Routledge's wedding-day book [selections from Engl. poetry] by C.A.M. Burdett |
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6. oldal
The sun was slumbering in the west , My daily labours past , On Anna ' s soft and
gentle breast My head reclined at last ; The darkness closed around , so dear To
fond congenial souls , And thus she whispers in my ear , “ My love , we ' re out ...
The sun was slumbering in the west , My daily labours past , On Anna ' s soft and
gentle breast My head reclined at last ; The darkness closed around , so dear To
fond congenial souls , And thus she whispers in my ear , “ My love , we ' re out ...
122. oldal
June 3 . He ' s witty , wise , and honour ' d too ; Tasteful , learned , thro ' and thro '
; Calm , courageous , just , urbane , Courteous , aye ! without a stain . F . Faludi ,
trans . by Sir 7 . Bowring . Her voice was ever soft , gentle , and lowAn excellent ...
June 3 . He ' s witty , wise , and honour ' d too ; Tasteful , learned , thro ' and thro '
; Calm , courageous , just , urbane , Courteous , aye ! without a stain . F . Faludi ,
trans . by Sir 7 . Bowring . Her voice was ever soft , gentle , and lowAn excellent ...
132. oldal
Use the man that you wed like your fav ' rite guitar ; Tho ' music in both , they are
both apt to jar ; How tuneful and soft from a delicate touch , Not handled too
roughly nor play ' d on too much ! Garrick . When I said I would die a bachelor , I
did ...
Use the man that you wed like your fav ' rite guitar ; Tho ' music in both , they are
both apt to jar ; How tuneful and soft from a delicate touch , Not handled too
roughly nor play ' d on too much ! Garrick . When I said I would die a bachelor , I
did ...
162. oldal
Anger is like a troubled sea ; when it is corrected with a soft reply , as with a little
strand , it retires , and leaves nothing behind but froth and shells . Jeremy Taylor .
July 30 . I have honour and fame full enough for my lot , And my gettings still ...
Anger is like a troubled sea ; when it is corrected with a soft reply , as with a little
strand , it retires , and leaves nothing behind but froth and shells . Jeremy Taylor .
July 30 . I have honour and fame full enough for my lot , And my gettings still ...
168. oldal
Love ' s feeling is more soft and sensible Than are the tender horns of cockled
snails . Shakespeare ( Love ' s Labour ' s Lost ) . August 2 . O ! smitten by high
Heaven be he Who gives his love to two or three ; I love but one - - and if he fail
me ...
Love ' s feeling is more soft and sensible Than are the tender horns of cockled
snails . Shakespeare ( Love ' s Labour ' s Lost ) . August 2 . O ! smitten by high
Heaven be he Who gives his love to two or three ; I love but one - - and if he fail
me ...
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Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
Anonymous aught August beauty bliss Bowring breath bright Byron charm comes Cowper dear December December 11 delight doth Dream duty E. B. Browning earth eyes face fair faith February feel fire flower Garrick gentle Gentlemen of Verona give grace ground half hand happy hath hear heart heaven husband January John July June kind King kiss Lady leaves light live Longfellow The Spanish look Lost love thee Love's March married meet mind Moore ne'er never night November obey October 24 once pleasing pleasure Pope Proverb rose Scotch Song September Shakespeare Shakespeare Two Gentlemen Shelley shine smile soft soul Spanish Student Spenser stars sweet tell tender thee There's thine thing Thomas thou art thought thro tongue trans true truth turn wedded wife wives woman women worth Young youth
Népszerű szakaszok
236. oldal - What years, i' faith? Vio. About your years, my lord. DUKE. Too old, by heaven : let still the woman take An elder than herself : so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart...
208. oldal - Such duty as the subject owes the prince, Even such, a woman oweth to her husband...
166. oldal - Romeo, and when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine, That all the world will be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish Sun.
166. oldal - Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light: But, oh ! she dances such a way— No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight.
142. oldal - From his cradle He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Lofty and sour to them that loved him not ; But, to those men that sought him, sweet as summer...
102. oldal - Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind ; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind...
140. oldal - No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close ; As the sun-flower turns on her god, when he sets, The same look which she turned when he rose.
204. oldal - O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem By that sweet ornament which truth doth give ! The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live. The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses, Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly When summer's breath their masked buds discloses: But, for their virtue only is their show, They live unwoo'd and unrespected fade; Die to themselves.
142. oldal - Tis sweet to hear the watch-dog's honest bark Bay deep-mouthed welcome as we draw near home; Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark Our coming, and look brighter when we come...
86. oldal - Sir, I love you more than words can wield the matter, Dearer than eye-sight, space and liberty, Beyond what can be valued, rich or rare...