The Contemporary Review, Volume 13A. Strahan, 1870 - Great Britain |
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... King of Naples ; feeling that the ardour and gentleness of the royal lady are not strange to us now , who see the same features in many a lover of the lost , many an unobtrusive , compassionate woman of our own day . In the year 1324 ...
... King of Naples ; feeling that the ardour and gentleness of the royal lady are not strange to us now , who see the same features in many a lover of the lost , many an unobtrusive , compassionate woman of our own day . In the year 1324 ...
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... king's body - guard called Du Frênes ( names that are written in heaven may well be humbly registered here ) . This charitable trio , having rescued some poor women from a life of infamy , rented at first a house for them in the ...
... king's body - guard called Du Frênes ( names that are written in heaven may well be humbly registered here ) . This charitable trio , having rescued some poor women from a life of infamy , rented at first a house for them in the ...
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... king on a secret embassy to Turkey . When sufficiently recovered she set out to join him on his homeward journey , but before she had gone far the news reached her of his sudden death at Rome . There fol- lowed many months of ...
... king on a secret embassy to Turkey . When sufficiently recovered she set out to join him on his homeward journey , but before she had gone far the news reached her of his sudden death at Rome . There fol- lowed many months of ...
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... King Wihtrod , A.d. 694 . It appears also in the laws of Alfred and Ina . • " It is clear that the minster ' early became the system of the Anglo- Saxon Church . It was of the nature of a collegiate church , having cure of souls in a ...
... King Wihtrod , A.d. 694 . It appears also in the laws of Alfred and Ina . • " It is clear that the minster ' early became the system of the Anglo- Saxon Church . It was of the nature of a collegiate church , having cure of souls in a ...
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... King . By ALFRED TENNYSON , D.C.L. , Poet- Laureate . London : Strahan & Co. 1870 . PUBLIC expectation has been for some time awake , looking for the new poem by Mr. Tennyson , which his present publishers were promising . And now that ...
... King . By ALFRED TENNYSON , D.C.L. , Poet- Laureate . London : Strahan & Co. 1870 . PUBLIC expectation has been for some time awake , looking for the new poem by Mr. Tennyson , which his present publishers were promising . And now that ...
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Page 122 - My love thro' flesh hath wrought into my life So far, that my doom is, I love thee still. Let no man dream but that I love thee still. Perchance, and so thou purify thy soul, And so thou lean on our fair father Christ, Hereafter in that world where all are pure We two may meet before high God, and thou Wilt spring to me, and claim me thine, and know I am thine husband — not a smaller soul, Nor Lancelot, nor another. Leave me that, I charge thee, my last hope. Now must I hence. Thro...
Page 120 - Before his work be done; but, being done, Let visions of the night or of the day Come, as they will; and many a time they come, Until this earth he walks on seems not earth, This light that strikes his eyeball is not light, This air that smites his forehead is not air But...
Page 124 - Rose, and the pale King glanced across the field Of battle : but no man was moving there; Nor any cry of Christian heard thereon, Nor yet of heathen; only the wan wave Brake in among dead faces, to and fro Swaying the helpless hands, and up and down Tumbling the hollow helmets of the fallen, And shiver'd brands that once had fought with Rome, And rolling far' along the gloomy shores The voice of days of old and days to be.
Page 125 - Ev'n to the highest he could climb, and saw, Straining his eyes beneath an arch of hand, Or thought he saw, the speck that bare the King, Down that long water opening on the deep Somewhere far off, pass on and on, and go From less to less and vanish into light. And the new sun rose bringing the new year.
Page 16 - And her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way: and, behold, the woman his concubine was fallen down at the door of the house, and her hands were upon the threshold. And he said unto her, "Up, and let us be going.
Page 116 - The cup, the cup itself, from which our Lord Drank at the last sad supper with his own. This, from the blessed land of Aromat — After the day of darkness, when the dead Went wandering o'er Moriah — the good saint...
Page 111 - Rain, rain, and sun! a rainbow in the sky! A young man will be wiser by and by; An old man's wit may wander ere he die. Rain, rain, and sun! a rainbow on the lea! And truth is this to me, and that to thee; And truth or clothed or naked let it be. Rain, sun, and rain! and the free blossom blows: Sun, rain, and sun! and where is he who knows? From the great deep to the great deep he goes.
Page 116 - Joseph, journeying brought To Glastonbury, where the winter thorn Blossoms at Christmas, mindful of our Lord. And there awhile it bode; and if a man Could touch or see it, he was heal'd at once, By faith, of all his ills. But then the times Grew to such evil that the holy cup Was caught away to Heaven, and disappear'd.
Page 181 - In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun : which cometh forth as a bridegroom out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a giant to run his course.
Page 120 - And out of those to whom the vision came My greatest hardly will believe he saw ; Another hath beheld it afar off, And leaving human wrongs to right themselves, Cares but to pass into the silent life. And one hath had the vision face to face, And now his chair desires him here in vain, However they may crown him otherwhere.