The Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth LongfellowChatto and Windus, 1874 - 785 pages |
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... Saint Gilgen 488 VI . After Dinner , and after the Manner of the Best VI . Saint Wolfgang 494 Critics VII . Take Care vion . 438 VII . The Story of Brother Bernardus 502 445 VIII . The Fountain of Obli- IX . A Talk on the Stairs VIII ...
... Saint Gilgen 488 VI . After Dinner , and after the Manner of the Best VI . Saint Wolfgang 494 Critics VII . Take Care vion . 438 VII . The Story of Brother Bernardus 502 445 VIII . The Fountain of Obli- IX . A Talk on the Stairs VIII ...
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... Saint Gilgen • 488 VI . After Dinner , and after VI . Saint Wolfgang 494 the Manner of the Best Critics . 438 VII . The Story of Brother Bernardus • 502 VII . Take Care 445 VIII . The Fountain of Obli- VIII . Footprints of Angels IX ...
... Saint Gilgen • 488 VI . After Dinner , and after VI . Saint Wolfgang 494 the Manner of the Best Critics . 438 VII . The Story of Brother Bernardus • 502 VII . Take Care 445 VIII . The Fountain of Obli- VIII . Footprints of Angels IX ...
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... saints and martyrs that stood in every recess -the figures of armed knights upon the tombs - the un- certain light that stole ... saint , or pass- ing between the lofty columns of the church - all I had read of , but had not seen - I was ...
... saints and martyrs that stood in every recess -the figures of armed knights upon the tombs - the un- certain light that stole ... saint , or pass- ing between the lofty columns of the church - all I had read of , but had not seen - I was ...
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... Saint Anthony . He was a little , jolly , red - faced Friar , with a leer in his eye , and rather a naughty reputation for a man of his cloth ; but as he was a kind of travelling gazette , and always brought the latest news and gossip ...
... Saint Anthony . He was a little , jolly , red - faced Friar , with a leer in his eye , and rather a naughty reputation for a man of his cloth ; but as he was a kind of travelling gazette , and always brought the latest news and gossip ...
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... saints was much more strong and prevalent than in these lewd and degenerate times ; and as there seemed no great probability of improving their condition by any lucky change which could be brought ... saint of THE MONK OF ST . ANTHONY . 49.
... saints was much more strong and prevalent than in these lewd and degenerate times ; and as there seemed no great probability of improving their condition by any lucky change which could be brought ... saint of THE MONK OF ST . ANTHONY . 49.
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Page 74 - ... he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner...
Page 269 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Page 283 - midst its dreary dells, Whose walls more awful nod By thy religious gleams. Or if chill blustering winds, or driving rain, Prevent my willing feet, be mine the hut, That from the mountain's side, Views wilds, and swelling floods, And hamlets brown, and dim-discover'd spires, And hears their simple bell, and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil.
Page 469 - Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Page 291 - Ye ! who have traced the Pilgrim to the scene Which is his last, if in your memories dwell A thought which once was his, if on ye swell A single recollection, not in vain He wore his sandal-shoon and scallop-shell; Farewell ! with him alone may rest the pain, If such there were — with you, the moral of his strain.
Page 276 - Now therein of all sciences (I speak still of human, and according to the humane conceits) is our poet the monarch. For he doth not only show the way, but giveth so sweet a prospect into the way, as will entice any man to enter into it.
Page 278 - A. soul sheathed in a crystal shrine, Through which all her bright features shine ; As when a piece of wanton lawn, A thin...
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Page 584 - I have trodden the wine-press alone, and of the people there was none with me : for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury, and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
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