The Poems and Prose Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough: With a Selection from His Letters and a Memoir, Volume 1 |
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... happy time for Arthur . He still went on reading history and poetry with our mother . About this time , I believe , he read with her some of Robert- son's " Charles V. , " and the struggle in the Netherlands in Watson's " Philip II ...
... happy time for Arthur . He still went on reading history and poetry with our mother . About this time , I believe , he read with her some of Robert- son's " Charles V. , " and the struggle in the Netherlands in Watson's " Philip II ...
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... happy enough . We reached Milton Lockhart , a beautiful place , built on a high grassy headland , beneath and round which winds the Clyde . Sir Walter Scott , I believe , chose the site , and none could be more beautifully chosen . It ...
... happy enough . We reached Milton Lockhart , a beautiful place , built on a high grassy headland , beneath and round which winds the Clyde . Sir Walter Scott , I believe , chose the site , and none could be more beautifully chosen . It ...
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... happy and most instructive walks and talks with him . We used to meet every day almost , though at different colleges ; and it was my regular Sunday holiday to breakfast with him , and then take a long ramble over Cumnor Hurst or Bagley ...
... happy and most instructive walks and talks with him . We used to meet every day almost , though at different colleges ; and it was my regular Sunday holiday to breakfast with him , and then take a long ramble over Cumnor Hurst or Bagley ...
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... happy in his work , and happy in his home life . It would be easy , were it necessary , to show from his poems how strong in him was the sense of family feeling , how tenderly and delicately he appreciated the family relations , how ...
... happy in his work , and happy in his home life . It would be easy , were it necessary , to show from his poems how strong in him was the sense of family feeling , how tenderly and delicately he appreciated the family relations , how ...
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... happy and peaceful though laborious life was approaching a too early close . There was never to be any complete opportunity given here for showing to the full what his best friends believed to be in him , and what his poems partly ...
... happy and peaceful though laborious life was approaching a too early close . There was never to be any complete opportunity given here for showing to the full what his best friends believed to be in him , and what his poems partly ...
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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.