The Book of Elegant Extracts ...W.P. Nimmo, 1875 - 148 pages |
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... whisper went about among the oldest there that she had seen and talked with angels ; and , when they called to mind ... whispering groups of three or four , the church was cleared in time of all but the sexton and the mourning friends ...
... whisper went about among the oldest there that she had seen and talked with angels ; and , when they called to mind ... whispering groups of three or four , the church was cleared in time of all but the sexton and the mourning friends ...
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... " The game is done ! I've , I've won ! " Quoth she , and whistles thrice . The sun's rim dips ! the stars rush out : At one stride comes the dark ; With far - heard whisper , o'er the sea , 28 THE BOOK OF ELEGANT EXTRACTS .
... " The game is done ! I've , I've won ! " Quoth she , and whistles thrice . The sun's rim dips ! the stars rush out : At one stride comes the dark ; With far - heard whisper , o'er the sea , 28 THE BOOK OF ELEGANT EXTRACTS .
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With far - heard whisper , o'er the sea , Off shot the spectre - bark . We listen'd and look'd sideways up ! Fear at my heart , as at a cup , My life - blood seem'd to sip ! The stars were dim , and thick the night , The steersman's ...
With far - heard whisper , o'er the sea , Off shot the spectre - bark . We listen'd and look'd sideways up ! Fear at my heart , as at a cup , My life - blood seem'd to sip ! The stars were dim , and thick the night , The steersman's ...
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... whisper , whether the last letters brought any accounts that one might rely upon from Bender . I told him none that I heard of , and asked him whether he had yet married his eldest daughter . He told me no . But pray , says he , tell me ...
... whisper , whether the last letters brought any accounts that one might rely upon from Bender . I told him none that I heard of , and asked him whether he had yet married his eldest daughter . He told me no . But pray , says he , tell me ...
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... whisper , I expected to hear some secret piece of news which he had not thought fit to communicate on the bench ; but instead of that , he desired me in my ear to lend him half - a- In compassion to so needy a statesman , and to ...
... whisper , I expected to hear some secret piece of news which he had not thought fit to communicate on the bench ; but instead of that , he desired me in my ear to lend him half - a- In compassion to so needy a statesman , and to ...
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Page 137 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul, All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Page 66 - And shook it forth with a royal will. " Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag," she said. A shade of sadness, a blush of shame, Over the face of the leader came ; The nobler nature within him stirred To life at that woman's deed and word : " Who touches a hair of yon gray head Dies like a dog ! March on !
Page 110 - Oh, from out the sounding cells, What a gush of euphony voluminously wells ! How it swells ! How it dwells On the Future ! how it tells Of the rapture that impels To the swinging and the ringing Of the bells, bells, bells, Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells— To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells...
Page 55 - So many hours must I tend my flock; So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate; So many hours must I sport myself...
Page 55 - To kings, that fear their subjects' treachery ? O, yes it doth ; a thousand-fold it doth. And to conclude, — the shepherd's homely curds, His cold thin drink out of his leather bottle, His wonted sleep under a fresh tree's shade, All which secure and sweetly he enjoys, Is far beyond a prince's delicates, His viands sparkling in a golden cup, • His body couched in a curious bed, When care, mistrust, and treason wait on him.
Page 110 - Oh, the bells, bells, bells! What a tale their terror tells Of Despair! How they clang, and clash, and roar! What a horror they outpour On the bosom of the palpitating air! Yet the ear it fully knows, By the twanging, And the clanging, How the danger ebbs and flows; Yet the ear distinctly tells, In the jangling, And the wrangling, How the danger sinks and swells, By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells Of the bells Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells In the clamor...
Page 28 - The Sun's rim dips; the stars rush out: At one stride comes the dark; With far-heard whisper, o'er the sea, Off shot the spectre-bark.
Page 93 - Hounds are in their couples yelling, Hawks are whistling, horns are knelling, Merrily, merrily, mingle they, "Waken, lords and ladies gay.
Page 21 - She was dead. No sleep so beautiful and calm, so free from trace of pain, so fair to look upon. She seemed a creature fresh from the hand of God, and waiting for the breath of life ; not one who had lived and suffered death.
Page 11 - I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.