Pen Sketches by a Vanished Hand: From the Papers of the Late Mortimer CollinsR. Bentley and son, 1879 |
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Pagina 18
... . On this very spot I first opened poor Arthur Clough's Bothie of Toper - na- Fuosich , which Macpherson of Oxford had sent me . How LECHLADE . 19 I revelled in those free spondaic hexameters 18 A WALK THROUGH BERKS .
... . On this very spot I first opened poor Arthur Clough's Bothie of Toper - na- Fuosich , which Macpherson of Oxford had sent me . How LECHLADE . 19 I revelled in those free spondaic hexameters 18 A WALK THROUGH BERKS .
Pagina 19
... Oxford vacation life in the Highlands ! Well I remember the enthusiasm excited in me by this , the most original poem of the age , and that I wrote to Clough ( then at Rome ) to express my delight . I have kept his reply to this day ...
... Oxford vacation life in the Highlands ! Well I remember the enthusiasm excited in me by this , the most original poem of the age , and that I wrote to Clough ( then at Rome ) to express my delight . I have kept his reply to this day ...
Pagina 23
... Oxford , Lincoln's lofty spires , Quaint arcades of dusky Chester , Olden town by sandy Dee , Muddy streets of stirring Bristol , — What are they to thee ? " However , here is Bristol ; and a friendly face awaiting me on the platform ...
... Oxford , Lincoln's lofty spires , Quaint arcades of dusky Chester , Olden town by sandy Dee , Muddy streets of stirring Bristol , — What are they to thee ? " However , here is Bristol ; and a friendly face awaiting me on the platform ...
Pagina 34
... cluster around the church and rectory . As the living is in the gift of Mag- dalen College , Oxford , it is probably a good one ; anyway A PORCINE ENTERTAINMENT . 35 the parsonage is charming , 34 A WALK THROUGH WILTS .
... cluster around the church and rectory . As the living is in the gift of Mag- dalen College , Oxford , it is probably a good one ; anyway A PORCINE ENTERTAINMENT . 35 the parsonage is charming , 34 A WALK THROUGH WILTS .
Pagina 47
... Oxford , sleeping anywhere but at country - inns . One night he made his poetic couch in the churchyard of Lechlade , a pleasant village on the borders of four counties , and celebrated the occurrence in five divinely mystical stanzas ...
... Oxford , sleeping anywhere but at country - inns . One night he made his poetic couch in the churchyard of Lechlade , a pleasant village on the borders of four counties , and celebrated the occurrence in five divinely mystical stanzas ...
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Pen Sketches by a Vanished Hand: From the Papers of the Late ..., Volume 2 Mortimer Collins Volledige weergave - 1879 |
Pen Sketches by a Vanished Hand: From the Papers of the Late ..., Volume 2 Mortimer Collins Volledige weergave - 1879 |
Pen Sketches by a Vanished Hand: From the Papers of the Late ..., Volume 2 Mortimer Collins Volledige weergave - 1879 |
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Abbey Amersham amid ancient Avon Aylesbury backsword Bath beautiful Berkshire Bishop Bledlow brilliant Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnham Beeches Cæsar called Castle cathedral Catullus centuries charming Chinnor church Coningsby cottage cross delicious delight dine dinner divine Earl East Ilsley England English epigram Eton exquisite famous fellows forest gardens gentleman green Guy's Cliff Hampden Henley hill Horace hostelry John Hampden King Kingston Lisle ladies landlord lawn Lechlade lived London look Lord lyrical Magdalen Maidenhead Matthew Arnold mighty miles morning Mortimer Collins never noble Oxford park pass picturesque pleasant poem poet poetic poetry pretty Prince quaint railway Reigate river road Roman Salisbury seems Southampton spire stone Street summer Thames Theodore Hook tower town traveller trees verse village walk Warwick whitebait Wiltshire Windsor wine wonder woods write wrote young
Populaire passages
Pagina 156 - My good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance thrusteth sure, My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.
Pagina 250 - Out upon it, I have loved Three whole days together! And am like to love three more. If it prove fair weather. Time shall moult away his wings Ere he shall discover In the whole wide world again Such a constant lover. But the spite on 't is, no praise Is due at all to me: Love with me had made no stays.
Pagina 87 - And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection, — to beauty, in a word, io which is only truth seen from another side?
Pagina 248 - In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow ; Hast so much wit, and mirth, and spleen about thee, There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
Pagina 58 - Here thou, great ANNA ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea.
Pagina 154 - Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly ; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.
Pagina 188 - Thus this brook has conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean; and thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over.
Pagina 56 - Torquatus volo parvulus Matris e gremio suae Porrigens teneras manus Dulce rideat ad patrem Semihiante labello.
Pagina 71 - Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Pagina 33 - A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses.