Out of Town: A Rural Episode

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Hurd and Houghton, 1866 - 311 sider

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Side 159 - ... which are driven into hazards or holes, according to certain rules of the game. The table on which the game is played is generally about twelve feet long and six feet wide, or rather in the exact form of an oblong ; it is covered with fine green cloth, and surrounded with cushions, to prevent the balls rolling off; and to make them rebound. There are six holes, nets, or pockets : these are...
Side 294 - WHO has not heard of the Vale of Cashmere, With its roses the brightest that earth ever gave, Its temples, and grottos, and fountains as clear As the love-lighted eyes that hang over their wave...
Side vi - Here through the long summer days, and through solitary, star-lit nights, he loved to sit, dreaming his gorgeous waking dreams, or pondering the deep problems of ' The Universe,' — that grand * prose poem ' to which he devoted the last and maturest energies of his wonderful intellect.
Side 11 - Bright ising-stars the little beach was spangling, The gold-cup sorrel from his gauzy screen Shone like a fairy crown, enchased and beaded, Left on some morn, when light flashed in their eyes unheeded.
Side 107 - Homed, used shoes with long sharp points, stuffed with tow, and twisted like a ram's horn. It is said, the clergy being highly offended, declaimed against the long-pointed shoes with great vehemence. The points, however, continued to increase, till, in the reign of Richard II.
Side 218 - You have to proclaim glad tidings fresh as when they came from angels' lips, To you is born in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
Side 184 - Slowly and reluctantly the vast assemblage dispersed ; and it was not until late in the afternoon, that the last...
Side 107 - In the 9th and loth centuries the greatest princes of Europe wore wooden shoes, or the upper part of leather and the sole of wood. In the reign of William Rufus, a great beau, Robert, eurnamed the horned, used shoes with long sharp points, stuffed with tow, and twisted like a ram's horn.
Side 91 - Exhibits a brilliancy of poetic diction, and a power of melody of a very high order." — Edinburgh Review, July, 1865. "Mr. Swinburne is a true poet."— Pall Mall Gazette, April 18, 1865. "No one who reads 'Atalanta in Calydon' can doubt that its author is a poet — a poet of great grace, flexibility, and power of expression." — Saturday Review, May 6, 1865. "When it is said that...
Side 45 - ... coming from above. It flowed along the wall, revealing the motion of the hand that held the lamp. He climbed the steps with one hand on the railing and the other on his stick. Its successive taps had long ago acquired a special rhythm, which identified him as easily as his features. Amina was visible at the head of the stairs with the lamp in her hand. On reaching her, he stopped to regain his breath, for his chest was heaving. Then he greeted her in his customary way: "Good evening.

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