Heath's book of beauty [afterw.] The Book of beauty; or Regal gallery

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Stranica 126 - No — man is dear to man ; the poorest poor Long for some moments in a weary life •' When they can know and feel that they have been, Themselves, the fathers and the dealers out Of some small blessings ; have been kind to such As needed kindness, for this single cause, That we have all of us one human heart.
Stranica 230 - That stifled feeling dare not shed, And changed her cheek from pale to red, And red to pale, as through her ears Those winged words like arrows sped, What could such be but maiden fears ? So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, Love half regrets to kiss it dry...
Stranica 69 - Thy proffer I do scorn ; I will not yield to any Scot That ever yet was born." With that there came an arrow keen Out of an English bow, Which struck Earl Douglas to the heart, A deep and deadly blow ; Who never...
Stranica 68 - The hunting of that day. The stout Earl of Northumberland A vow to God did make, His pleasure in the Scottish woods Three summer days to take; The chiefest harts in Chevy-Chase To kill and bear away.
Stranica 226 - THE winds are high on Helle's wave, As on that night of stormy water When Love, who sent, forgot to save The young, the beautiful, the brave, The lonely hope of Sestos
Stranica 248 - Well, well, he wearied, as men ever weary of woman's complaining, however bitter may be the injury which has wrung reproach from the unwilling lip. Many a sad hour did she spend weeping in the lonely tower, which had once seemed to her like a palace ; for then the radiance of love was around it — and love, forsooth, is something like the fairies in our own land ; for a time it can make all that is base and worthless seem most glittering and precious.
Stranica 126 - House," who, to use that common but most expressive phrase, had turned out " no better than he should do." Luckily, going home one night in a state of intoxication, he broke his neck — an event Mrs. Bird deplored much more than her neighbours thought necessary. However, it was not that sort of grief which requires consolation ; and the widow was not tempted to forget the miseries of her first marriage in the happiness of a second. She never gave hope that triumph over experience, which Dr. Johnson...
Stranica 23 - ... accomplished — I was immortal ; and what was this immortality ? A dark and measureless future. Alas, we had mistaken life for felicity ! What was my knowledge ? it only served to shew its own vanity ; what was my power, when its exercise only served to work out the decrees of an inexorable necessity ? I had parted myself from my kind, but I had not acquired the nature of a spirit. I had lost of humanity but its illusions, and they alone are what render it supportable. The mystic scrolls over...
Stranica 1 - Atlantic, the boundary of two separate worlds, apart like those of memory and of hope! or in the bright Pacific, whose tides are turned to gold by a southern sun, and in whose bosom sleep a thousand isles, each covered with the verdure, the flowers, and the fruit of Eden! But, amid all thy hereditary kingdoms, to which hast thou given beauty, as a birthright, lavishly as thou hast to thy favourite Mediterranean? The silence of a summer night is now sleeping on its bosom, where the bright stars are...
Stranica 244 - ... feathers at each corner; the walls were old; and the tapestry shook with every current of passing air, while the motion gave a mockery of life to its gaunt and faded group. The subject was mythological — the sacrifice of Niobe's children. There were the many shapes of death, from the young warrior to the laughing child ; but all struck by the same inexorable fate. One figure in particular caught Lucy's eye ; it was a youthful female, and she thought it resembled herself: the outline of the...

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