The Etchingham LettersDodd, Mead & Company, 1898 - 343 strani |
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Stran 161 - Thou that singest wheat and woodland, tilth and vineyard, hive and horse and herd; All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word...
Stran 334 - Man was made when Nature was But an apprentice, but woman when she Was a skilful mistress of her art.
Stran 257 - They that are whole need not a physician, but they that are sick " ; and therefore Christ said, that " he came not to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.
Stran 161 - Now the Rome of slaves hath perish'd, and the Rome of freemen holds her place, I, from out the Northern Island sunder'd once from all the human race, I salute thee, Mantovano, I that loved thee since my day began, Wielder of the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man.
Stran 158 - So farewell to my thrice dearly beloved wife and children ! — Yours, as God pleaseth, in that which no waters can quench, no time forget, nor distance wear away, but remains for ever,
Stran 219 - It may not have occurred to every reader, but none will perhaps object to it, when once suggested to his consideration, that — as is the god of any nation, such will be that nation, God, however falsely conceived of by man, even though splintered into fragments by Polytheism, or disfigured by the darkest mythologies, is still the greatest of all objects offered to human contemplation. Man, when thrown upon his own delusions, may have raised...
Stran 327 - The rank of the owner was indicated by the species of bird which he carried. To a king belonged the gerfalcon ; to a prince, the falcon gentle ; to an earl, the peregrine ; to a lady, the merlin ; to a young squire, the hobby ; while a yeoman carried a goshawk ; a priest, a sparrowhawk ; and a knave, or servant, a kestrel.
Stran 85 - CALANTHA'S DIRGE. [ From the Broken Heart. ] Glories, pleasures, pomps, delights and ease. Can but please Outward senses, when the mind Is untroubled, or by peace refined. Crowns may flourish and decay, Beauties shine, but fade away. Youth may revel, yet it must Lie down in a bed of dust. Earthly honours flow and waste, Time alone doth change and last. Sorrows mingled with contents prepare Rest for care ; Love only reigns in death ; though art Can find no comfort for a Broken Heart.
Stran 107 - Gardens, Pictures, Statues, and Antiquities. As also of the Interest, Government, Riches, Force, &c., of all the Princes. With Instructions concerning Travel. By Richard Lassels, Gent., who Travelled through Italy Five times, as Tutor to several of the English Nobility and Gentry.
Stran 244 - Make not her free will slave to vanity. And when thou think'st of her eternity, Think not that death against her nature is; Think it a birth : and when thou go'st to die, Sing like a swan, as if thou went'st to bliss.