The Poems and Prose Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough: With a Selection from His Letters and a Memoir, Volume 1 |
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... beautiful boy , with soft silky , almost black hair , and shining dark eyes , and a small delicate mouth , which our old nurse was so afraid of spoiling , when he was a baby , that she insisted on getting a tiny spoon for his special ...
... beautiful boy , with soft silky , almost black hair , and shining dark eyes , and a small delicate mouth , which our old nurse was so afraid of spoiling , when he was a baby , that she insisted on getting a tiny spoon for his special ...
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... beautiful grove of myrtles rose farther along the shore . ' The other end of the island was the inhabited part . There was the pier busy with its arrivals and departures of steamers , and sailing boats going to and fro between the ...
... beautiful grove of myrtles rose farther along the shore . ' The other end of the island was the inhabited part . There was the pier busy with its arrivals and departures of steamers , and sailing boats going to and fro between the ...
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... beautiful scenery , and visiting places which had any historical associations . She loved what was grand , noble , and enterprising , and was truly religious . She early taught us about God and duty , and having such a loving earthly ...
... beautiful scenery , and visiting places which had any historical associations . She loved what was grand , noble , and enterprising , and was truly religious . She early taught us about God and duty , and having such a loving earthly ...
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... beautiful eyes which I saw opposite to me at dinner in Balliol Hall . ' He had , as we are told , a very high reputation as an undergraduate ; and among his contemporaries and those immediately succeed- ing him , many were found to say ...
... beautiful eyes which I saw opposite to me at dinner in Balliol Hall . ' He had , as we are told , a very high reputation as an undergraduate ; and among his contemporaries and those immediately succeed- ing him , many were found to say ...
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... beautiful autumn afternoon , we lay a long time by the side of the lovely Angle Tarn . The sun , just before he sunk beside Bowfell , was showering down his light , which dimpled the smooth face of the tarn like heavy drops of sun ...
... beautiful autumn afternoon , we lay a long time by the side of the lovely Angle Tarn . The sun , just before he sunk beside Bowfell , was showering down his light , which dimpled the smooth face of the tarn like heavy drops of sun ...
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Page 80 - Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them, and be clean?
Page 276 - And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
Page 392 - tis true I have gone here and there And made myself a motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affections new.
Page 320 - Still roll ; where all the aspects of misery Predominate; whose strong effects are such As he must bear, being powerless to redress; And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man...
Page 344 - More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchanged To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days, On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues, In darkness, and with dangers compassed round, And solitude; yet not alone, while thou Visit'st my slumbers nightly, or when Morn Purples the East.
Page 376 - M. die, quibus in terris inscripti nomina regum nascantur flores, et Phyllida solus habeto. P. non nostrum inter vos tantas componere lites. et vitula tu dignus et hie, et quisquis amores aut metuet dulces aut experietur amaros.
Page 16 - Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
Page 323 - Through busiest street and loneliest glen Are felt the flashes of his pen : He rules mid winter snows, and when Bees fill their hives : Deep in the general heart of men His power survives.
Page 390 - And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.
Page 375 - On the blanch'd sands a gloom; Up the still, glistening beaches, Up the creeks we will hie, Over banks of bright seaweed The ebb-tide leaves dry. We will gaze, from the sand-hills, At the white, sleeping town; At the church on the hill-side — And then come back down. Singing: "There dwells a loved one, But cruel is she ! She left lonely for ever The kings of the sea.