The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern, with Biographical and Explanatory Notes, Volume 2Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl Clarke Company, limited, 1899 - Anthologies |
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... friends , Green and Lecky , who are probably the most popular writers of history that England has seen since the days of Gibbon . Green was carried off by disease , long before his work , under normal circumstances , would have ceased ...
... friends , Green and Lecky , who are probably the most popular writers of history that England has seen since the days of Gibbon . Green was carried off by disease , long before his work , under normal circumstances , would have ceased ...
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... Friends " in 1891. ] BOOK I. DEEP in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn , Far from the fiery noon , and eve's one star , Sat gray - haired Saturn , quiet as a stone , Still as the silence round about ...
... Friends " in 1891. ] BOOK I. DEEP in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn , Far from the fiery noon , and eve's one star , Sat gray - haired Saturn , quiet as a stone , Still as the silence round about ...
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... friends , O Saturn ! come away , and give them heart ; I know the covert , for thence came I hither . " Thus brief ; then with beseeching eyes she went With backward footing through the shade a space : He followed , and she turned to ...
... friends , O Saturn ! come away , and give them heart ; I know the covert , for thence came I hither . " Thus brief ; then with beseeching eyes she went With backward footing through the shade a space : He followed , and she turned to ...
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... friends went boldly to meet them , slew a great many , and made the rest take to their heels , so that , if the giants had had six legs apiece instead of six arms , it would have served them better to run away with . Another strange ...
... friends went boldly to meet them , slew a great many , and made the rest take to their heels , so that , if the giants had had six legs apiece instead of six arms , it would have served them better to run away with . Another strange ...
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... friends , " quietly replied Jason , " I do not wonder that you think the dragon very terrible . You have grown up from infancy in the fear of this monster , and therefore still regard him with the awe that children feel for the bug ...
... friends , " quietly replied Jason , " I do not wonder that you think the dragon very terrible . You have grown up from infancy in the fear of this monster , and therefore still regard him with the awe that children feel for the bug ...
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Page 197 - Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead. force should be right ; or, rather, right and wrong, (Between whose endless jar justice resides,) Should lose their names, and so should justice too.
Page 232 - Isle forgets the main, And only the low lutes of love complain, And only shadows of wan lovers pine; As such an one were glad to know the brine Salt on his lips, and the large air again. So gladly, from the songs of modern speech Men turn, and see the stars, and feel the free Shrill wind beyond the close of heavy flowers And through the music of the languid hours, They hear like ocean on a Western beach The surge and thunder of the Odyssey.
Page 353 - Little remains: but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
Page 175 - That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne : Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise: Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Page 352 - Vext the dim sea : I am become a name ; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I seen and known ; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments...
Page 21 - Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair ; Forest on forest hung about his head Like cloud on cloud. No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest.
Page 183 - THERE lies a vale in Ida, lovelier Than all the valleys of Ionian hills. The swimming vapor slopes athwart the glen, Puts forth an arm; and creeps from pine to pine, And loiters, slowly drawn. On either hand The lawns and meadow-ledges midway down Hang rich in flowers, and far below them roars The long brook falling thro' the clov'n ravine In cataract after cataract to the sea.
Page 197 - Sans check to good and bad: but when the planets In evil mixture to disorder wander, What plagues and what portents, what mutiny, What raging of the sea, shaking of earth, Commotion in the winds, frights, changes, horrors, Divert and crack, rend and deracinate The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture!
Page 352 - 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.
Page 161 - Tunstall lies dead upon the field, His life-blood stains the spotless shield: Edmund is down; my life is reft; The Admiral alone is left, Let Stanley charge with spur of fire—- With Chester charge, and Lancashire, Full upon Scotland's central host, Or victory and England's lost. Must I bid twice? hence, varlets! fly! Leave Marmion here alone — to die.