The Rural Life of England, Հատոր 2Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1838 - 386 էջ |
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... Plays acted in Churches by the Monks at Easter - Church- wardens ' Accounts at Reading for such Expenses - Paschal Lights ... Play - ― CHAPTER V. Page Whitsuntide Festivities - Sole Religious Festival that continues a Popular one - This ...
... Plays acted in Churches by the Monks at Easter - Church- wardens ' Accounts at Reading for such Expenses - Paschal Lights ... Play - ― CHAPTER V. Page Whitsuntide Festivities - Sole Religious Festival that continues a Popular one - This ...
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... played , And nodding cypress formed a grateful shade ; On whose high branches , waving with the storm , The birds of broadest wing their mansion form ; The chough , the sea - mew , and loquacious crow , And scream aloft , and skim the ...
... played , And nodding cypress formed a grateful shade ; On whose high branches , waving with the storm , The birds of broadest wing their mansion form ; The chough , the sea - mew , and loquacious crow , And scream aloft , and skim the ...
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... played , And planes and cypress in dark greens arrayed ; Around balm - breathing flowers of every hue , The bees ' ambrosia , in the meadows grew . There sate a chief , tremendous to the eye , His couch the rock , his canopy the sky ...
... played , And planes and cypress in dark greens arrayed ; Around balm - breathing flowers of every hue , The bees ' ambrosia , in the meadows grew . There sate a chief , tremendous to the eye , His couch the rock , his canopy the sky ...
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... playing and frolicing like a happy boy , half beside himself with holiday freedom and sunshine ; then vapouring , and rhodo- montading , and reeling along in the very drunken- ness of a luxuriant fancy , intoxicated at the ambrosia ...
... playing and frolicing like a happy boy , half beside himself with holiday freedom and sunshine ; then vapouring , and rhodo- montading , and reeling along in the very drunken- ness of a luxuriant fancy , intoxicated at the ambrosia ...
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... plays upon his head ; the air visits his cheek ; the earth is green beneath him . He thinks not of the dead under his feet ; of the awful stones around him . He does not even see the old man himself , -a more striking memorial of ...
... plays upon his head ; the air visits his cheek ; the earth is green beneath him . He thinks not of the dead under his feet ; of the awful stones around him . He does not even see the old man himself , -a more striking memorial of ...
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Էջ 112 - To him that hath shall be given ; and from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
Էջ 16 - Nature led ; more like a man Flying from something that he dreads, than one Who sought the thing he loved. For Nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days, And their glad animal movements all gone by) To me was all in all.
Էջ 17 - I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture...
Էջ 23 - All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains; and of all that we behold From this green earth ; of all the mighty world Of eye and ear, both what they half create *, And what perceive...
Էջ 344 - Ah ! slowly sink Behind the western ridge, thou glorious Sun ! Shine in the slant beams of the sinking orb, Ye purple heath-flowers ! richlier burn, ye clouds ! Live in the yellow light, ye distant groves! And kindle, thou blue Ocean ! So my friend Struck with deep joy may stand, as I have stood, Silent with swimming sense...
Էջ 21 - Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul...
Էջ 364 - UPON a time, before the faery broods Drove Nymph and Satyr from the prosperous woods, Before King Oberon's bright diadem, Sceptre, and mantle, clasp'd with dewy gem, Frighted away the Dryads and the Fauns...
Էջ 160 - Besides, the childhood of the day has kept Against you come, some orient pearls unwept. Come, and receive them while the light Hangs on the dew-locks of the night, And Titan on the eastern hill Betires himself, or else stands still Till you come forth.
Էջ 20 - If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.
Էջ 160 - As if here were those cooler shades of love. Can such delights be in the street And open fields and we not see't? Come, we'll abroad; and let's obey The proclamation made for May: And sin no more, as we have done, by staying; But, my Corinna, come, let's go a-Maying.