Proceedings of the Literary & Philosophical Society of Liverpool, Volume 53The Society, 1899 |
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Page 99 - and Swinburne. With Shaksperian force and dignity he declares that the man whose heart has never opened to the true love of a pure woman, lives A drowning life, besotted in sweet self, Or pines in sad experience worse than death; Or keeps his wing'd affections clipt with crime. The
Page 85 - as it's the best. "Tisn't them as 'as munny as breaks into 'ouses an' steals, Them as 'as coats to their backs, and taakes their regular meals, Noa, but it's them as niver knaws wheer a meal's to be 'ad.
Page 85 - the land. Money is his all-in-all, the source of all power, satisfaction, and happiness. Love is nought unless well gilded ; and beauty is a vain thing. Luvv, what's luvv ? thou can luvv thy lass and her munny too, Maakin' 'em goa togither, as they've good right to do. Couldn
Page 16 - greatest, certainly his most characteristic poem. It opens with a regretful statement of the Straussian position:— Through the great sinful streets of Naples as I passed, With fiercer heat than flamed above my head My heart was hot within me ; till at last My brain was lightened when my tongue had said, Christ is not risen ! Christ is not risen,
Page 88 - old man in a double Nature-simile:— But Philip chattered more than brook or bird: Old Philip: all about the fields you caught His weary day-long chirping, like the dry High-elbowed grigs that leap in summer grass.
Page 90 - FD Maurice and Canon Kingsley exchanged counsel and encouragement with the poets— How best to keep the slender store, How mend the dwellings of the poor, How gain in life, as life advances,
Page 33 - thy powers, And thy clear aims be cross and shifting made; And then thy glad perennial youth would fade, Fade, and grow old at last, and die like ours.
Page 136 - Dictionary, written in the latter part of the 16th century, mentions a singular local usage that had survived to his day in St. Paul's Cathedral. He says he remembered as a child "the comyne of the Holy Ghoste set forthe by a white pigeon that was let to fly out of a hole that is yet to be sene in the
Page 14 - Hewson and Hobbes followed quick upon Adam, on them followed Arthur. Airlie descended the last, effulgent as God of Olympus; Blue, perceptibly blue, was the coat that had white silk facings, "Waistcoat blue, coral-buttoned, the white tie finely adjusted.
Page 90 - Dora," the old poet Wordsworth, a man sparing of his praise and careful of his words, said to its author, in 1846, " Mr. Tennyson, I have been endeavouring all my life to write a pastoral like your " Dora," and have not succeeded.