Studies in English, prose and poetry, ed. and annotated by H.C. BowenHerbert Courthope Bowen 1876 |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 34
Página 12
... truth ; There was manhood's brow serenely high , And the fiery heart of youth . What sought they thus afar ? Bright jewels of the mine ? The wealth of seas ? the spoils of war ? No ' twas a faith's pure shrine . Yes , call that holy ...
... truth ; There was manhood's brow serenely high , And the fiery heart of youth . What sought they thus afar ? Bright jewels of the mine ? The wealth of seas ? the spoils of war ? No ' twas a faith's pure shrine . Yes , call that holy ...
Página 15
... truth and right , Ring in the common love of good . Ring out old shapes of foul disease ; Ring out the narrow lust of gold ; Ring out the thousand wars of old , Ring in the thousand years of peace . Ring in the valiant man and free ...
... truth and right , Ring in the common love of good . Ring out old shapes of foul disease ; Ring out the narrow lust of gold ; Ring out the thousand wars of old , Ring in the thousand years of peace . Ring in the valiant man and free ...
Página 17
... truth was great and lasting ; while his genuine enthusiasm for al that is lofty and pure can never fail to win for him our grateful admiration . PIBROCH✶ of Donuil Dhu , + Pibroch of Donuil , Wake thy wild voice anew , Summon Clan ...
... truth was great and lasting ; while his genuine enthusiasm for al that is lofty and pure can never fail to win for him our grateful admiration . PIBROCH✶ of Donuil Dhu , + Pibroch of Donuil , Wake thy wild voice anew , Summon Clan ...
Página 26
... cry : All her maidens , watching , said , " She must weep or she will die . ” * A pledge or promise . The same word as truth . + To don to do on , i.e. put on . Then they praised him , soft and low , Call'd 26 STUDIES IN ENGLISH .
... cry : All her maidens , watching , said , " She must weep or she will die . ” * A pledge or promise . The same word as truth . + To don to do on , i.e. put on . Then they praised him , soft and low , Call'd 26 STUDIES IN ENGLISH .
Página 28
... truth and beauty as their peer , Showing its worthiness of noble thoughts By a clear sense of inward nobleness ; A love that in its object findeth not All grace and beauty , and enough to sate Its thirst of blessing , but , in all of ...
... truth and beauty as their peer , Showing its worthiness of noble thoughts By a clear sense of inward nobleness ; A love that in its object findeth not All grace and beauty , and enough to sate Its thirst of blessing , but , in all of ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Studies in English, Prose and Poetry, Ed. and Annotated by H.C. Bowen Herbert Courthope Bowen Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
Términos y frases comunes
ALFRED TENNYSON Areopagitica beauty beneath blessed blood blow born Bostra breath Brutus Cæsar CHARLES KINGSLEY cloud cold Cromwell dark dead dear death deed deep dost doth dream Duke earth EDMUND BURKE EDWARD GIBBON ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Excalibur eyes fair fear FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS flower fool gleam glory green grief hand hast hath hear heard heart heaven honour JOHN KEATS JOHN MILTON king King Arthur Lady land light living lofty look Lord Macb Macbeth Milton mind morn mountains nature never night noble o'er PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY poems poet pray Ring round Saturn SHAKSPERE shining shore sight sing Sir Bedivere sleep smile song sorrow soul sound spirit splendour stood stream sweet tears thee things thou thought truth voice weary weep wild WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wind wonderful words Wordsworth youth
Pasajes populares
Página 117 - More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend? For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
Página 121 - I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition? \ Yet Brutus says, he was ambitious; And, sure, he is an honourable man.
Página 85 - ... Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Página 121 - But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world; now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence. 0 masters, if I were disposed to stir Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage, 1 should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius wrong, Who, you all know, are honourable men : I will not do them wrong; I rather choose To wrong the dead, to wrong myself and you, Than I will wrong such honorable men.
Página 106 - Amen" the other: As they had seen me with these hangman's hands. Listening their fear, I could not say "Amen" When they did say "God bless us!
Página 5 - Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude ; Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude.
Página 21 - We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him.
Página 88 - Sweet was the sound, when oft at evening's close Up yonder hill the village murmur rose; There, as I passed with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came softened from below; The swain responsive as the milkmaid sung, The sober herd that lowed to meet their young; The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school; The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind; These all in sweet confusion sought...
Página 14 - RING out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light : The year is dying in the night ; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow : The year is going, let him go ; Ring out the false, ring in the true...
Página 132 - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a mother's mind And no unworthy aim, The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster-child, her inmate, Man, Forget the glories he hath known And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his newborn blisses, A six years