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Page 80
... soon completely absorbed , forgetting even the giver of that as of all my other pleasures . Is it not often the way of the world to forget the giver in his gifts ? It was not a book to be easily read , under- stood , and forgotten . It ...
... soon completely absorbed , forgetting even the giver of that as of all my other pleasures . Is it not often the way of the world to forget the giver in his gifts ? It was not a book to be easily read , under- stood , and forgotten . It ...
Page 83
... soon vanished , so did all traces of emotion , save that he lifted me out of the boat , and put me down far from the edge of the loch , as if he could not trust me near the water again . " Did not the book please you ? " I asked . " To ...
... soon vanished , so did all traces of emotion , save that he lifted me out of the boat , and put me down far from the edge of the loch , as if he could not trust me near the water again . " Did not the book please you ? " I asked . " To ...
Page 84
... soon as they were spoken I would have given more than my life to recall them but we were both silent . Harold drew my arm through his , and led me down . It was a wild country place ; the houses were scattered far and wide , and ...
... soon as they were spoken I would have given more than my life to recall them but we were both silent . Harold drew my arm through his , and led me down . It was a wild country place ; the houses were scattered far and wide , and ...
Page 108
... soon , Sylvo will go away . " " Dear Aunt Burtonshaw , it must not be soon , " said Mary , growing red and serious ; " and indeed you must not speak of it again . Poor Sylvo , he deserves better than to have me laughing at him , and you ...
... soon , Sylvo will go away . " " Dear Aunt Burtonshaw , it must not be soon , " said Mary , growing red and serious ; " and indeed you must not speak of it again . Poor Sylvo , he deserves better than to have me laughing at him , and you ...
Page 139
... soon as firing had commenced , I should fire and load as expe- SOLDIERS who have been engaged in " the ditiously as possible , taking good aim ; in dreadful revelry " of war , are often asked how which case , he assured me , that I ...
... soon as firing had commenced , I should fire and load as expe- SOLDIERS who have been engaged in " the ditiously as possible , taking good aim ; in dreadful revelry " of war , are often asked how which case , he assured me , that I ...
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Page 134 - I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges.
Page 16 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies; The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight. Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
Page 33 - There is but one With whom she has heart to be gay. When will the dancers leave her alone? She is weary of dance and play." Now half to the setting moon are gone, And half to the rising day; Low on the sand and loud on the stone The last wheel echoes away.
Page 346 - tis certain ; very sure, very sure : death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all ; all shall die.
Page 134 - I CHATTER over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. With many a curve my banks I fret By many a field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow. I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.
Page 33 - She is coming, my dove, my dear; She is corning, my life, my fate; The red rose cries, "She is near, she is near"; And the white rose weeps, "She is late"; The larkspur listens, "I hear, I hear"; And the lily whispers, "I wait.
Page 30 - Sooner or later I too may passively take the print Of the golden age - why not? I have neither hope nor trust; May make my heart as a millstone, set my face as a flint, Cheat and be cheated, and die: who knows? we are ashes and dust.
Page 33 - For the black bat, night, has flown, Come into the garden, Maud, I am here at the gate alone ; And the woodbine spices are wafted abroad, And the musk of the rose is blown.
Page 33 - For ever and ever, mine.' VI And the soul of the rose went into my blood, As the music clash'd in the hall ; And long by the garden lake I stood, For I heard your rivulet fall From the lake to the meadow and on to the wood, Our wood, that is dearer than all...
Page 127 - A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales, that from ye blow, A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem...