The Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth LongfellowChatto and Windus, 1874 - 785 pages |
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... singing merrily in the trees , and the landscape wore that look of gaiety so well described in the quaint language of an old romance , making the " sad , pensive , and aching heart to rejoice , and to throw off mourning and sadness ...
... singing merrily in the trees , and the landscape wore that look of gaiety so well described in the quaint language of an old romance , making the " sad , pensive , and aching heart to rejoice , and to throw off mourning and sadness ...
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... sing , and " possess myself in much quietness . " Just at my feet lay the little silver pool , with the sky and the woods painted in its mimic vault , and occasionally the image of a bird , or the soft watery outline of a cloud ...
... sing , and " possess myself in much quietness . " Just at my feet lay the little silver pool , with the sky and the woods painted in its mimic vault , and occasionally the image of a bird , or the soft watery outline of a cloud ...
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... sing of love and pleasure . I often thought it would have been a good lesson for the crabbed and discontented rich ... singing , in so cheerful a voice , the charms of existence , and , as it were , fiddling life away to a merry tune . I ...
... sing of love and pleasure . I often thought it would have been a good lesson for the crabbed and discontented rich ... singing , in so cheerful a voice , the charms of existence , and , as it were , fiddling life away to a merry tune . I ...
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... singing a love - lorn ditty to the sound of a lute , is Amadis de Gaul , lamenting the cruelty of the fair Oriane ; and the beardless youth in yonder castle hall , beset by six armed knights at once , is Doolin de Mayance . While we are ...
... singing a love - lorn ditty to the sound of a lute , is Amadis de Gaul , lamenting the cruelty of the fair Oriane ; and the beardless youth in yonder castle hall , beset by six armed knights at once , is Doolin de Mayance . While we are ...
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... singing , " Rise up , rise up , brother Dives , And come along with me , For you've a place provided in hell , To sit upon a serpent's knee . " But there was no serpent's knee for Doctor Faustus . When conjured from his dread abode , he ...
... singing , " Rise up , rise up , brother Dives , And come along with me , For you've a place provided in hell , To sit upon a serpent's knee . " But there was no serpent's knee for Doctor Faustus . When conjured from his dread abode , he ...
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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...
Page 785 - Broad Grins,'' " My Nightgown and Slippers," and other Humorous Works, Prose and Poetical, of GEORGE COLMAN. With Life by GB BUCKSTONE, and Frontispiece by HOGARTH. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, 7s.
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.
Page 13 - LIFE IN LONDON : or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., and his Elegant Friend, Corinthian Tom.