The Poetical Works of Henry Taylor, Tema 73,Volumen1Chapman and Hall, 1864 |
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... ADRIANA VAN MERESTYN . CLARA VAN ARTEVELDE , Sister of Philip Van Artevelde . The SCENE is laid sometimes at GHENT , sometimes at BRUGES , or in its neighbourhood . PHILIP VAN ARTEVELDE . PART THE FIRST . ACT I. DRAMATIS PERSONE. ...
... ADRIANA VAN MERESTYN . CLARA VAN ARTEVELDE , Sister of Philip Van Artevelde . The SCENE is laid sometimes at GHENT , sometimes at BRUGES , or in its neighbourhood . PHILIP VAN ARTEVELDE . PART THE FIRST . ACT I. DRAMATIS PERSONE. ...
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... Adriana . Yours ? why there's Sir Walter . Clara . Sir Walter ? very good ; but he's at Bruges . I want one here . Adriana . On days of truce he comes . Clara . I want one every day . Besides , the war Will never slacken now ; a truce ...
... Adriana . Yours ? why there's Sir Walter . Clara . Sir Walter ? very good ; but he's at Bruges . I want one here . Adriana . On days of truce he comes . Clara . I want one every day . Besides , the war Will never slacken now ; a truce ...
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... Adriana . In truth , say ! To mould denial to a pleasing shape In all things , and most specially in love , Is a hard task ; alas ! I have not wit From such a sharp and waspish word as ' no ' To pluck the sting . What think you I should ...
... Adriana . In truth , say ! To mould denial to a pleasing shape In all things , and most specially in love , Is a hard task ; alas ! I have not wit From such a sharp and waspish word as ' no ' To pluck the sting . What think you I should ...
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... Adriana . Thanks for your counsel ; cunning is the maid That can convert a lover to a friend , And you have imp'd me ... Adriana . His want fulfill'd , He will not be the worse ; ' tis well for them That have no faults but what they ...
... Adriana . Thanks for your counsel ; cunning is the maid That can convert a lover to a friend , And you have imp'd me ... Adriana . His want fulfill'd , He will not be the worse ; ' tis well for them That have no faults but what they ...
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... Adriana , did I not , Of the untimely birth ? It chanced o ' Wednesday , By reason of a fright he gave his chin , Making its innocent down to stand on end With brandishing of a most superfluous razor . Adriana . You told me no such tale ...
... Adriana , did I not , Of the untimely birth ? It chanced o ' Wednesday , By reason of a fright he gave his chin , Making its innocent down to stand on end With brandishing of a most superfluous razor . Adriana . You told me no such tale ...
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Adriana Aeswyn arms Artevelde bear better blood Bosch Bourbon bring brought Bruges Burgher Burgundy Cecile Clara comes Constable council D'Arlon death Earl ears Elena Enter Exit eyes fair fall Father John fear fire Flanders follow force France friends Ghent Gilbert give grace hand hast hath head hear heard heart highness hold hope hour hundred keep King knew lady leave less Lestovet light live look lord Master meet mind Mount Muck never night Occo once pardon pass past peace Philip PHILIP VAN ARTEVELDE poor SCENE Sir Fleureant sleep soul speak stand surely tell thee There's things thou thought town true truth turn Van den Bosch Van Ryk Vauclaire wait Woman Ypres
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Página xv - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Página 1 - ... consequently no culture of the earth; no navigation nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea; no commodious building; no instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force; no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
Página 92 - There lies a sleeping city. God of dreams, What an unreal and fantastic world Is going on below ! Within the sweep of yon encircling wall, How many a large creation of the night, Wide wilderness and mountain, rock and sea, Peopled with busy transitory groups, Finds room to rise, and never feels the crowd ! — If when the shows had left the dreamers...
Página 21 - Compute the chances, And deem there's ne'er a one in dangerous times Who wins the race of glory, but than him A thousand men more gloriously endowed Have fallen upon the course ; a thousand others Have had their fortunes foundered by a chance, Whilst lighter barks...
Página 100 - He look'd again upon the children's couch, And said, low down, they wanted nothing now. So, to turn off his eyes, I drew the small survivor of the three Before him, and he snatched it up, and soon Seemed quite forgetful and absorbed. With that I stole away.
Página 37 - Leaps from his slumber on the wave-washed deck ; And now the time comes fast, when here in Ghent, He who would live exempt from injuries Of armed men, must be himself in arms. This time is near for all, — nearer for me.
Página 73 - There's that betwixt you been which you yourselves, Should ye forget, would then not be yourselves ; For must it not be thought some base men's souls Have ta'en the seats of yours and...
Página 314 - Pain and grief Are transitory things no less than joy, And though they leave us not the men we were, Yet they do leave us. You behold me here A man bereaved, with something of a blight Upon the early blossoms of his life And its first verdure, having not the less A living root, and drawing from the earth Its vital juices, from the air its powers : And surely as man's health and strength are whole, His appetites regerminate, his heart Re-opens, and his objects and desires Shoot up renewed...
Página 29 - tis ignoble to have led my life In idle meditations — that the times Demand me, echoing my father's name ? Oh ! what a fiery heart was his ! such souls Whose sudden visitations daze the world, Vanish like lightning, but they leave behind A voice that in the distance far away Wakens the slumbering ages. Oh ! my father ! Thy life is eloquent, and more persuades Unto dominion than thy death deters ; For that reminds me of a debt of blood Descended with my patrimony to me, Whose paying off would clear...
Página 270 - And I perceived the river and the bridge, The mottled sky and horizontal moon, The distant camp, and all things as they were.