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| English poets - English poetry - 1889 - 596 pages
...palace court, When sages look'd to Egypt for their lore. But oh ! how unlike marble was that face ! How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more...sullen rear Was, with its stored thunder, labouring up. AUTUMN. SEASON of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring... | |
| Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 654 pages
...palace-court, When sages look'd to Egypt for their lore. But oh ! how unlike marble was that face : How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's sel£ There was a listening fear in her regard, As if calamity had but begun ; As if the vanward clouds... | |
| Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - English literature - 1882 - 426 pages
...palace-court, Where sages look'd to Egypt for their lore. But, oh ! how unlike marble was that face, How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more...sullen rear Was with its stored thunder labouring up. One hand she press'd upon that aching spot Where beats the human heart, as if just there, Though an... | |
| James Baldwin - English language - 1882 - 632 pages
...palace court, When sages looked to Egypt for their lore. But oh ! how unlike marble was that face! How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more...regard, As if calamity had but begun ; As if the vanward cJouds of evil days Had spent their malice, and the sullen rear Was, with its stored thunder, laboring... | |
| Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - English literature - 1882 - 420 pages
...palace-court, Where sages look'd to Egypt for their lore. But, oh ! how unlike marble was that face, How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more...her regard, As if calamity had but begun, As if the van ward clouds of evil days Had spent their malice, and the sullen rear Was with its stored thunder... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1882 - 566 pages
...like the inky waves with a stonn in tiie distance. " As if calamity bad JIM begun : As if the van ward clouds of evil days Had spent their malice, and the...sullen rear Was with its stored thunder labouring up." To pnss from the graver to the minor concerns of life, 110 card-player exists but must some time have... | |
| John Keats - 1882 - 440 pages
...palace-court, When sages look d to Egypt for their lore. But oh ! how unlike beauty was that face ; How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more beautiful than beauty's self ! [There was a list'ning fear in her regard, As if calamity had but begun ; , • As if the venomed clouds of evil... | |
| Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - English literature - 1882 - 424 pages
...palace-court, Where sages look'd to Egypt for their lore. But, oh ! how unlike marble was that face, How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more beautiful than beauty's self. There wa's a listening fear in her regard, As if calamity had but begun, •»&s- if the van ward clouds... | |
| Autumn leaves - 1882 - 210 pages
...things divine, To rob the relic and deface the shrine.' 5. ' But oh ! how unlike marble was that face : How beautiful if sorrow had not made Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self !' 6. ' Fairy King, attend and mark I do hear the morning lark.' 7. ' Who slew his Paynim love.' 8.... | |
| Philip Schaff - Church history - 1882 - 896 pages
...and Augustine, and speaks of Christ as " full of mingled majesty and tenderness in — ' That face How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more beautiful than beauty's self.' " On artistic representations of Christ see JB CABPZOV : De oris el cm-pans J. Christ i forma Psvudo-Len/uli,... | |
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