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... light of his lady's eyes , and listen to the music of her voice , Leander occasionally swam at night time across the Hellespont , whilst Hero held a torch from a tower to direct him in his course . This practice was persevered in for a ...
... light of his lady's eyes , and listen to the music of her voice , Leander occasionally swam at night time across the Hellespont , whilst Hero held a torch from a tower to direct him in his course . This practice was persevered in for a ...
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... light open places , and others love dark and retirement . Of the British birds kept in confinement for the sake of their song the woodlark , the nightingale , the skylark , the thrush , the blackbird , the linnet , and the goldfinch are ...
... light open places , and others love dark and retirement . Of the British birds kept in confinement for the sake of their song the woodlark , the nightingale , the skylark , the thrush , the blackbird , the linnet , and the goldfinch are ...
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... Light of Love , as a volume dun Of rolling smoke becomes a wreathed splendour In the declining sun . No one can read the ' Life Drama ' without being deeply impressed with the sensuous - not sensual - character of the author ...
... Light of Love , as a volume dun Of rolling smoke becomes a wreathed splendour In the declining sun . No one can read the ' Life Drama ' without being deeply impressed with the sensuous - not sensual - character of the author ...
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... lights and shades of the material universe - the latent energies of nature in her manifold operations symbolical of the varying changes of his own heart , with the joy which flashes in his eye , or the cloud which settles on his brow ...
... lights and shades of the material universe - the latent energies of nature in her manifold operations symbolical of the varying changes of his own heart , with the joy which flashes in his eye , or the cloud which settles on his brow ...
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... light the hidden harmony of things , to enable us to look at nature with the vision and faculty divine ; ' to act as the high priest of the universe , telling us that the real and the ideal ever mingle , and that the material and ...
... light the hidden harmony of things , to enable us to look at nature with the vision and faculty divine ; ' to act as the high priest of the universe , telling us that the real and the ideal ever mingle , and that the material and ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 133 - In happy homes he saw the light Of household fires gleam warm and bright; Above, the spectral glaciers shone, And from his lips escaped a groan, Excelsior! "Try not the pass!
Página 205 - One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime.
Página 168 - ... rapidity. He repeats the tune' taught him by his master, though of considerable length, fully and faithfully. He runs over the quiverings of the canary, and the clear whistlings of the Virginia nightingale or red-bird, with such superior execution and effect, that the mortified songsters feel their own inferiority, and become altogether silent, while he seems to triumph in their defeat, by redoubling his exertions.
Página 63 - Little deeds of kindness, Little words of love, Make our earth an Eden, Like the heaven above.
Página 40 - To the last point of vision, and beyond, Mount, daring warbler! that love-prompted strain, 'Twixt thee and thine a never-failing bond, Thrills not the less the bosom of the plain: Yet might'st thou seem, proud privilege! to sing All independent of the leafy spring.
Página 133 - The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior...
Página 168 - Bird, which he exquisitely manages, are mingled with the screaming of swallows, or the cackling of hens ; amidst the simple melody of the...
Página 29 - THE lark is singing in the blinding sky, Hedges are white with May. The bridegroom sea Is toying with the shore, his wedded bride, And, in the fulness of his marriage joy, He decorates her tawny brow with shells, Retires a space, to see how fair she looks, Then proud runs up to kiss her.
Página 166 - ... and even handsome. The ease, elegance and rapidity of his movements, the animation of his eye, and the intelligence he displays in listening and laying up lessons from almost every species of the feathered creation within his hearing, are really surprising, and mark the peculiarity of his genius.
Página 166 - ... dewy morning, while the woods are already vocal with a multitude of warblers, his admirable song rises preeminent over every competitor. The ear can listen to his music alone, to which that of all the others seems a mere accompaniment.