The Strand Magazine, Volume 29George Newnes G. Newnes, 1905 |
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Page 654 - Tis the merry Nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious notes; As he were fearful that an April night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul Of all its music...
Page 191 - Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
Page 80 - His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Page 404 - MY only love is always near, — In country or in town I see her twinkling feet, I hear The whisper of her gown. She foots it ever fair and young, Her locks are tied in haste, And one is o'er her shoulder flung, And hangs below her waist. She ran before me in the meads ; And down this world-worn track She leads me on ; but while she leads She never gazes back. And yet her voice is in my dreams, To witch me more and more ; That wooing voice ! Ah me, it seems Less near me than of yore. Lightly I sped...
Page 98 - HOW doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people ! How is she become as a widow ! she that was great among the nations, And princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
Page 42 - For over all there hung a cloud of fear; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted!
Page 404 - ... some were not, but all by law were equal. Some complained about the dirt and noise the others made, their want of scholarship...
Page 80 - ... tis thou who enlargest the soul,— and openest all its powers to receive instruction and to relish virtue. — He that has thee has little more to wish for ; — and he that is so wretched as to want thee — wants everything with thee.
Page 270 - KINGDOM OF CORSICA FOR THE USE OF HIS CREDITORS. The grave, great teacher, to a level brings Heroes and beggars, galley-slaves and kings. But Theodore this moral learned ere dead : Fate poured its lessons on his living head, Bestowed a kingdom, and denied him bread.
Page 99 - Love passing through the street and gazing ominously on one another, conscious of the event ; while the bird, a messenger of death, drops the poppy between the hands of Beatrice. She, through her shut lids, is conscious of a new world, as expressed in the last words of the Vita Nuova, — That blessed Beatrice who now gazeth continually on His countenance qui est per omnia scecula benedictus.