Pen Sketches by a Vanished Hand: From the Papers of the Late Mortimer CollinsR. Bentley and son, 1879 |
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Pagina xi
... remarkable Whether he made the most of his power is doubtful . He certainly made no attempt to reserve it . Both physical and mental strength were extravagantly wasted . He would never take the trouble to alter or polish anything he had ...
... remarkable Whether he made the most of his power is doubtful . He certainly made no attempt to reserve it . Both physical and mental strength were extravagantly wasted . He would never take the trouble to alter or polish anything he had ...
Pagina 19
... remarkable , but entirely indescribable . It was thus with me at Lech- lade . The somnolent little town was unchanged - un- changed as the river Isis , upon which it stands . The very same grocer was selling tea and sugar over the very ...
... remarkable , but entirely indescribable . It was thus with me at Lech- lade . The somnolent little town was unchanged - un- changed as the river Isis , upon which it stands . The very same grocer was selling tea and sugar over the very ...
Pagina 28
... remarkable since the apparition one afternoon of a “ dashing gent , " with a gun and a couple of dogs , who was walking from the Land's End to London , and being money - bound had pawned his watch at Salisbury , and who had insisted on ...
... remarkable since the apparition one afternoon of a “ dashing gent , " with a gun and a couple of dogs , who was walking from the Land's End to London , and being money - bound had pawned his watch at Salisbury , and who had insisted on ...
Pagina 40
... remarkable points . Corsley is said to have been the scene of that famous incident in Sir Walter Raleigh's life , when his too affectionate servitor , seeing him emit clouds of smoke from his mouth , and smelling the unknown odour of ...
... remarkable points . Corsley is said to have been the scene of that famous incident in Sir Walter Raleigh's life , when his too affectionate servitor , seeing him emit clouds of smoke from his mouth , and smelling the unknown odour of ...
Pagina 41
... remarkable , for Longleat is rather like Macaulay . It is massive , superb , ornate . There is not a touch of beauty or sublimity or picturesqueness in its architecture — nothing which indicates genius - no poetry , but an ample amount ...
... remarkable , for Longleat is rather like Macaulay . It is massive , superb , ornate . There is not a touch of beauty or sublimity or picturesqueness in its architecture — nothing which indicates genius - no poetry , but an ample amount ...
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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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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.