Lectures on the British Poets, Volumen2J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1860 |
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... Lord Bacon , " one of the fanciful prescriptions for the prolongation of life and the renewing of health was , in an early hour , after the sun is risen , to take an air from some high and open place with a ventilation of roses and ...
... Lord Bacon , " one of the fanciful prescriptions for the prolongation of life and the renewing of health was , in an early hour , after the sun is risen , to take an air from some high and open place with a ventilation of roses and ...
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... release . Some time after , a lawsuit came on in which it was known that the opinion of the presiding judge was unfavourable to Lord Traquair's interests . STORY OF CHRISTIE'S WILL . 71 The point to be 20 70 LECTURE ELEVENTH .
... release . Some time after , a lawsuit came on in which it was known that the opinion of the presiding judge was unfavourable to Lord Traquair's interests . STORY OF CHRISTIE'S WILL . 71 The point to be 20 70 LECTURE ELEVENTH .
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... Lord Durie , the obnoxious justiciary . This was accomplished by Will's suddenly seizing the judge from his horse while riding on the sands of Leith , muffling him in a large cloak , and then escaping into a secluded quarter , where he ...
... Lord Durie , the obnoxious justiciary . This was accomplished by Will's suddenly seizing the judge from his horse while riding on the sands of Leith , muffling him in a large cloak , and then escaping into a secluded quarter , where he ...
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... lord , ' quo ' Christie's Will , • Gramercy , my lord , for your grace to me ! When I turn my cheek and claw my neck I think of Traquair and the Jeddart tree . ' " And he has opened the fair tower - gate To Traquair and a ' his companie ...
... lord , ' quo ' Christie's Will , • Gramercy , my lord , for your grace to me ! When I turn my cheek and claw my neck I think of Traquair and the Jeddart tree . ' " And he has opened the fair tower - gate To Traquair and a ' his companie ...
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... Lord Durie's door , And there he knocked most manfullie ; And up and spake Lord Durie sae stour , ' What tidings , thou stalward groom , to me ? ' " The fairest lady in Teviotdale Has sent , maist reverent sir , for thee ; She pleas at ...
... Lord Durie's door , And there he knocked most manfullie ; And up and spake Lord Durie sae stour , ' What tidings , thou stalward groom , to me ? ' " The fairest lady in Teviotdale Has sent , maist reverent sir , for thee ; She pleas at ...
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Página 260 - It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration ; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea. Listen ! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder — everlastingly.
Página 122 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And life is thorny ; and youth is vain ; And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain.
Página 192 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims aronnd him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Página 114 - I looked upon the rotting sea, And drew my eyes away; I looked upon the rotting deck, And there the dead men lay. I...
Página 120 - There is not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.
Página 283 - Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee, Whether the summer clothe the general earth With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing Betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch Of mossy apple-tree, while the...
Página 195 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Página 215 - tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy ; for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith that all which we behold Is full of blessings.
Página 219 - Paradise, and groves Elysian, Fortunate Fields — like those of old Sought in the Atlantic Main — why should they be A history only of departed things, Or a mere fiction of what never was ? For the discerning intellect of Man, When wedded to this goodly universe In love and holy passion, shall find these A simple produce of the common day.
Página 115 - The moving Moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide; Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside...