Some Occasional Papers Read at the Richmond Athenaeum ...Surrey, E. King, 1886 - 235 páginas |
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Página 126 - Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd ; The next, in majesty : in both, the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she join'd the former two.
Página 139 - liker must they grow : The man be more of woman, she of man ; Me gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world ; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care, Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind ; Till at
Página 208 - them art no thy lane, In proving foresight may be vain : The best laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, An' lea'e us naught but grief and pain, For promis'd joy. Still thou art blest, compar'd wi
Página 205 - brattle O' winter war, And thro' the drift, deep-lairing sprattle, Beneath a scar. Ilk happing bird, wee, helpless thing, That, in the merry months o' spring, Delighted me to hear thee sing, What comes o' thee ? Whare wilt thou cower thy chittering wing, An
Página 193 - the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts, and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number of those who
Página 9 - of John C. Nimmo. An Elegant and Choicely Illustrated Edition of Trave Is INTO SEVERAL REMOTE NATIONS OF THE WORLD BY LEMUEL GULLIVER, First a Surgeon and then a Captain of Several Ships. By JONATHAN SWIFT, Dean of St. Patrick. With Prefatory Memoir by GEORGE SAINTSBURY, and One Hundred and Eighty Coloured and Sixty Plain Illustrations. Royal Svo, cloth extra, price
Página 197 - wandering stabs of remorse which never fail to settle on my vitals like vultures, when attention is not called away by the calls of society or the vagaries of the muse. Even in the hour of social mirth my gaiety is the madness of an intoxicated criminal under the hands of the executioner.
Página 71 - limbs wore made in England, show us here The mettle of your pasture ; let us swear That you are worth your breeding, which I doubt not : For then- is none of you
Página 206 - by me. You will guess my indignation at the inhuman fellow who could shoot a hare at this season, when all of them have young ones. Indeed, there is something in the business of destroying for our sport individuals in the animal creation
Página 255 - Father of all, in every age, In every clime, adored By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah,