Old Shrines and IvyMacmillan, 1892 - 296 Seiten |
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... TO DOVER 55 VI . BEAUTIES OF FRANCE . • 66 VII . ELY AND ITS CATHEDRAL 75 · VIII . FROM EDINBURGH TO INVERNESS , 86 IX . THE FIELD OF CULLODEN X. 98 STORM - BOUND IN IONA . 107 II . SHRINES OF LITERATURE . CHAP . PAGE XI 9.
... TO DOVER 55 VI . BEAUTIES OF FRANCE . • 66 VII . ELY AND ITS CATHEDRAL 75 · VIII . FROM EDINBURGH TO INVERNESS , 86 IX . THE FIELD OF CULLODEN X. 98 STORM - BOUND IN IONA . 107 II . SHRINES OF LITERATURE . CHAP . PAGE XI 9.
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... fields fill the fore- ground , in which cattle are grazing and sheep are couched beneath the trees . Here and there a stately manor - house gleams from its lordly grove . Little cottages , pic- turesque with roofs of thatch and with ...
... fields fill the fore- ground , in which cattle are grazing and sheep are couched beneath the trees . Here and there a stately manor - house gleams from its lordly grove . Little cottages , pic- turesque with roofs of thatch and with ...
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... fields , some feeding , some ruminant , some in motion , and some asleep ; the deep , lush grass and clover ; the nurseries of fruit- trees ; the flying glimpses of gray church- towers and of shining streams ; and over all the frequent ...
... fields , some feeding , some ruminant , some in motion , and some asleep ; the deep , lush grass and clover ; the nurseries of fruit- trees ; the flying glimpses of gray church- towers and of shining streams ; and over all the frequent ...
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... fields now , and the air is delicious with the zestful perfume of their blossoms . We traverse beds of wild fern and of many kinds of underwoods , and in fields that are divided by hedges of lovely hawthorn we see many sheaves of the ...
... fields now , and the air is delicious with the zestful perfume of their blossoms . We traverse beds of wild fern and of many kinds of underwoods , and in fields that are divided by hedges of lovely hawthorn we see many sheaves of the ...
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... fields extend almost to its verge and the country is level for miles a marsh - land intersected with channels and pools . Presently we come again into hop - fields and we recognise the rich and blooming land of Kent . At Newington there ...
... fields extend almost to its verge and the country is level for miles a marsh - land intersected with channels and pools . Presently we come again into hop - fields and we recognise the rich and blooming land of Kent . At Newington there ...
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acted actors Ada Rehan Adelaide Neilson ancient Augustin Daly beautiful beneath blue brilliant cathedral character Charles charm church clouds comedy cottages Covent Garden Culloden dark death dramatic drift Drury Lane E. L. Davenport England English Erraid Farren flowers folio gaze George gray green haunted 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 memory Midsummer Night's Dream mind Mirabel Miss Moore Mull nature never night noble observed Orlando performance persons piece play poems poet poetic present quarto relics revival rock Rosalind ruin Samuel Phelps satire scene School for Scandal seems Shake Shakespeare sheep Sheridan shining Shrew silver Southampton speare speare's spirit stage stone story Stratford street sunshine theatre thought tion Touchstone tower town trees venerable WHELER wild William wind written wrote York youth
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Seite 180 - 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 221 - 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 35 - 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 218 - 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 190 - 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.
Seite 219 - Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch Of the ranged empire fall ! Here is my space. Kingdoms are clay : our dungy earth alike Feeds beast as man: the nobleness of life Is to do thus ; when such a mutual pair [Embracing. And such a twain can do't, in which I bind, On pain of punishment, the world to weet We stand up peerless.
Seite 197 - 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 180 - 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 253 - 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 193 - For a young author's first work almost always bespeaks his recent pursuits, and his first observations of life are either drawn from the immediate employments of his youth, and from the characters and images most deeply impressed on his mind in the situations in which those employments had...