MacMillan's Magazine, Volume 56Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris 1887 |
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... strange regions , and she fancied she heard wonderful sounds answering the ringing chords of the piano . Just then Lady Brenda came in and looked briskly round the great room . 66 Really , Augustus has very good taste . Don't you think ...
... strange regions , and she fancied she heard wonderful sounds answering the ringing chords of the piano . Just then Lady Brenda came in and looked briskly round the great room . 66 Really , Augustus has very good taste . Don't you think ...
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... strange feeling in the air - very strange indeed . I never felt anything like it before . " " Open that window , " said Augustus to Bimbam , the butler . The servant obeyed , and a gust of hot air blew in , almost stifling in its ...
... strange feeling in the air - very strange indeed . I never felt anything like it before . " " Open that window , " said Augustus to Bimbam , the butler . The servant obeyed , and a gust of hot air blew in , almost stifling in its ...
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... strange mix- ture of daylight and darkness , half startled by a feeling of weird horror , half delighted by the delicious sense of confused reality and dreamy illu- sion which her brother had conjured up . Silently the With the Immortals .
... strange mix- ture of daylight and darkness , half startled by a feeling of weird horror , half delighted by the delicious sense of confused reality and dreamy illu- sion which her brother had conjured up . Silently the With the Immortals .
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... strange phenomenon . As they looked , faint clouds of rosy haze moved between them and the lamps , pausing suddenly and then shooting on like wild figures with streaming drapery of impalpable fine- ness , tinged with unearthly hues that ...
... strange phenomenon . As they looked , faint clouds of rosy haze moved between them and the lamps , pausing suddenly and then shooting on like wild figures with streaming drapery of impalpable fine- ness , tinged with unearthly hues that ...
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... strange one indeed , and there was a pause before any one answered it . " We mean no discourtesy to you , sir , " said Augustus at last . " Seeing a stranger so near our house in this desolate region , we naturally desire to offer you ...
... strange one indeed , and there was a pause before any one answered it . " We mean no discourtesy to you , sir , " said Augustus at last . " Seeing a stranger so near our house in this desolate region , we naturally desire to offer you ...
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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.