The lady of La Garaye, Band 2

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Seite 126 - Lo ! in that house of misery A lady with a lamp I see Pass through the glimmering gloom, And flit from room to room. And slow, as in a dream of bliss, The speechless sufferer turns to kiss Her shadow, as it falls Upon the darkening walls.
Seite 126 - On England's annals, through the long Hereafter of her speech and song, That light its rays shall cast From portals of the past. A lady with a lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.
Seite 125 - WHENE'ER a noble deed is wrought, Whene'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts, in glad surprise, To higher levels rise. The tidal wave of deeper souls Into our inmost being rolls, And lifts us unawares Out of all meaner cares.
Seite 15 - Northern Circuit. Brief Notes of Travel in Sweden, Finland, and Russia. With a Frontispiece. Crown 8vo.
Seite 9 - CONTENTS: I. SHAKESPEARE AND GOETHE. II. MILTON'S YOUTH. III. THE THREE DEVILS : LUTHER'S, MILTON'S, AND GOETHE'S. IV. DRYDEN, AND THE LITERATURE OF THE RESTORATION. V. DEAN SWIFT. VI. CHATTERTON : A STORY OF THE YEAR 1770. VII. WORDSWORTH. VIII. SCOTTISH INFLUENCE ON BRITISH LITERATURE. IX. THEORIES OF POETRY. X. PROSE AND VERSE : DE QUINCEY.
Seite 3 - The execution is excellent. . . . Like ' Tom Brown's School Days,' the ' White Horse' gives the reader a feeling of gratitude and personal esteem towards the author."— SATURDAY REVIEW.
Seite 9 - British Novelists and their Styles. Being a Critical Sketch of the History of British Prose Fiction. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d. Life of John Milton.
Seite 1 - THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF THE BEST SONGS AND LYRICAL POEMS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Selected and arranged, with Notes, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE.
Seite 8 - In the present instance we have most appropriately one of the deepest thinkers of the present day making the Platonic Dialogues as intelligible iu an English garb, to the English reader, as they are in the original to himself and the comparatively few scholars. . . . The Dialogues are rendered additionally intelligible, and, indeed, interesting to the English reader, by copious explanatory passages thrown in parenthetically here and there...
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