The Wedding Day in Literature and Art: A Collection of the Best Descriptions of Weddings from the Works of the World's Leading Novelists and PoetsDodd, Mead, 1900 - 294 oldal |
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The Wedding Day in Literature and Art: A Collection of the Best Descriptions ... Charles Frederick Carter Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2009 |
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ain't altar asked Bathilde beautiful Bella bells bless Bonaventure breakfast bridal bride and bridegroom bridegroom bridesmaids bright Brothertoft caleche CAPT captain ceremony CHARLES LEVER cheer Chennery cherub church couple cried crowd dance daughter dear door Dora dress EDWARD EGGLESTON eyes face father flowers FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT friends gentlemen girl going groom Gruff and Glum guests hand happy head heard heart HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW honour horses hour J. G. HOLLAND JEAN INGELOW John kissed ladies laugh lips look marriage married Marvyn McCosh merry minister Miss Butterworth Miss Snow Miss Sturch morning never occasion pair person Phippen poor pretty ring Robert Louis Stevenson rose round Roxy seemed side smile stand stood tears tell thing thought took Traddles Trunnion village voice waiting wedding wedding singers whispered wife words young
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148. oldal - That all the woods should answer, and your echo ring. Open the temple gates unto my love, Open them wide that she may enter in, And all the posts adorn as doth behove, And all the pillars deck with garlands trim, For to receive this Saint with honour due, That cometh in to you. With trembling steps, and humble reverence She cometh in, before th' Almighty's view; Of her ye virgins learn obedience, When so ye come into those holy places, To humble your proud faces : Bring her up to th...
xiii. oldal - Golden bells ! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells! Through the balmy air of night How they ring out their delight ! From the molten-golden notes, And all in tune, What a liquid ditty floats To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats On the moon!
95. oldal - His beating heart is not at rest ; And far and wide, With ceaseless flow, His beard of snow Heaves with the heaving of his breast. He waits impatient for his bride. There she stands, With her foot upon...
95. oldal - Slowly, in all his splendors dight, The great sun rises to behold the sight. The ocean old, Centuries old, Strong as youth, and as uncontrolled, Paces restless to and fro, Up and down the sands of gold. His beating heart is not at rest; And far and wide, With ceaseless flow...
139. oldal - Her finger was so small, the ring Would not stay on which they did bring, It was too wide a peck : And to say truth, for out it must, It look'd like the great collar, just, About our young colt's neck.
120. oldal - I REQUIRE and charge you both, as ye will answer at the dreadful day of judgment when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed, that if either of you know any impediment, why ye may not be lawfully joined together in Matrimony, ye do now confess it. For be ye well assured, that so many as are coupled together otherwise than God's Word doth allow are not joined together by God; neither is their Matrimony lawful.
259. oldal - 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.
38. oldal - Gleamed like a grate of brass, and the sea at his feet was a laver! B 176 This was the wedding morn of Priscilla the Puritan maiden. Friends were assembled together; the Elder and Magistrate also Graced the scene with their presence, and stood like the Law and the Gospel, One with the sanction of earth and one with the blessing of heaven.
206. oldal - Moving slow our solemn feet, We have borne thee on the road, To the virgin's blest abode; With thy yellow torches gleaming, And thy scarlet mantle streaming, And the canopy above Swaying as we slowly move. Thou hast left the joyous feast, And the mirth and wine have...
263. oldal - St. Keyne," quoth the countryman, "many a time Drank of this crystal well, And before the angel summoned her She laid on the water a spell. "If the husband of this gifted well Shall drink before his wife, A happy man thenceforth is he, For he shall be master for life. " But if the wife should drink of it first, Heaven help the husband then!" The stranger stooped to the Well of St. Keyne, And drank of the waters again. "You drank of the well, I warrant, betimes?