The Bystander: An Illustrated Weekly, Devoted to Travel, Literature, Art, the Drama, Progress, Locomotion, Volume 101906 |
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Page 207 - Not for the world: why, man, she is mine own; And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.
Page 134 - They sweep, that from their feet besprinkling drop 'ispers'd, and leave a track oblique behind. Now on firm land they range; then in the flood They plunge tumultuous; or through reedy pools Rustling they work their way; no holt escapes Their curious search.
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Page 168 - HE lived in that past Georgian day, When men were less inclined to say That " Time is Gold," and overlay With toil their pleasure ; He held some land, and dwelt thereon, — Where, I forget, — the house is gone ; His Christian name, I think, was John, — His surname, Leisure. Reynolds has painted him, — a face Filled with a fine, old-fashioned grace...
Page 134 - O'er yon dank rushy marsh The sly goose-footed prowler bends his course, And seeks the distant shallows. Huntsman, bring Thy eager pack, and trail him to his couch. Hark ! the loud peal begins, the clam'rous joy, The gallant chiding, loads the trembling air. Ye Naiads fair, who o'er these floods preside, Raise up your dripping heads above the wave, And hear our melody. Th...
Page 82 - Looking back upon my wanderings among them, a procession of ruined minds comes before the memory — an old priest lying beside a burning house speechless with terror and dying slowly ; a woman who had barked like a dog since the day her village was burned ; a maiden who became an imbecile because her mother buried her in a hole under the floor to save her from the soldiers ; a lad who turned ill with " fear " from the moment when a soldier put a knife to his throat ; children who flee in terror...
Page 164 - And these had the weather in their favour ; for it is an ill wind that blows no one any good ; and the rain that rains on the just and unjust seems to have a preference for the latter.
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