Complete Works, Volumen2Kelmscott Society, 1898 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Adelaide Adelaide of Susa Alcamo Apollo Arbalist aught Azzo beside Bill of Attainder blood Boniface Browning Browning's called Charlemagne Charles child Court crowd crown Dante death deeds dream Earl Ecelin Eglamor Emperor England Este's eyes face fancy fate Ferrara Fiennes Friedrich Ghibellin Goito Guelf Hampden hand head hear heart Hollis House Ireland Italy John of Brienne King King's Lady Carlisle Laud leave live Lombardy look Lord Mantua mind minstrel Muratori Naddo never o'er once Otho Padua Palma Parliament passed Podestà poem poet poet's poetic Pope Pym's Queen Retrude Richard Roman Rome Rudyard Salinguerra Savile scheme Scots song Sordello soul speak step story Straf Strafford strength summoned sure Taurello tell there's thought trust truth turn Vane Venice Verona verse Vicenza wait Wentworth whole word youth
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Página 96 - That autumn eve was stilled : A last remains of sunset dimly burned O'er the far forests, like a torch-flame turned By the wind back upon its bearer's hand In one long flare of crimson ; as a brand, The woods beneath lay black.
Página 260 - Now, yet be saved by this the simplest lore, And take the single course prescribed before, As the king-bird with ages on his plumes Travels to die in his ancestral glooms?
Página 94 - Never, — I should warn you first, — Of my own choice had this, if not the worst Yet not the best expedient, served to tell A story I could body forth so well By making speak, myself kept out of view, The very man as he was wont to do, And leaving you to say the rest for him.
Página 139 - Accomplished! Listen, Mantuans!" Fond essay ! Piece after piece that armour broke away, Because perceptions whole, like that he sought To clothe, reject so pure a work of thought As language : thought may take perception's place But hardly co-exist in any case, Being its mere presentment — of the whole By parts, the simultaneous and the sole By the successive and the many.
Página 95 - Now — not this time desert thy cloudy place To scare me, thus employed, with that pure face ! I need not fear this audience, I make free With them, but then this is no place for thee ! The thunder-phrase of the Athenian, grown Up out of memories of Marathon...
Página 93 - The historical decoration was purposely of no more importance than a background requires; and my stress lay on the incidents in the development of a soul: little else is worth study.
Página 295 - It is now full two hundred and forty years since any man was touched for this alleged crime, to this height, before myself. Let us not awaken these sleeping lions to our destruction, by taking up a few musty records that have lain by the walls so many ages, forgotten or neglected.
Página 110 - Its mastery) or if yet worse befall, And a desire possess it to put all That nature forth, forcing our straitened sphere Contain it ; to display completely here The mastery another life should learn, Thrusting in time eternity's concern...
Página 291 - for never came any man to so lost a business. The army altogether necessitous and unprovided of all necessaries. That part which I bring now with me from Durham, the worst I ever saw. Our horse all cowardly ; the country from Berwick to York in the power of the Scots; an universal affright in all; a general disaffection to the King's service, none sensible of his dishonour. In one word, here alone to fight with all these evils, without anyone to help. God of his goodness deliver me out of this the...
Página 105 - Dusk winding-stairs, dim galleries got past, You gain the inmost chambers, gain at last A maple-panelled room: that haze which seems Floating about the panel, if there gleams A sunbeam over it, will turn to gold And in light-graven characters unfold The Arab's wisdom everywhere...