The Living Age, Volume 230Living Age Company, Incorporated, 1901 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
American Anglo-Saxon asked beautiful better birds Blackwood's Magazine called Church color Cornhill Magazine Cutthorpe death door Eccellenza England English eyes face fact father feel France French girl give golf hand head hear heart Henry Lawson human interest Irish Jules Lemaître knew lady less light literature LIVING AGE London look Lord Madame Récamier Maeterlinck Maggie maiden speech Mary MATILDE SERAO matter Maurice Barrès means ment Micah mind Miss mother nature never night Novalis once passion perhaps play poor race replied round Russia seems side silent Sister Giovanna smile soul speak speech spirit Stephen Gwynn sure talk tell thing thou thought tion to-day told truth tuberculosis ture turned voice walk woman women words writing young
Popular passages
Page 627 - Had we but World enough, and Time, This coyness Lady were no crime. We would sit down, and think which way To walk, and pass our long Love's Day. Thou by the Indian Ganges' side Shouldst Rubies find : I by the Tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the Flood : And you should if you please refuse Till the Conversion of the Jews. My vegetable Love should grow Vaster than Empires, and more slow. An hundred years should go to praise Thine Eyes, and on thy Forehead Gaze.
Page 432 - Piper, sit thee down and write In a book, that all may read." So he vanished from my sight, And I plucked a hollow reed, And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear.
Page 432 - Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: "Pipe a song about a Lamb!' So I piped with merry cheer. 'Piper, pipe that song again;
Page 432 - Sleep, my babe; thy food and raiment, House and home, thy friends provide; All without thy care or payment: All thy wants are well supplied.
Page 629 - And sends the fowls to us in care On daily visits through the air. He hangs in shades the orange bright Like golden lamps in a green night, And does in the pomegranates close Jewels more rich than Ormus shows.
Page 432 - World in a grain of sand, And a Heaven in a wild flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And Eternity in an hour. A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all Heaven in a rage. A dove-house fill'd with doves and pigeons Shudders Hell thro
Page 679 - That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements, and feelings, and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from the truth of the description and the sentiment, is denied to me.
Page 715 - The rich and the poor meet together: The Lord is the maker of them all.
Page 202 - Tis less than to be born ; a lasting sleep, A quiet resting from all jealousy ; A thing we all pursue. I know, besides, , It is but giving over of a game That must be lost Phi.
Page 627 - But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near: And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.