Old Shrines and IvyMacmillan, 1892 - 296 Seiten |
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... lines of delicate silver birch , and large masses of fragrant hops - the thick vines of which hang so near that we can almost clutch their pendant blossoms as we pass . A veil of dim sunshine is cast over this verdurous scene , and as ...
... lines of delicate silver birch , and large masses of fragrant hops - the thick vines of which hang so near that we can almost clutch their pendant blossoms as we pass . A veil of dim sunshine is cast over this verdurous scene , and as ...
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... line on the distant horizon . Some of the houses have doors and shutters of yellow oak . The narrow causeways are paved with smooth gray stone or slate . Not many lattices or gables are visible , such as one sees so often in Canterbury ...
... line on the distant horizon . Some of the houses have doors and shutters of yellow oak . The narrow causeways are paved with smooth gray stone or slate . Not many lattices or gables are visible , such as one sees so often in Canterbury ...
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... line of low , rough rocks , to mark the sepulchres of the clans that died in this place , — brave victims of a merciless massacre , heroic realities of loyal love , vainly sacrificed for a dubious cause and a weak leader . That is all ...
... line of low , rough rocks , to mark the sepulchres of the clans that died in this place , — brave victims of a merciless massacre , heroic realities of loyal love , vainly sacrificed for a dubious cause and a weak leader . That is all ...
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... lines that had been arrayed against them ; and if the Macdonalds had reinforced that charge the final result might have been different ; but the Macdonalds had been denied the place of honour , and they refused to lift a hand . It is an ...
... lines that had been arrayed against them ; and if the Macdonalds had reinforced that charge the final result might have been different ; but the Macdonalds had been denied the place of honour , and they refused to lift a hand . It is an ...
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... lines I was con- firmed in the conviction that not in any lan- guage among men was there ever achieved a more eloquent , passionate , sublime , and therefore altogether poetic commemoration - - of a great national event . To think of it ...
... lines I was con- firmed in the conviction that not in any lan- guage among men was there ever achieved a more eloquent , passionate , sublime , and therefore altogether poetic commemoration - - of a great national event . To think of it ...
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Abington acted actors Ada Rehan Adelaide Neilson Augustin Daly beautiful beneath brilliant cathedral character Charles church clouds comedy cottages Covent Garden Culloden dark dramatic drift Drury Lane E. L. Davenport England English Erraid Farquhar Farren flowers folio gaze genius George gray green heart Henry hills human humour Iona Jaques John Kemble King labour Lady Teazle land Laura Keene lived London lonely Longfellow look Love's Labour's Lost lovers Mary memory Midsummer Night's Dream mind Mirabel Miss Moore Mull nature never night noble Oriana Orlando performance persons piece play poems poet poetic present quarto relics revival rock Rosalind ruin Samuel Phelps satire says scene School for Scandal seems Shake Shakespeare sheep Sheridan shining Shrew Sir Peter Teazle speare speare's spirit stage stone story Stratford street sunshine theatre Theseus thought tion Touchstone tower trees Wallack wild William wind written wrote young youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 223 - Give me my robe, put on my crown ; I have Immortal longings in me : Now no more The juice of Egypt's grape shall moist this lip: — Yare, yare, good Iras; quick. — Methinks, I hear Antony call; I see him rouse himself To praise my noble act; I hear him mock The luck of...
Seite 182 - I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, — past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this dream.
Seite 37 - And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the Lord came, saying, Israel shall be thy name : and with the stones he built an altar in the name of the Lord : and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.
Seite 220 - O, wither'd is the garland of the war, The soldier's pole is fall'n : young boys and girls Are level now with men ; the odds is gone, And there is nothing left remarkable Beneath the visiting moon.
Seite 199 - Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugred Sonnets among his private friends, &c. — As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latines, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...
Seite 182 - The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen ; man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.
Seite 255 - Dear Bob, — I have not anything to leave thee, to perpetuate my memory, but two helpless girls ; look upon them, sometimes ; and think of him that was, to the last moment of his life, thine, — GEORGE FARQUHAR.
Seite 192 - A | Pleasant | Conceited Comedie | called, | Loues labors, lost. | As it was presented before her Highnes | this last Christmas. | Newly corrected and augmented | By W. Shakespere.