Essays and Tales: Sketch of the author's life (p. i-ccxxxii) Shades of the dead. Critical essays. Lecture, on the worth of knowledgeJ. W. Parker, 1848 |
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... English ; and after some terrible suspense they started for the coast in a large carriage with a single pair of horses for the journey . It seemed perilous ; but they reached Dieppe in safety , where his father joined them , after ...
... English ; and after some terrible suspense they started for the coast in a large carriage with a single pair of horses for the journey . It seemed perilous ; but they reached Dieppe in safety , where his father joined them , after ...
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... English thought . The Aids to Reflection had recently been published , and were doing the work for which they are so admirably fitted ; that book , to which many , as has been said by one of Sterling's chief friends , " owe even their ...
... English thought . The Aids to Reflection had recently been published , and were doing the work for which they are so admirably fitted ; that book , to which many , as has been said by one of Sterling's chief friends , " owe even their ...
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... English journal , which has borne such consistent witness to high philoso- phical and moral principles , as this did under their management . From Sterling's contributions I have selected several for insertion in these volumes , the ...
... English journal , which has borne such consistent witness to high philoso- phical and moral principles , as this did under their management . From Sterling's contributions I have selected several for insertion in these volumes , the ...
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... the enterprise . The calamitous issue of this undertaking , the death of Torrijos and of an English friend who accompanied him , weighed so heavily on Ster- ling's mind , mixed up with a feeling of most LIFE OF THE AUTHOR . xxxix.
... the enterprise . The calamitous issue of this undertaking , the death of Torrijos and of an English friend who accompanied him , weighed so heavily on Ster- ling's mind , mixed up with a feeling of most LIFE OF THE AUTHOR . xxxix.
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... English politics happily I do not hear much . On the whole I think the chief European Governments rather less wicked and foolish than usual . Colonization and education might , I sus- pect , even now save England from revolution . But ...
... English politics happily I do not hear much . On the whole I think the chief European Governments rather less wicked and foolish than usual . Colonization and education might , I sus- pect , even now save England from revolution . But ...
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Page 327 - Your name from hence immortal life shall have, Though I, once gone, to all the world must die. The earth can yield me but a common grave, When you entombed in men's eyes shall lie. Your monument shall be my gentle verse, Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read, And tongues to be your being shall rehearse When all the breathers of this world are dead. You still shall live — such virtue hath my pen — Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men.
Page 285 - O but they say the tongues of dying men Enforce attention like deep harmony: Where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain. For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.
Page 327 - And summer's lease hath all too short a date : Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion...
Page 103 - And see ! the lady Christabel Gathers herself from out her trance; Her limbs relax, her countenance Grows sad and soft; the smooth thin lids Close o'er her eyes; and tears she sheds — Large tears that leave the lashes bright...
Page 101 - The brands were flat, the brands were dying, Amid their own white ashes lying; But when the lady passed, there came A tongue of light, a fit of flame; And Christabel saw the lady's eye, And nothing else saw she thereby, Save the boss of the shield of Sir Leoline tall, Which hung in a murky old niche in the wall. O softly tread, said Christabel, My father seldom sleepeth well.
Page cliii - There is a spirit which I feel, that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things, in hope to enjoy its own in the end. Its hope is to outlive all wrath and contention, and to weary out all exaltation and cruelty, or whatever is of a nature contrary to itself.
Page 101 - Lifted her up, a weary weight, Over the threshold of the gate : Then the lady rose again, And moved, as she were not in pain. So free from danger, free from fear, They crossed the court : right glad they were. And Christabel devoutly cried, To the lady by her side, Praise we the Virgin all divine Who hath rescued thee from thy distress ! Alas, alas! said Geraldine, I cannot speak for weariness.
Page 102 - Alas! what ails poor Geraldine? Why stares she with unsettled eye? Can she the bodiless dead espy? And why with hollow voice cries she, 'Off, woman, off! this hour is mine — Though thou her guardian spirit be, Off, woman, off! 'tis given to me.
Page 97 - Tis the middle of night by the castle clock, And the owls have awakened the crowing cock ; Tu— whit ! Tu— whoo ! And hark, again ! the crowing cock, How drowsily it crew.
Page 99 - She had dreams all yesternight Of her own betrothed knight; And she in the midnight wood will pray For the weal of her lover that's far away.