Thoughts and RecollectionsJ. Murray, 1825 - 237 páginas |
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Página 65 - A glorious form thy shining city wore, Mid cypress thickets of perennial green, With minaret and golden dome between, While thy sea softly kiss'd its grassy shore: Darting across whose blue expanse was seen Of sculptured...
Página 211 - From realm to realm he ran — and never staid ; Kingdoms and crowns he won — and gave away : It seem'd as if his labours were repaid By the mere noise and movement of the fray : No conquests nor acquirements had he made : His chief delight was on...
Página 209 - XVIII., who, under the guidance of successive ministers, was trimming between the loyalists and the liberals, apparently thinking that civility and conciliation was a remedy for all evils,) a friend dared me to prove my assertion ; and, by way of a text, referred me to the character of the crippled abbot, under whose direction, \ ' The convent was all going to the devil, While he, poor creature, thought himself beloved For saying handsome things, and being civil, Wheeling about as he was pull'd and...
Página 210 - Songs, music, languages, and many a lay Asturian or Armoric, Irish, Basque, His ready memory seized and bore away; And ever when the ladies chose to ask, Sir Tristram was prepared to sing and play, Not like a minstrel earnest at his task, But with a sportive, careless, easy style, As if he seemed to mock himself the while.
Página 212 - Her form was as the Morning's blithesome star, That, capp'd with lustrous coronet of beams, Rides up the dawning orient in her car, New-wash'd, and doubly fulgent from the streams ; The Chaldee shepherd eyes her light afar, And on his knees adores her as she gleams : So shone the stately form of MAGGiE LAUDER, And so th' admiring crowds pay homage, and applaud her.
Página 173 - With all his verdure spoiled, and trees adrift, Down the great river to the opening gulf, And there take root an island salt and bare, The haunt of seals, and ores, and sea-mews...
Página 210 - XVIII. ; and if it was not the intention of the author to designate him in particular, the applicability of the passage to the then state of France, and her ruler, shows, at least, the intrinsic truth of the description. Take, in the same way, the character of Sir Tristram, and we shall find its elements, if not in one, in different living persons. * Songs, music, languages, and many a lay Asturian, or Armoric, Irish, Basque, His ready memory seized and bore away ; And ever when the ladies chose...
Página 208 - Mr. Rose has a very elegant essay on Whistlecraft, in his " Thoughts and Recollections by One of the last Century," which thus concludes : — " Beppo, which had a story, and which pointed but one way, met with signal and universal success ; while * The Monks and the Giants * have been little appreciated, by the majority of readers.
Página 187 - Every one conversant with beasts,' says the reviewer, ' knows, that not only their natural, but that many of their acquired qualities, are transmitted by the parents to their offspring. Perhaps the most curious example of the latter fact may be found in the pointer.
Página 158 - Che tepida aura freschi ognora serba, Sicuri si vedean lepri e conigli, E cervi con la fronte alta e superba, Senza temer...