- flection beyond his years , ripening his ...
Pagina 15
... later with words of Christian hope upon his lips . At his death , says his chaplain who watched by his side , he lifted up his eyes and hands uttering these words , " I would not change my joy for the empire of the world . " So passed ...
... later with words of Christian hope upon his lips . At his death , says his chaplain who watched by his side , he lifted up his eyes and hands uttering these words , " I would not change my joy for the empire of the world . " So passed ...
Pagina 16
... later days Chancellor of Oxford , founder of Pembroke College , the man who was , says Clarendon , the most universally beloved and esteemed of any in that age , we know , I say , that this young William Herbert , Mary Sidney's son and ...
... later days Chancellor of Oxford , founder of Pembroke College , the man who was , says Clarendon , the most universally beloved and esteemed of any in that age , we know , I say , that this young William Herbert , Mary Sidney's son and ...
Pagina 17
... later she was the most beautiful woman in England . Not Bessie Throgmorton , the fair maid of honor who became Walter Raleigh's wife , not Lucy Harrington , the lovely Countess of Bedford , not even her own cousin , the charming Eliza ...
... later she was the most beautiful woman in England . Not Bessie Throgmorton , the fair maid of honor who became Walter Raleigh's wife , not Lucy Harrington , the lovely Countess of Bedford , not even her own cousin , the charming Eliza ...
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Pagina 106 - When daffodils begin to peer, With heigh ! the doxy over the dale, Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year; For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale. The white sheet bleaching on the hedge, With heigh ! the sweet birds, O, how they sing! Doth set my pugging tooth on edge ; For a quart of ale is a dish for a king. The lark, that...
Pagina 47 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons...
Pagina 89 - Yare, yare, good Iras; quick. — Methinks, I hear Antony call; I see him rouse himself To praise my noble act; I hear him mock The luck of Caesar, which the gods give men To excuse their after wrath: Husband, I come: Now to that name my courage prove my title ! I am fire, and air; my other elements I give to baser life.
Pagina 39 - It was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o'er the green corn-field did pass In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding : Sweet lovers love the spring.
Pagina 110 - Even here undone ! I was not much afeard ; for once or twice I was about to speak and tell him plainly, The selfsame sun that shines upon his court Hides not his visage from our cottage but Looks on alike.
Pagina 325 - GROW old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in his hand Who saith, "A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!
Pagina 108 - I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so; and for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still, still so, and own No other function.
Pagina 60 - Hero had turned nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night; for, good youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont and being taken with the cramp was drowned; and the foolish chroniclers of that age found it was — Hero of Sestos. But these are all lies. Men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them. but not for love.
Pagina 247 - O' clod or stane, Adorns the histie stibble-field, Unseen, alane. There, in thy scanty mantle clad, Thy snawie bosom sun-ward spread, Thou lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise ; But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies ! Such is the fate of artless maid, Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade ! By love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all soil'd, is laid Low i
Pagina 89 - With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate Of life at once untie : poor venomous fool, Be angry, and dispatch.