Recovered Yesterdays in LiteratureAbingdon Press, 1916 - 306 Seiten |
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Recovered Yesterdays in Literature William A. (William Alfred) Quayle Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2012 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Alfred Tennyson battle Beaumont and Fletcher beauty brother Charles Dickens Charles Lamb cloud Dagonet dead death devotional dream Edward Moxon Edwin Drood Elia's Essays of Elia eternal eyes face Faerie Queene Falstaff Faulconbridge fear feel fingers flower folio fool Francis Thompson Gawain gentle Hamlet hand haunting hear heart heaven Henry holy humor Iago immortal king knew Lamb's Lancelot light lips literature look lover Macbeth man's Mary Mary Lamb mood moral Mystery of Edwin nature nature literature never night Pelleas poem poet poetry prayer Press printed quaint queen quiet selfishness shadow Shakespeare sing smile song soul spirit stars story sweet sword talk Tennyson thee things thou thought tion touch Tristram vellum voice volume walk wave wild wind wise woman women wonder words writing
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Seite 120 - ULYSSES. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel : I will drink Life to the lees...
Seite 113 - To dream and dream, like yonder amber light, Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on the height; To hear each other's whisper'd speech; Eating the Lotos day by day, To watch the crisping ripples on the beach, And tender curving lines of creamy spray...
Seite 111 - he said, and pointed toward the land, 'This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon.' In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream.
Seite 112 - Branches they bore of that enchanted stem, Laden with flower and fruit, whereof they gave To each, but whoso did receive of them, And taste, to him the gushing of the wave Far far away did seem to mourn and rave On alien shores...
Seite 55 - Pressed closely palm to palm and to his mouth Uplifted, he, as through an instrument, Blew mimic hootings to the silent owls, That they might answer him. — And they would shout Across the watery vale, and shout again, Responsive to his call, — with quivering peals, And long halloos, and screams, and echoes loud Redoubled and redoubled; concourse wild Of jocund din!
Seite 141 - Fear no more the frown o' the great; Thou art past the tyrant's stroke; Care no more to clothe and eat; To thee the reed is as the oak : The sceptre, learning, physic, must All follow this, and come to dust.
Seite 112 - And some thro' wavering lights and shadows broke, Rolling a slumbrous sheet of foam below. They saw the gleaming river seaward flow From the inner land: far off, three mountain-tops...
Seite 138 - And thro' the mountain-walls A rolling organ-harmony Swells up, and shakes and falls. Then move the trees, the copses nod, Wings flutter, voices hover clear : ' O just and faithful knight of God ! Ride on ! the prize is near.
Seite 293 - I must confess that I dedicate no inconsiderable portion of my time to other people's thoughts. I dream away my life in others' speculations. I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading; I cannot sit and think. Books think for me.
Seite 301 - There was pleasure in eating strawberries, before they became quite common — in the first dish of peas, while they were yet dear — to have them for a nice supper, a treat. What treat can we have now? If we were to treat ourselves now — that is, to have dainties a little above our means, it would be selfish and wicked. It is...