An Old Castle and Other EssaysMacmillan, 1922 - 395 pagina's |
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... seems so tame and well- trodden . One wasted part of genius so valuable to man- kind in proving that the Odyssey was written by a girl , as though that mattered ; another that Dante's Beatrice was a species of theology ; another that ...
... seems so tame and well- trodden . One wasted part of genius so valuable to man- kind in proving that the Odyssey was written by a girl , as though that mattered ; another that Dante's Beatrice was a species of theology ; another that ...
Pagina 8
... ' Bliss was it then to be alive , but to be young was very heaven ! ' Our age is doubtless best for you and me ; but never again will the pulse of humanity bound so high , never again , it seems 8 AN OLD CASTLE AND OTHER ESSAYS.
... ' Bliss was it then to be alive , but to be young was very heaven ! ' Our age is doubtless best for you and me ; but never again will the pulse of humanity bound so high , never again , it seems 8 AN OLD CASTLE AND OTHER ESSAYS.
Pagina 9
... seems to me , can there be so much to rouse curiosity and stimulate imagina- tion , as in that morning of modern life . The story of those days told even now over the lapse of three cold centuries stirs the blood like a trumpet peal ...
... seems to me , can there be so much to rouse curiosity and stimulate imagina- tion , as in that morning of modern life . The story of those days told even now over the lapse of three cold centuries stirs the blood like a trumpet peal ...
Pagina 20
... seems to have passed from brutal abuse to stolid indiffer- ence , and after a few years he left her altogether . Then came the wild story of her brother Robert to cast a more lurid light and then a deeper shadow over her path . The out ...
... seems to have passed from brutal abuse to stolid indiffer- ence , and after a few years he left her altogether . Then came the wild story of her brother Robert to cast a more lurid light and then a deeper shadow over her path . The out ...
Pagina 21
... seems to have sunk in despair of happiness or of virtue . One sees her again at the court of James , her wonderful charm yet undimmed ; but one doesn't like to think of Philip Sidney's Stella as shining in that basest of courts . Yet ...
... seems to have sunk in despair of happiness or of virtue . One sees her again at the court of James , her wonderful charm yet undimmed ; but one doesn't like to think of Philip Sidney's Stella as shining in that basest of courts . Yet ...
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
admiration Alcott Antony Antony and Cleopatra beauty Ben Jonson better Bolingbroke Browning Browning's Burns Cæsar called century character charm Church Cleopatra Clough comedy death Duchess Duke emotion England English eyes father feeling forest of Arden friends grace heart Henry Sidney Hermione human humor imagination interest Ireland Irish Jonathan Swift kind King knew lady Leontes literary literature lived London look Lord Lord Bolingbroke lover Mary Sidney misanthropy moral nature never noble once Orlando party passion Penelope Devereux Perdita Philip Sidney pity play Plutarch poem poet poetry political prose Queen Anne remember Robert Browning Robert Burns Rosalind Ruskin satire seems sense sentiment Shakespeare Sidney Sordello soul spirit story sure sweet Swift temper thee things thou thought tion Tory truth verse Whigs Winter's Tale woman words writing wrote young
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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.