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Side 15
... asked about Sir Anthony Cooke and his daughters , does not remember that such persons existed . The second might laugh outright , if asked how Elizabeth was apparelled , and how many dresses she had in her wardrobe at the time of her ...
... asked about Sir Anthony Cooke and his daughters , does not remember that such persons existed . The second might laugh outright , if asked how Elizabeth was apparelled , and how many dresses she had in her wardrobe at the time of her ...
Side 16
... asked how the Spanish Armada was arranged for battle , remembers nothing in connection with it , excepting the royal heroine riding down the ranks at Tilbury Fort , and haranguing the soldiers . If your atten- tion has been thus ...
... asked how the Spanish Armada was arranged for battle , remembers nothing in connection with it , excepting the royal heroine riding down the ranks at Tilbury Fort , and haranguing the soldiers . If your atten- tion has been thus ...
Side 45
... asked the young lady . Some of the older English poets are now almost unintel- ligible , from their quaint phraseology and obsolete words . Chaucer and Surrey have been modernized ; but there is little before the Augustan age of English ...
... asked the young lady . Some of the older English poets are now almost unintel- ligible , from their quaint phraseology and obsolete words . Chaucer and Surrey have been modernized ; but there is little before the Augustan age of English ...
Side 46
... asked him his age : " Just two years younger than your Majesty's happy reign . " Edmund Spenser , the first in point of time in this reign , immortalized himself by his Faery Queen . It is an elabo- rate allegorical poem , of which only ...
... asked him his age : " Just two years younger than your Majesty's happy reign . " Edmund Spenser , the first in point of time in this reign , immortalized himself by his Faery Queen . It is an elabo- rate allegorical poem , of which only ...
Side 84
... asked what passions were gratified . Alice . You can tell me , then , how they are gratified ? Irene . Ambition - a desire to excel ; did we not so define it at school ? When you prepare yourself for a promenade , do you not desire to ...
... asked what passions were gratified . Alice . You can tell me , then , how they are gratified ? Irene . Ambition - a desire to excel ; did we not so define it at school ? When you prepare yourself for a promenade , do you not desire to ...
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Side 214 - The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains. — Beautiful ! I linger yet with nature, for the night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man ; and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness, I learned the language of another world.
Side 146 - She openeth her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up and call her blessed, her husband also, and he praiseth her.
Side 152 - When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother ; Woman, behold thy son ! Then saith he to the disciple ; Behold thy Mother ! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own iiome.
Side 155 - Things vulgar and, well weighed, scarce worth the praise? They praise, and they admire they know not what. And know not whom, but as one leads the other...
Side 231 - A something, light as air — a look, A word unkind or wrongly taken — Oh! love, that tempests never shook, A breath, a touch like this hath shaken.
Side 214 - twere anew, the gaps of centuries; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old! — The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Side 204 - All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all 'the dread magnificence of heaven, O how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! X.
Side 16 - The primrose by the river's brim A yellow primrose is to him, And it is nothing more.
Side 125 - My lord, it is better to be out of the world than out of the fashion.
Side 31 - Each flower of slender stalk, whose head, though gay Carnation, purple, azure, or specked with gold, Hung drooping unsustained; them she upstays Gently with myrtle band, mindless the while Herself, though fairest unsupported flower, From her best prop so far, and storm so nigh.