Travellers JoyWilliam George Waters E.P. Dutton, 1906 - 319 páginas |
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... may also find pleasure therein . Those who , in their fuller experience , may meet old friends will surely give them that greeting which old friends deserve . THE compiler desires to tender his acknowledgments and thanks to.
... may also find pleasure therein . Those who , in their fuller experience , may meet old friends will surely give them that greeting which old friends deserve . THE compiler desires to tender his acknowledgments and thanks to.
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... gives men liberal views ; it accustoms the mind to take an interest in things foreign to itself ; to love virtue for its own sake ; to prefer fame to life , and glory to riches ; and to fix our thoughts on the remote and permanent ...
... gives men liberal views ; it accustoms the mind to take an interest in things foreign to itself ; to love virtue for its own sake ; to prefer fame to life , and glory to riches ; and to fix our thoughts on the remote and permanent ...
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... gives immortality to human thoughts and actions , and catch the flame of enthusiasm from all nations and ages . It is hard to find in minds otherwise formed either a real love of excellence , or a belief that any excellence exists ...
... gives immortality to human thoughts and actions , and catch the flame of enthusiasm from all nations and ages . It is hard to find in minds otherwise formed either a real love of excellence , or a belief that any excellence exists ...
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... give the preference in all cases to the latter . But , in the first place , the knowledge of things , or of the realities of life , is not easily to be taught except by things themselves , and , even if it were , is not so absolutely ...
... give the preference in all cases to the latter . But , in the first place , the knowledge of things , or of the realities of life , is not easily to be taught except by things themselves , and , even if it were , is not so absolutely ...
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... gives to naked objects . There can be no true elegance without taste in style . In the next place , we mean absolutely to deny the application of the principle of utility to the present question . By an obvious transposition of ideas ...
... gives to naked objects . There can be no true elegance without taste in style . In the next place , we mean absolutely to deny the application of the principle of utility to the present question . By an obvious transposition of ideas ...
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A. C. Swinburne A. H. Clough beauty better bird breath bright brother brow dark dead dear death delight doth dreams earth eyes F. W. Bourdillon fair falcon fear Federigo flowers forest George Darley Giovanni Francesco Straparola give grave green hair hand happy hast hath head hear heart heaven honour hour Iseult J. C. Mangan John Donne keep king kiss knew lady laugh Laurence Binyon leave light lips live look Lord Tennyson love's lovers merry mind morning never Nicholas Breton night o'er passion pleasure Poems rest rose round shade shepherd shew sigh sing sleep smile Song Sonnets soul stars summer sweet tears tell tender thee thine things Thomas Campion thought tree Tristan unto W. E. Henley weep wind wood words young youth
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Página 161 - Withdraws into its happiness ; The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find ; Yet it creates, transcending these, Far other worlds, and other seas ; Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green shade. Here at the fountain's sliding foot, Or at some fruit-tree's mossy root, Casting the body's vest aside...
Página 53 - Bright Star! would I were steadfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores...
Página 292 - The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn : Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.
Página 111 - She listened with a flitting blush, With downcast eyes and modest grace; For well she knew, I could not choose But gaze upon her face. I told her of the Knight that wore Upon his shield a burning brand; And that for ten long years he wooed The Lady of the Land.
Página 81 - Coral is far more red than her lips' red: If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound...
Página 178 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy of his nature.
Página 20 - Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows, And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows, That we one jot of former love retain...
Página 2 - Love in my bosom like a bee Doth suck his sweet; Now with his wings he plays with me, Now with his feet. Within mine eyes he makes his nest, His bed amidst my tender breast, My kisses are his daily feast, And yet he robs me of my rest — Ah, wanton, will ye?
Página 112 - And that he cross'd the mountain-woods, Nor rested day nor night; That sometimes from the savage den, And sometimes from the darksome shade, And sometimes starting up at once In green and sunny glade, There came and looked him in the face An angel beautiful and bright; And that he knew it was a Fiend, This miserable Knight!
Página 84 - The sounds and seas, with all their finny drove, Now to the moon in wavering morrice move ; And on the tawny sands and shelves Trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves.