MacMillan's Magazine, Volume 56Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris 1887 |
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... close together , pale and trembling . The ground shook beneath their feet as though it would give way and dissolve in the convul- sion of the elements . The far - spring- ing arches of streaming light blazed higher and higher , and ...
... close together , pale and trembling . The ground shook beneath their feet as though it would give way and dissolve in the convul- sion of the elements . The far - spring- ing arches of streaming light blazed higher and higher , and ...
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... close about the throat than men wore it then , and loosely bound with a black silk cravat . wore yellow nankeen trousers : the waistcoat was buttoned across and fitted tightly to his slender waist ; and the long grey coat , narrow ...
... close about the throat than men wore it then , and loosely bound with a black silk cravat . wore yellow nankeen trousers : the waistcoat was buttoned across and fitted tightly to his slender waist ; and the long grey coat , narrow ...
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... close inter- course with select humanity , self- conscious and arrayed for presentation , he was a helpful judge of portraits , and the various degrees of the attain- ment of truth therein : a phase of fine art which the grandson could ...
... close inter- course with select humanity , self- conscious and arrayed for presentation , he was a helpful judge of portraits , and the various degrees of the attain- ment of truth therein : a phase of fine art which the grandson could ...
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... close at hand . And Carl was certainly true to his proposed part , in that he gladdened others by an intel- lectual radiance which had ceased to mean warmth or animation for him- self . For him , the light was still to seek , in France ...
... close at hand . And Carl was certainly true to his proposed part , in that he gladdened others by an intel- lectual radiance which had ceased to mean warmth or animation for him- self . For him , the light was still to seek , in France ...
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... close ! But , unexpectedly , the capricious incidence of his own humour and the opportunity did not suggest , as he would have wagered it must , " Go , drink at once ! " Was it that France had come to be of no account at all , in ...
... close ! But , unexpectedly , the capricious incidence of his own humour and the opportunity did not suggest , as he would have wagered it must , " Go , drink at once ! " Was it that France had come to be of no account at all , in ...
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Page 432 - Alack, alack, is it not like that I So early waking, what with loathsome smells And shrieks like mandrakes...
Page 352 - O attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed; Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!
Page 87 - My whole life I have lived in pleasant thought, As if life's business were a summer mood; As if all needful things would come unsought To genial faith, still rich in genial good; But how can He expect that others should Build for him, sow for him, and at his call Love him, who for himself will take no heed at all?
Page 420 - And in far other scenes! For I was reared In the great city, pent 'mid cloisters dim, And saw nought lovely but the sky and stars. But thou, my babe! shalt wander like a breeze By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the crags Of ancient mountain, and beneath the clouds, Which image in their bulk both lakes and shores And mountain crags...
Page 185 - tis not to come ; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come ; the readiness is all ; since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes?
Page 352 - Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone: Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal — yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
Page 83 - Tis of a little child Upon a lonesome wild, Not far from home, but she hath lost her way: And now moans low in bitter grief and fear, And now screams loud, and hopes to make her mother hear.
Page 81 - O Lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live: Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud! And would we aught behold of higher worth, Than that inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd, Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth...
Page 82 - Joy is the sweet voice, Joy the luminous cloud We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, All melodies the echoes of that voice, All colours a suffusion from that light.
Page 85 - Though I should gaze for ever On that green light that lingers in the west: I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.