PublicationsReeves and Turner., 1888 - 92 pàgines |
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Pàgina ii
... dear friend , with whom added years of intercourse only add to my ap- prehension of its value , and who would have had more right than any one to complain , that she has not been able to extinguish in me the very power of delineating ...
... dear friend , with whom added years of intercourse only add to my ap- prehension of its value , and who would have had more right than any one to complain , that she has not been able to extinguish in me the very power of delineating ...
Pàgina xiii
... dear companions " in his daughters , Christy and Isabel ; but , although Baxter was a man of such liberal views as to merit and incur expulsion from the sect of Glass- ites which his forefathers had helped to establish at Dundee , and ...
... dear companions " in his daughters , Christy and Isabel ; but , although Baxter was a man of such liberal views as to merit and incur expulsion from the sect of Glass- ites which his forefathers had helped to establish at Dundee , and ...
Pàgina xv
... DEAR SIR , " Marlow , December 30 , 1817 . " Your candid explanation is very welcome to me , as it relieves me from a weight of uncertainty , and is consistent with my own mode of treating those who honour me with their friendship ...
... DEAR SIR , " Marlow , December 30 , 1817 . " Your candid explanation is very welcome to me , as it relieves me from a weight of uncertainty , and is consistent with my own mode of treating those who honour me with their friendship ...
Pàgina xvi
... dear sir ; is it not Mr. Booth who has persuaded you to see things in this way since your last visit , when no such ... dear Sir , " Yours most sincerely , " P. B. SHELLEY . " To this delightful letter Mary added the following pretty ...
... dear sir ; is it not Mr. Booth who has persuaded you to see things in this way since your last visit , when no such ... dear Sir , " Yours most sincerely , " P. B. SHELLEY . " To this delightful letter Mary added the following pretty ...
Pàgina xviii
... dear friend of her own sex and years . This to Shelley would naturally seem intolerable tyranny ; and no wonder that he was stirred to read the world a fresh homily on this text , concerning marriage and free union . No wonder that one ...
... dear friend of her own sex and years . This to Shelley would naturally seem intolerable tyranny ; and no wonder that he was stirred to read the world a fresh homily on this text , concerning marriage and free union . No wonder that one ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 80 - Of life, at that sweet time when winds are wooing All vital things that wake to bring News of birds and blossoming, Sudden, thy shadow fell on me ; I shrieked, and clasped my hands in ecstasy ! I vowed that I would dedicate my powers To thee and thine : have I not kept the vow...
Pàgina 73 - Apennine In the south dimly islanded ; And the Alps, whose snows are spread High between the clouds and sun ; And of living things each one ; And my spirit, which so long Darkened this swift stream of song, — Interpenetrated lie By the glory of the sky...
Pàgina 82 - I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read...
Pàgina 81 - That thou, O awful Loveliness, Wouldst give whate'er these words cannot express.
Pàgina 48 - Heardst thou not sweet words among That heaven-resounding minstrelsy ! - Heardst thou not, that those who die Awake in a world of ecstasy ? That love, when limbs are interwoven, And sleep, when the night of life is cloven, And thought, to the world's dim boundaries clinging, And music, when one beloved is singing, Is death ? Let us drain right joyously The cup which the sweet bird fills for me.
Pàgina 64 - On the level quivering line Of the waters crystalline ; And before that chasm of light, As within a furnace bright, Column, tower, and dome, and spire, Shine like obelisks of fire...
Pàgina 71 - In thine halls the lamp of learning, Padua, now no more is burning; Like a meteor whose wild way Is lost over the grave of day, It gleams betrayed and to betray.
Pàgina 69 - Men must reap the things they sow, Force from force must ever flow, Or worse ; but 'tis a bitter woe That love or reason cannot change The despot's rage, the slave's revenge.
Pàgina 82 - Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed : And on the pedestal these words appear : 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair !
Pàgina 78 - Why fear and dream and death and birth Cast on the daylight of this earth Such gloom, — why man has such a scope For love and hate, despondency and hope?