An Old Castle and Other EssaysMacmillan, 1922 - 395 pagina's |
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Pagina viii
... means of conveying that knowledge to others . Vivid and dear memories flash into the minds of many of us as we read these pages . We see that dignified figure come quietly into the crowded lecture - hall to make Shake- speare or ...
... means of conveying that knowledge to others . Vivid and dear memories flash into the minds of many of us as we read these pages . We see that dignified figure come quietly into the crowded lecture - hall to make Shake- speare or ...
Pagina xiii
... means let us rejoice at assisting in a grammarian's funeral - the elevated funeral upon the mountain top . But for interest we must go to life - the life common to all who pass from darkness into darkness through this dimly torch- lit ...
... means let us rejoice at assisting in a grammarian's funeral - the elevated funeral upon the mountain top . But for interest we must go to life - the life common to all who pass from darkness into darkness through this dimly torch- lit ...
Pagina xvii
... means of which they can convey their thought not only with all its flexures of meaning but with all its delicate nimbus of emotion . But Swift needed no such niceties , for there was no subtlety or delicacy in his nature . Literary ...
... means of which they can convey their thought not only with all its flexures of meaning but with all its delicate nimbus of emotion . But Swift needed no such niceties , for there was no subtlety or delicacy in his nature . Literary ...
Pagina 23
... mean , selfish sort . With truth could he say the great ends he aimed at were " his country's , God's , and truth's . " At home he was the ornament of his age . No mean poet himself , he was the best friend of other poets ; but for his ...
... mean , selfish sort . With truth could he say the great ends he aimed at were " his country's , God's , and truth's . " At home he was the ornament of his age . No mean poet himself , he was the best friend of other poets ; but for his ...
Pagina 30
... mean philosopher beside . Not a very great man , perhaps , this Ben Jonson , but certainly a very big He carried about a deal of hard common sense , and he could use it on occasion . It would have been wise to agree with him , for like ...
... mean philosopher beside . Not a very great man , perhaps , this Ben Jonson , but certainly a very big He carried about a deal of hard common sense , and he could use it on occasion . It would have been wise to agree with him , for like ...
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Populaire passages
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.