The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern, with Biographical and Explanatory Notes, Volumen26Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl Clarke Company, Limited, 1899 |
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... Countess de Porhoet - Gael . In the excess of my surprise , I rose abruptly , and was about to speak , when Mlle . de Porhoet , drawing my hand gently back , placed it in Marguerite's . The dear girl started at this sudden contact , and ...
... Countess de Porhoet - Gael . In the excess of my surprise , I rose abruptly , and was about to speak , when Mlle . de Porhoet , drawing my hand gently back , placed it in Marguerite's . The dear girl started at this sudden contact , and ...
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... countess Rhedern welcome . Pöllnitz ' loud , ironical voice proclaimed the arrival of Count and Countess Rhedern and of Count Néal , and the per- sonages thus solemnly announced entered the hall , that sanc- tuary which opens only to ...
... countess Rhedern welcome . Pöllnitz ' loud , ironical voice proclaimed the arrival of Count and Countess Rhedern and of Count Néal , and the per- sonages thus solemnly announced entered the hall , that sanc- tuary which opens only to ...
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... countess ' serious and direct obser- vation of herself . If the countess had approached her with downcast eyes , trembling , overwhelmed by the unheard - of royal condescension , the queen mother might have been inclined to pardon her ...
... countess ' serious and direct obser- vation of herself . If the countess had approached her with downcast eyes , trembling , overwhelmed by the unheard - of royal condescension , the queen mother might have been inclined to pardon her ...
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... Countess Rhedern , the whole court will at once know which is the new- est article for sale by Orguelin , the silk factor , the countess ' father . " A scarcely suppressed laugh of the cavaliers and ladies who had heard the queen's ...
... Countess Rhedern , the whole court will at once know which is the new- est article for sale by Orguelin , the silk factor , the countess ' father . " A scarcely suppressed laugh of the cavaliers and ladies who had heard the queen's ...
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... Countess Rhedern does credit to her birth ? Her father's dealings are carried on with understanding , dignity , generos- ity , and modesty . The countess seems to me to continue her father's business as an efficient heiress , worthy of ...
... Countess Rhedern does credit to her birth ? Her father's dealings are carried on with understanding , dignity , generos- ity , and modesty . The countess seems to me to continue her father's business as an efficient heiress , worthy of ...
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Página 224 - King! Long live our noble King! God save the King! Send him victorious, Happy and glorious, Long to reign over us! God save the King!
Página 233 - My native country, thee, land of the noble free, Thy name I love: I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills; My heart with rapture thrills like that above.
Página 232 - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Página 44 - HAVE you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay, That was built in such a logical way It ran a hundred years to a day, And then, of a sudden, it— ah, but stay, I'll tell you what happened without delay, Scaring the parson into fits, Frightening people out of their wits,— Have you ever heard of that, I say? Seventeen hundred and fifty-five.
Página 117 - THE blessed damozel leaned out From the gold bar of Heaven ; Her eyes were deeper than the depth Of waters stilled at even ; She had three lilies in her hand, And the stars in her hair were seven.
Página 232 - Oh, say, can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming; Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Página 46 - But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook is in his back, And a melancholy crack In his laugh.
Página 38 - Of pictures, I should like to own Titians and Raphaels three or four — I love so much their style and tone — One Turner, and no more. (A landscape, foreground golden dirt, The sunshine painted with a squirt). Of books but few — some fifty score For daily use, and bound for wear; The rest upon an upper floor; Some little luxury there . Of red morocco's gilded gleam, And vellum rich as country cream.
Página 122 - Into the fine cloth white like flame Weaving the golden thread, To fashion the birth-robes for them Who are just born, being dead. ' He shall fear, haply, and be dumb : Then...
Página 389 - In one year they sent a million fighters forth South and North, And they built their gods a brazen pillar high As the sky, Yet reserved a thousand chariots in full force — Gold, of course. Oh heart ! oh blood that freezes, blood that burns ! Earth's returns For whole centuries of folly, noise and sin ! Shut them in, With their triumphs and their glories and the rest ! Love is best.