Pen Sketches by a Vanished Hand: From the Papers of the Late Mortimer CollinsR. Bentley and son, 1879 |
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Pagina 2
... green lanes of Berkshire . What would not a tour in Warwick- shire in Shakespeare's days be worth now ? Well , a couple of centuries hence our posterity will be far more interested in the England than in the Italy or Egypt of 1863. Ay ...
... green lanes of Berkshire . What would not a tour in Warwick- shire in Shakespeare's days be worth now ? Well , a couple of centuries hence our posterity will be far more interested in the England than in the Italy or Egypt of 1863. Ay ...
Pagina 5
... green in these maps . At present the various parks are tinted green ; but the wide open country , the undulating chalk - hills , where there are no habitations for miles except shepherds ' huts and training - stables , the pleasant ...
... green in these maps . At present the various parks are tinted green ; but the wide open country , the undulating chalk - hills , where there are no habitations for miles except shepherds ' huts and training - stables , the pleasant ...
Pagina 16
... green grass- those great red oxen that are almost buried in the abun- dant meadow - grass of North Devon - surely their flesh must be wholesomer than that of creatures that are fed in close stalls upon some patent manufactured food . It ...
... green grass- those great red oxen that are almost buried in the abun- dant meadow - grass of North Devon - surely their flesh must be wholesomer than that of creatures that are fed in close stalls upon some patent manufactured food . It ...
Pagina 23
... green romantic hills , with lazy Avon creeping through the valley , how many are my reminiscences of thee ! " Well I love thee , pleasant city , Fairest far in all our shires ! Though we think of Gothic Oxford , Lincoln's lofty spires ...
... green romantic hills , with lazy Avon creeping through the valley , how many are my reminiscences of thee ! " Well I love thee , pleasant city , Fairest far in all our shires ! Though we think of Gothic Oxford , Lincoln's lofty spires ...
Pagina 29
... green leafage quaint old cottages are buried - habitations in which a dreamer might wholly forget the turmoil of the world . Heartily sorry were we to lose Avon's pleasant companionship - to hear no more its tinkling voice over the pebbles ...
... green leafage quaint old cottages are buried - habitations in which a dreamer might wholly forget the turmoil of the world . Heartily sorry were we to lose Avon's pleasant companionship - to hear no more its tinkling voice over the pebbles ...
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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.