An Old Shropshire Oak, Volume 1K. Paul, Trench, & Company, 1886 - Great Britain |
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... seemed to say , ' Write ! thou wilt never have a better day . ' And so I did . Iliad , E. 693 . KEATS'S Epistle to Charles Cowden Clarke , Sept. 1816 . Pleraque eorum quæ retuli , quæque referam , parva forsitan et levia memoratu videri ...
... seemed to say , ' Write ! thou wilt never have a better day . ' And so I did . Iliad , E. 693 . KEATS'S Epistle to Charles Cowden Clarke , Sept. 1816 . Pleraque eorum quæ retuli , quæque referam , parva forsitan et levia memoratu videri ...
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... night , of course , one thought there was nothing odd or out of the way in being addressed by a venerable oak . It seemed no more unreal than the talk of animate and inanimate things in Æsop's Fables does to B 2 CHAPTER PAGE THE DREAM.
... night , of course , one thought there was nothing odd or out of the way in being addressed by a venerable oak . It seemed no more unreal than the talk of animate and inanimate things in Æsop's Fables does to B 2 CHAPTER PAGE THE DREAM.
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... seemed to develop itself before my waking eyes , and chapter after chapter mentally took form and shape , and I repeated to myself poor Keats's words : Yet it was but a dream ; yet such a dream That never tongue , although it overteem ...
... seemed to develop itself before my waking eyes , and chapter after chapter mentally took form and shape , and I repeated to myself poor Keats's words : Yet it was but a dream ; yet such a dream That never tongue , although it overteem ...
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... seemed to speak , but a tremulousness only at the first , such as was not inappropriate to his years and long standing . WORDS OF THE OLD OAK . ' The acorn from which I sprang was dropped in a heavy storm , as the time - honoured oak ...
... seemed to speak , but a tremulousness only at the first , such as was not inappropriate to his years and long standing . WORDS OF THE OLD OAK . ' The acorn from which I sprang was dropped in a heavy storm , as the time - honoured oak ...
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... seemed apposite : I swear , by leaf , and wind , and rain , ( And hear me with thine ears ) , That , though I circle in the grain Five hundred rings of years , - yet is my information correct . ) Such as , for example , data like these ...
... seemed apposite : I swear , by leaf , and wind , and rain , ( And hear me with thine ears ) , That , though I circle in the grain Five hundred rings of years , - yet is my information correct . ) Such as , for example , data like these ...
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Abbey abbot aged amongst ancient Anglo-Saxon beautiful Bishop bridge Britons brook call to mind Camden Cenred Christian church coins Coleham common coracle Crida Cruckton curious Cymry Danes district Domesday doubt Druids Eddred England Esla Eyton fish forefathers forest ground heard heart of oak hypocaust king knew known land leaves lived look Lord Marton Pool matter mentioned Meole Minsterley modern never Norman Old Oak Old Oak's locality old Saxon old Tredithic once Oswy passage passed Pengwerne perhaps pleasant Pontesbury Pontesford priest of Hanwood reader recollect referred remarks river river Rea Roman rustling Scrobbesbyrig seemed seen Severn Shrewsbury Shropshire sort South Saxons speak spot Stiperstones stone stream Talking Friend tell things thou thought time-honoured father told took tree turn Uriconium Varangian Varangian Guard venerable father visited Wales Welsh wild wood words Wroxeter
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Page 52 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy. Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy; But he beholds the light and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy. The youth who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And, by the vision splendid, Is on his way attended. At length the man perceives it die away And fade into the light of common day.
Page 23 - I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great Ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright; And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres Like a vast shadow moved; in which the world And all her train were hurled.
Page 259 - Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward : for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Page 24 - Shall I compare thee to a summer's day ?. Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough Winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date...
Page 259 - And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth : so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it ; for I will give it unto thee.
Page 36 - If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
Page 36 - Lo, here the gentle lark, weary of rest, From his moist cabinet mounts up on high, And wakes the morning, from whose silver breast The sun ariseth in his majesty; Who doth the world so gloriously behold, That cedar-tops and hills seem burnish'd gold.
Page 44 - Every one that flatters thee Is no friend in misery. Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find. Every man will be thy friend Whilst thou hast wherewith to spend; But if store of crowns be scant, No man will supply thy want. If that one be prodigal, Bountiful they will him call, And with such-like flattering,
Page 150 - But who is this, what thing of sea or land ? Female of sex it seems, That, so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way, sailing. Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for the isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play...
Page 45 - And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.