MacMillan's Magazine, Volume 56Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris 1887 |
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... early in the day , must always take place under a jealous exclusion of the sun , one seemed to live in perpetual candle- light . At It was in a delightful rummaging of one of those lumber - rooms , escaped from that candle - light into ...
... early in the day , must always take place under a jealous exclusion of the sun , one seemed to live in perpetual candle- light . At It was in a delightful rummaging of one of those lumber - rooms , escaped from that candle - light into ...
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... early in certain long discussions on matters of art : magnifi- cent schemes from this or that eminent contractor for spending his money tastefully , distinguishings of the rococo and the baroque . On the other hand , having been all his ...
... early in certain long discussions on matters of art : magnifi- cent schemes from this or that eminent contractor for spending his money tastefully , distinguishings of the rococo and the baroque . On the other hand , having been all his ...
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... early spring days the mantle was suddenly lifted the Alps were an apex of natural glory , towards which , in broadening spaces of light , the whole of Europe sloped upwards . Through them , on the right hand as he jour- neyed on , were ...
... early spring days the mantle was suddenly lifted the Alps were an apex of natural glory , towards which , in broadening spaces of light , the whole of Europe sloped upwards . Through them , on the right hand as he jour- neyed on , were ...
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... early morning onwards ; and being lightly clad found myself , when my mother drove up later to look on , fairly frozen . My mother sat in the carriage , quite stately in her furred cloak of red velvet , fastened on the breast with thick ...
... early morning onwards ; and being lightly clad found myself , when my mother drove up later to look on , fairly frozen . My mother sat in the carriage , quite stately in her furred cloak of red velvet , fastened on the breast with thick ...
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... early hour of the morn- ing , was beginning to make itself felt ; and I am thankful to say that , after carefully wrapping up my wife and taking what was necessary for myself , I still had a couple of blankets to spare , in which I ...
... early hour of the morn- ing , was beginning to make itself felt ; and I am thankful to say that , after carefully wrapping up my wife and taking what was necessary for myself , I still had a couple of blankets to spare , in which I ...
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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.