Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 56Macmillan and Company, 1887 |
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... king of the cannibals , had it been offered to me anything for a respectable profession , as I said to myself . But the last theological adviser had chanced to dis- agree with the king about an hour after the Sunday meal ; and on taking ...
... king of the cannibals , had it been offered to me anything for a respectable profession , as I said to myself . But the last theological adviser had chanced to dis- agree with the king about an hour after the Sunday meal ; and on taking ...
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... king or patri- arch , in the deeply incised marks of character , the hoary hair , the massive proportions , telling of a length of years beyond what is lived now . Surely ! past ages , could one get at the historic soul of them , were ...
... king or patri- arch , in the deeply incised marks of character , the hoary hair , the massive proportions , telling of a length of years beyond what is lived now . Surely ! past ages , could one get at the historic soul of them , were ...
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... King Cophetua " would be hers . And his good - will sunned her wild- grown beauty into majesty , into a kind of queenly richness . There was natural majesty in the heavy waves of golden hair folded closely above the neck , built a ...
... King Cophetua " would be hers . And his good - will sunned her wild- grown beauty into majesty , into a kind of queenly richness . There was natural majesty in the heavy waves of golden hair folded closely above the neck , built a ...
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... King James . The latest performance of the kind seems to have taken place in the hall of Pembroke College in 1747 , when and where was acted a comedy called " A Trip to Cambridge , or the Grateful Fair , " by Mr. Chris- topher Smart ...
... King James . The latest performance of the kind seems to have taken place in the hall of Pembroke College in 1747 , when and where was acted a comedy called " A Trip to Cambridge , or the Grateful Fair , " by Mr. Chris- topher Smart ...
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... kings , and Gullio will fight with none but gallants . Fare- well , base peasant , and thank God thy fathers were no gentlemen ; else thou shouldest not live an hour longer . Base , base , base peasant , peasant ! So hares may pull dead ...
... kings , and Gullio will fight with none but gallants . Fare- well , base peasant , and thank God thy fathers were no gentlemen ; else thou shouldest not live an hour longer . Base , base , base peasant , peasant ! So hares may pull dead ...
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Page 75 - 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.
Page 314 - The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly ; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.
Page 340 - 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 340 - 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 337 - TEARS, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.
Page 71 - 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 408 - 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.
Page 340 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Page 72 - And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth, Of all sweet sounds the life and element! O pure of heart! thou need'st not ask of me What this strong music in the soul may be! What, and wherein it doth exist, This light, this glory, this fair luminous mist, This beautiful and beauty-making power.
Page 73 - Tis of the rushing of an host in rout, With groans, of trampled men, with smarting wounds — At once they groan with pain, and shudder with the cold ! But hush ! there is a pause of deepest silence...