Philip Van Artevelde: A Dramatic Romance. In Two Parts |
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Adri Adriana Aeswyn amongst arms Artev Artevelde's Bosch Bour bring Bruges Bulsen Burgh Burgundy Cecile Clara Constable Constable of France D'Arl D'Arlon death DUKE DUKE OF BOURBON DUKE OF BURGUNDY Earl of Flanders Elena Enter Exeunt Exit father Flemish FLEUREANT OF HEURLÉE France Friar friends Ghent Gilb Gilbert Matthew give grace hand hath hear heard heart honour John King knight Kortz lady Lestovet live Lois of Sanxere look Lord of Arlon Lord of Coucy Lord of Occo market-place Master mind Muck never Oudenarde pardon pass peace PHILIP VAN ARTEVELDE Raoul of Raneval Roosdyk SCENE Scheldt Sir F SIR FLEUREANT Sir Lois Sir Raoul sleep soul speak stand tell thee There's thine things thou hast thought to-morrow town Twas Van den Bosch Van Muck Van Ryk Vauclaire wherefore whilst White-Hoods word Ypres
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Page xvi - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Page 297 - ... pleased appetite. Joy was then a masculine and a severe thing; the recreation of the judgment, the jubilee of reason. It was the result of a real good, suitably applied. It commenced upon the solidities of truth and the substance of fruition. It did not run out in voice, or undecent eruptions, but filled the soul, as God does the universe", silently and without noise.
Page 270 - re flying all ! Mount, mount, old man ; at least let one be saved ! Roosdyk! Vauclaire! the gallant and the kind ! Who shall inscribe your merits on your tombs ? May mine tell nothing to the world but this : That never did that prince or leader live, Who had more loyal or more loving friends ! Let it be written that fidelity Could go no farther.
Page 86 - There lies a sleeping city, God of dreams ! What an unreal and fantastic world Is going on below ! Within the sweep of yon encircling wall How many a large creation of the night, Wide wilderness and mountain, rock and sea, Peopled with busy, transitory groups, Finds room to rise, and never feels the crowd.
Page 67 - What 1 shall we teach our chroniclers henceforth To write that in five bodies were contained The sole brave hearts of Ghent ! which five defunct, The heartless town, by brainless counsel led, DeliverM up her keys, stript off...
Page 21 - We figure to ourselves The thing we like, and then we build it up As chance will have it, on the rock or sand : For thought is tired of wandering o'er the world, And home-bound fancy runs her bark ashore.
Page 161 - Ordered the common weal ; where great men grew Up to their natural eminence, and none Saving the wise, just, eloquent, were great ; Where power was of God's gift to whom he gave Supremacy of merit — the sole means And broad highway to power, that ever then Was meritoriously administered, Whilst all its instruments, from first to last, The tools of state for service high or low, Were chosen for their aptness to those ends Which virtue meditates.
Page 297 - In the next place, for the lightsome passion of joy. It was not that which now often usurps this name ; that trivial, vanishing, superficial thing, that only gilds the apprehension, and plays upon the surface of the soul. It was not the mere crackling of thorns, a sudden blaze of the spirits, the exultation of a tickled fancy, or a pleased appetite.
Page 294 - ... iam et transvectum est tempus, quo posses videri concupisse : confugiendum est ad imperium. an excidit trucidatus Corbulo? splendidior origine quam nos sumus , fateor : sed et Nero nobilitate natalium Vitellium anteibat.
Page 67 - There's that betwixt you been which you yourselves, Should ye forget, would then not be yourselves ; For must it not be thought some base men's souls Have ta'en the seats of yours and...