The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby ...Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854 - 376 էջ |
Այլ խմբագրություններ - View all
Common terms and phrases
beautiful behold BERTRAND bestiarii BLANCH Borrowdale bosom breast bright Buckley Buckley Hall canst Caracalla CARLOS Cedric chamber character charmed Clegg Hall cloud concealed Conrad dame dark death delight diest Doctor door doth DUKE Duke of Mantua emperor Enter errand Exeunt FABIAN fancy fearful feel felt gave gaze genius Gervase Grace Ashton Grasmere hand hath heard heart HERMIONE hope hour JOHN ROBY Keswick lady Lancashire LAURA Leonora light listen looked lord lover Mantua master mind morning mortal mysterious nature never night o'er once pleasure present racter Red Woman reply RIDOLFI ring Rivington Pike Roby Roby's Rochdale ROLAND Rosicrucian SCENE seemed shadow smile soothsayer soul spirit STEPHANO strange stranger thine thing thou art thou hast thou shalt thou wilt thought tongue Vessey victim Virius Lupus voice watch wind word yonder ZORAYDA
Սիրված հատվածներ
Էջ 112 - When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
Էջ 123 - So let thy pardoning love be found. 3 O wash my soul from every sin, And make my guilty conscience clean ; Here on my heart the burden lies, And past offences pain mine eyes. 4 My lips with shame my sins confess Against thy law, against thy grace ; Lord, should thy judgment grow severe, I am condemned, but thou art clear. 5 Should sudden vengeance seize my breath, I must pronounce thee just, in death ; And if my soul were sent to hell, Thy righteous law approves it well.
Էջ 109 - I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Էջ 54 - not like an anchorite who keeps his cell, but like one of those unholy hermits who wander about the world to see and hear wonders," and some such sense of depreciation is usually given to the phrase.
Էջ 28 - ... go before a magistrate to make their affidavit, there will be but little additional trouble in satisfying the requisition of the law in both particulars; which had therefore better be done. I have the honor to remain, sir, with great respect, your obedient servant, To the SECRETARY OF THE NAVY.
Էջ 113 - ... agency in relation to all great objects, may aggravate the impression, often so insufficient, of the absolute supremacy of God, of the total dependence of all mortal strength and effort on him, and of the necessity of maintaining habitually a devout respect to his intervention. It might promote that last attainment of a zealously good man, the resignation to be as diminutive and as imperfectly successful an agent as God pleases. I...
Էջ 61 - They talked of a distinguished living writer [Macaulay?^ ; of his style, Mr Wordsworth remarked, that every sentence seemed finished by itself, which was never the case with our best writers — that reviewing had an injurious effect on the style of a literary man, the reviewer has ever to be saying something that will tell, every sentence must be striking.. . .One other remark he made must not be forgotten; speaking of a writer whom he considered not a safe guide on account of his prejudices, he...
Էջ 100 - Israeli has happily touched on this frequent characteristic of the race of which he treats : — " One peculiar trait in the conversations of men of genius which has often injured them when the listeners were not intimately acquainted with the man, are certain sports of a vacant mind ; a sudden impulse to throw out opinions and take views of things in some humour of the moment.