Literary curiosities and eccentricities, in prose and verse, ed. by W.A. Clouston |
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... mortal remains , but served also as her wardrobe , and the depository of her bread and cheese . " This narrative of the aged spinster's " peculiar sensibility " is tanta- lizingly incomplete ; one is curious to know whether , after all ...
... mortal remains , but served also as her wardrobe , and the depository of her bread and cheese . " This narrative of the aged spinster's " peculiar sensibility " is tanta- lizingly incomplete ; one is curious to know whether , after all ...
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... mortal eye , Like roses that in deserts bloom and die . " Young says of Nature , " Love of Fame , " Satire 5 : — “ In distant wilds , by human eye unseen , She rears her flowers and spreads her velvet green ; Pure gurgling rills the ...
... mortal eye , Like roses that in deserts bloom and die . " Young says of Nature , " Love of Fame , " Satire 5 : — “ In distant wilds , by human eye unseen , She rears her flowers and spreads her velvet green ; Pure gurgling rills the ...
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... mortal sign , even from the first man , until it was taken off by the special supplication of Jacob . From whence , as a thankful acknowledgment , this salutation first began , and was after continued by the expression of Tobim Chaüm ...
... mortal sign , even from the first man , until it was taken off by the special supplication of Jacob . From whence , as a thankful acknowledgment , this salutation first began , and was after continued by the expression of Tobim Chaüm ...
Page 73
... mortal ever knew before herself . She then begins with a description of the chaos ; and proceeds to the formation of the world , and the creation of the different species of its inhabitants , giants , men , and dwarfs . She then ...
... mortal ever knew before herself . She then begins with a description of the chaos ; and proceeds to the formation of the world , and the creation of the different species of its inhabitants , giants , men , and dwarfs . She then ...
Page 104
... mortal . He knows it indeed , and if need were he could preach a homily on the fragility of life ; but he brings it not home to himself any more than in a hot June we can appropriate to our imagination the freezing days of December ...
... mortal . He knows it indeed , and if need were he could preach a homily on the fragility of life ; but he brings it not home to himself any more than in a hot June we can appropriate to our imagination the freezing days of December ...
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Popular passages
Page 195 - Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 196 - I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet...
Page 128 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Page 195 - O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth ; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim...
Page 45 - THE poetry of earth is never dead : When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead ; That is the Grasshopper's — he takes the lead In summer luxury, — he has never done With his delights ; for when tired out with fun He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.
Page 158 - Go, lovely Rose, Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows When I resemble her to thee How sweet and fair she seems to be.
Page 66 - Ladybird, Ladybird, fly away home, Your house is on fire, your children will burn.
Page 195 - Away ! away ! for I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, But on the viewless wings of Poesy...
Page 196 - Forlorn ! the very word is like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self ! Adieu ! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is famed to do, deceiving elf. Adieu ! adieu ! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley-glades : Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music: — do I wake or sleep?
Page 154 - When Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates. And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates; When I lie tangled in her hair And fetter'd to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.