The Dartmouth, Band 3

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1869

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Seite 211 - potency of life in them, to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve, as in a phial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Seite 301 - Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive. Yea better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
Seite 374 - And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake, She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her that she did pity them. This only is the witchcraft I have used: Here comes the lady; let her witness it.
Seite 308 - And he bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother. And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him; and they wept.
Seite 373 - Yet, by your gracious patience, I will a round unvarnished tale deliver Of my whole course of love; what drugs, what charms, What conjuration and what mighty magic, For such proceeding I am charged withal, I won his daughter.
Seite 128 - I lifted up my head and methought I saw, as if the sun that shineth in the Heavens, did grudge to give me light; as if the very stones in the street and the tiles upon the houses did band themselves against me.
Seite 388 - There is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion; for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him
Seite 345 - And he gathers the prayers as he stands, And they change into flowers in his hands, Into garlands of purple and red; And beneath the great arch of the portal, Through the streets of the city immortal, Is wafted the fragrance they shed.
Seite 373 - A maiden never bold, Of spirit so still and quiet, that her motion Blushed at herself; and she, in spite of nature, Of years, of country, credit, everything, To fall in love.
Seite 371 - At length corruption like a general flood, Did deluge all, and avarice creeping on Spread like a low-born mist and hid the sun. Statesmen and patriots plied alike the stocks Peeress and butler shared alike the box; And judges jobbed and bishops bit the town And mighty dukes packed cards for half a crown.

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