The Poems and Prose Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough: With a Selection from His Letters and a Memoir, Volume 1 |
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... hill - men . One day , five or six in all set out on a race from our door by Grasmere Lake to the top of Fairfield . He was the second to reach the summit . His action up hill was peculiar ; he used to lay himself forward almost ...
... hill - men . One day , five or six in all set out on a race from our door by Grasmere Lake to the top of Fairfield . He was the second to reach the summit . His action up hill was peculiar ; he used to lay himself forward almost ...
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... hills , where Mr. Shairp tells us of their meeting . Later in the summer he had some pupils in Ireland , but left them to come over to bid farewell to his brother George , who sailed for America in October 1842. He was deeply attached ...
... hills , where Mr. Shairp tells us of their meeting . Later in the summer he had some pupils in Ireland , but left them to come over to bid farewell to his brother George , who sailed for America in October 1842. He was deeply attached ...
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... hills crowned with pine woods . At Pontarlier they rejoined the railway ; a striking line , seen as they saw it by moonlight , a ' chemin très accidenté , ' keeping half - way up the hill - side , equally steep whether looking up or ...
... hills crowned with pine woods . At Pontarlier they rejoined the railway ; a striking line , seen as they saw it by moonlight , a ' chemin très accidenté , ' keeping half - way up the hill - side , equally steep whether looking up or ...
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... hills were covered with young chest- nuts and flowering arbutus ; the air was fresh and soothing , and he seemed to revive on the heights , but looked with dread on the valley lying beneath , with its white towns shining hot in the sun ...
... hills were covered with young chest- nuts and flowering arbutus ; the air was fresh and soothing , and he seemed to revive on the heights , but looked with dread on the valley lying beneath , with its white towns shining hot in the sun ...
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... hills which he loved and which he had gazed on as he entered Florence , little thinking he should leave it no more . ' Tall cypresses wave over the graves , and the beautiful hills keep guard around ; ' nowhere could there be a lovelier ...
... hills which he loved and which he had gazed on as he entered Florence , little thinking he should leave it no more . ' Tall cypresses wave over the graves , and the beautiful hills keep guard around ; ' nowhere could there be a lovelier ...
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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.