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A. W. Fox Anthony Trollope artist Bajazet ballad beauty Cauterets century chair character colour Council Credland critic death delightful Drako English entitled essay expression father fiction Fitz Gerald friends genius head heart human humour interest Jacobite JOHN MORTIMER John Page JOSEPH ANGELOFF King Kirkley Hall Little John Little Moreton Hall lived Lord de Tabley lyrical Manchester Literary Club Masaccio MILNER mind MONDAY nature never night NOEL JOHNSON Northcote novel O'Shaughnessy Ognianoff Omar Omar Khayyám opera Orley Farm painted painter perhaps poem poet poetical poetry Praed Praed's President read a paper read the principal reader Robin Hood romance rose SANDBACH scene session Shylock song Sonnet soul spirit STANSFIELD stanzas story sweet tell thee things thou thought TINSLEY PRATT tion Trollope Trollope's truth Vazoff verse volume wonder word writer
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 6 - Lord, Thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever Thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting Thou art God. Thou turnest man to destruction : and sayest, Return, ye children of men. ... Return, O Lord, how long ? and let it repent Thee concerning Thy servants.
Seite 150 - As good almost kill a man as kill a good book ; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good Book kills Reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a
Seite 99 - that he Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect in a hair as heart . . . To him no high, no low, no great, no small ; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all. The
Seite 26 - tulip-bed there has been spilled the crimson blood of a King ; every violet shoot that grows from the earth is a mole that was once upon the cheek of a beauty. I sometimes think that never blows so red The rose as where some buried Cœsar bled ; That every hyacinth the garden wears Dropt in her lap from some once lovely head.
Seite 364 - He did not think all mischief fair, Although he had a knack of joking ; He did not make himself a bear, Although he had a taste for smoking ; And when religious sects ran mad, He held, in spite of all his learning ; That if a man's belief is bad, It will not be improved by burning.
Seite 94 - where he did lie. An inner impulse rent the veil Of his old husk : from head to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. He dried his wings ; like gauze they grew ; Thro' crofts and pastures wet with dew A living flash of light he flew.
Seite 6 - His glory covered the Heavens, and the Earth was full of his praise. And his brightness was as the light ; he had horns coming out of his hand ; and there was the hiding of his power.
Seite 6 - God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran* His glory covered the Heavens, and the Earth was full of his praise. And his brightness was as the light ; he had horns coming out of his hand ; and there was the hiding of his power.
Seite 94 - A Musical Instrument " :— What was he doing, the great god Pan, Down in the reeds by the river ? Spreading ruin and scattering han, Splashing and paddling with hoofs of a goat, And breaking the golden lilies afloat With the
Seite 150 - Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a