Englische Studien, Volume 28O.R. Reisland, 1900 "Zeitschrift für englische Philologie" (varies slightly). |
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... Vailima Letters " the ever - to - be - execrated Ebbtide . " Vailima Letters ( 1895 ) . - These said Vailima letters , forming the next issued volume , consist of letters written from his island home in Samoa to his great friend Sidney ...
... Vailima Letters " the ever - to - be - execrated Ebbtide . " Vailima Letters ( 1895 ) . - These said Vailima letters , forming the next issued volume , consist of letters written from his island home in Samoa to his great friend Sidney ...
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... Vailima Letters be often sad , they are never dull , and their pathos is plentifully relieved by evident bravery of spirit and by easy humour . They form indeed one of the most faith- ful " human documents " as it is the fashion to ...
... Vailima Letters be often sad , they are never dull , and their pathos is plentifully relieved by evident bravery of spirit and by easy humour . They form indeed one of the most faith- ful " human documents " as it is the fashion to ...
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... Vailima Letters , " The frag- ment which he wrote during the last month of his life gives to my mind ( as it did to his own ) for the first time the full measure of his powers ; and if in the literature of Robert Louis Stevenson 287.
... Vailima Letters , " The frag- ment which he wrote during the last month of his life gives to my mind ( as it did to his own ) for the first time the full measure of his powers ; and if in the literature of Robert Louis Stevenson 287.
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... Vailima Letters one is apt to anticipate some- thing of the nature of a failure . I , for my part , was delight- fully disappointed in this apprehension . The story carries one at a gallop like John Gilpin's horse ; at any rate to the ...
... Vailima Letters one is apt to anticipate some- thing of the nature of a failure . I , for my part , was delight- fully disappointed in this apprehension . The story carries one at a gallop like John Gilpin's horse ; at any rate to the ...
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Page 326 - It was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o'er the green corn-field did pass In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding : Sweet lovers love the spring.
Page 327 - Heigh, ho ! sing, heigh, ho ! unto the green holly : Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly Then, heigh, ho, the holly ! This life is most jolly. Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, That dost not bite so nigh As benefits forgot...
Page 390 - Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went to rest, Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West. Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid.
Page 304 - The Prince of Cumberland! that is a step On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
Page 38 - It lies in Heaven, across the flood Of ether, as a bridge. Beneath, the tides of day and night With flame and darkness ridge The void, as low as where this earth Spins like a fretful midge.
Page 81 - For woman is not undevelopt man, But diverse: could we make her as the man, Sweet Love were slain: his dearest bond is this, Not like to like, but like in difference. Yet in the long years liker must they grow; The man be more of woman, she of man; He gain in sweetness and in moral height. Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world; She mental breadth, nor...
Page 239 - THE COW THE friendly cow all red and white, I love with all my heart: She gives me cream with all her might To eat with apple-tart. She wanders lowing here and there, And yet she cannot stray, All in the pleasant open air, The pleasant light of day; And blown by all the winds that pass And wet with all the showers, She walks among the meadow grass And eats the meadow flowers.
Page 383 - And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
Page 303 - Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further.
Page 334 - Nor the dejected haviour of the visage, Together with all forms, modes, shows of grief, That can denote me truly: These, indeed, seem, For they are actions that a man might play : But I have that within, which passeth show; These, but the trappings and the suits of woe.