Memories of Merton (sonnets). Additional sonnets, notes, and illustrationsC. D'Cruiz, 1868 - 195 oldal |
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1 - 5 találat összesen 23 találatból.
3. oldal
... leave , The writers ghosts ; and then distinct I see Their form and fashion , as in life they stood : Some smile and nod ; some look severe and cold ; Some seem deep commune with themselves to hold ; But all look kindly for a while on ...
... leave , The writers ghosts ; and then distinct I see Their form and fashion , as in life they stood : Some smile and nod ; some look severe and cold ; Some seem deep commune with themselves to hold ; But all look kindly for a while on ...
26. oldal
... leaves with juices sorrel - sour abound : When noon lifts up the shadows from the ground , It is all tasteless in its utter badness : When Eve , clutching their reins , hath tamed the madness Of the Sun's chariot steeds , ' tis bitter ...
... leaves with juices sorrel - sour abound : When noon lifts up the shadows from the ground , It is all tasteless in its utter badness : When Eve , clutching their reins , hath tamed the madness Of the Sun's chariot steeds , ' tis bitter ...
51. oldal
... temples , lose its rosy glow . Life is a mountain path , where those who climb , Must needs leave all they pass , beneath , behind ; Green vales below ; at top , eternal snow . Anacreon . O ! rare old Bard ! Like Hecla 51 CXLVIC.
... temples , lose its rosy glow . Life is a mountain path , where those who climb , Must needs leave all they pass , beneath , behind ; Green vales below ; at top , eternal snow . Anacreon . O ! rare old Bard ! Like Hecla 51 CXLVIC.
56. oldal
... leave but thy memory ? What life - waste early life was without thee ! At the first greeting did our spirits mate , As rivers mingle ; and but rarely fate Sends one , in old age , our true friend to be , As a tir'd pilgrim finds a gem ...
... leave but thy memory ? What life - waste early life was without thee ! At the first greeting did our spirits mate , As rivers mingle ; and but rarely fate Sends one , in old age , our true friend to be , As a tir'd pilgrim finds a gem ...
75. oldal
... leave our bed , Till we go forth to join the countless dead ; The sobbing crowd of friends that listeneth Vainly for hope , when no hope lingereth ; The man of law , who when his task is sped , Walks coldly forth into the sunny light ...
... leave our bed , Till we go forth to join the countless dead ; The sobbing crowd of friends that listeneth Vainly for hope , when no hope lingereth ; The man of law , who when his task is sped , Walks coldly forth into the sunny light ...
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Memories of Merton (Sonnets). Additional Sonnets, Notes, and Illustrations John Bruce Norton Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2016 |
Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
Amor Anacreon Anth Ariosto beauty behold bird Book of Sonnet bright Cant Canto Catullus Cicero colour Cowley Dante dead death doth dream dwell earth Ennius Epictetus Euripides fair Fairy fame fate flame flower fortune Fragm Gems Gerus glory golden hand happy hath heart Heaven Heraclitus Hesiod Homer King Lacon life's light lines lives look Lucretius Marcus Aurelius Martial Michael Angelo Milton mind morning mountains never night Note o'er Ocean Omar Khayam omnia Ovid PETRARCH Plato pleasure poem Poet Purgatorio quæ quam quatrains rhyme rivers rose round says Shakespeare Shakespeare's Sonnets sleep smile song Sophocles sorrow soul star sunt sweet Tasso tercets thee Theocritus thine things thou thought Tibullus tomb trees verse Virgil youth γὰρ δὲ ἐν και μὲν τὰ τε τὸ τὸν
Népszerű szakaszok
136. oldal - The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That age is best, which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse, and worst Times, still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time; And while ye may, go marry; For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry.
121. oldal - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant Nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam...
101. oldal - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are...
188. oldal - Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
155. oldal - Annual for me, the grape, the rose, renew The juice nectareous, and the balmy dew ; For me, the mine a thousand treasures brings ; For me, health gushes from a thousand springs ; Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise ; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.
158. oldal - Philosophy The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the Ocean, The winds of Heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single; All things by a law divine In one another's being mingle.
121. oldal - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. "Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the Earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
171. oldal - What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones, The labour of an age in piled stones, Or that his hallowed relics should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of Fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
115. oldal - All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance : it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals.
44. oldal - But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped. For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.