Pen Sketches by a Vanished Hand: From the Papers of the Late Mortimer CollinsR. Bentley and son, 1879 |
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Pagina ix
... tell us of the familiarity of the birds in the garden with her husband ; how an old blackbird , who builds there year after year , will allow him to stroke her while on the nest ; how a chaffinch has brought up a family in a shrub close ...
... tell us of the familiarity of the birds in the garden with her husband ; how an old blackbird , who builds there year after year , will allow him to stroke her while on the nest ; how a chaffinch has brought up a family in a shrub close ...
Pagina xii
... tell us of great feats in walking , and seemed proud of showing what he could do . We were somewhat chary of accepting what he called " just a tramp before dinner . " He would swing along at an easy pace , seeming to make no exertion ...
... tell us of great feats in walking , and seemed proud of showing what he could do . We were somewhat chary of accepting what he called " just a tramp before dinner . " He would swing along at an easy pace , seeming to make no exertion ...
Pagina xvii
... admirer was never tired of telling the tale and imitating the manner in which the order was given . It curiously contrasts with his after life when , struggling against debt and piteously asking his publisher to send him.
... admirer was never tired of telling the tale and imitating the manner in which the order was given . It curiously contrasts with his after life when , struggling against debt and piteously asking his publisher to send him.
Pagina xxi
... tell ; some of his poetry probably will . His admirers are steadily increasing . He wrote so much , that it will take time to disentangle the good from the bad . Most of his novels are wild and improbable , but they are never dull ; and ...
... tell ; some of his poetry probably will . His admirers are steadily increasing . He wrote so much , that it will take time to disentangle the good from the bad . Most of his novels are wild and improbable , but they are never dull ; and ...
Pagina 13
... tell How long you kept sheep on this hill ? " Mr. Hughes remarks that " there is no merit in these lines beyond quaintness . " Here we are at issue with him . There is that recognition of the dignity of labour which characterises all ...
... tell How long you kept sheep on this hill ? " Mr. Hughes remarks that " there is no merit in these lines beyond quaintness . " Here we are at issue with him . There is that recognition of the dignity of labour which characterises all ...
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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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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.