Last GleaningsSampson Low, Son and Marston, 1864 - 257 pages |
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... pan of blue - fire has been kindled and Columbine and Harlequin in their dazzling draperies come bounding upon the stage . ' After which seasonable , if not reasonable , morsel of metaphor ( what can you do without metaphor PREFACE . xi.
... pan of blue - fire has been kindled and Columbine and Harlequin in their dazzling draperies come bounding upon the stage . ' After which seasonable , if not reasonable , morsel of metaphor ( what can you do without metaphor PREFACE . xi.
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... stage may be called the Era of Pain . Then was my body given over to the Furies , who bound my limbs with withes of livid steel , and with their long lank fingers scooped icy channels round my heart . Then did Despair sit upon my ...
... stage may be called the Era of Pain . Then was my body given over to the Furies , who bound my limbs with withes of livid steel , and with their long lank fingers scooped icy channels round my heart . Then did Despair sit upon my ...
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... stage of my suffering was over , and the doctor ceased to surfeit me with opium . The Era of the Eyes came next . It did not last long , but was very terrible . My room - for I had awakened to reality sufficiently to know I was in a ...
... stage of my suffering was over , and the doctor ceased to surfeit me with opium . The Era of the Eyes came next . It did not last long , but was very terrible . My room - for I had awakened to reality sufficiently to know I was in a ...
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... its proper face . The eyes vanished , as suddenly as Ezekiel's Wheel revolved , and then came the last stage of my sickness . This was the Era of the Orient , when all the pomps and pageantries of Eastern romance held 6 LAST GLEANINGS .
... its proper face . The eyes vanished , as suddenly as Ezekiel's Wheel revolved , and then came the last stage of my sickness . This was the Era of the Orient , when all the pomps and pageantries of Eastern romance held 6 LAST GLEANINGS .
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... stage of my delirium I awoke to life . I had been for many hours lying helpless on the strand of the Great Ocean on which one black barque rides for ever and for ever , with a captain at the prow whose name is Death . Once or twice the ...
... stage of my delirium I awoke to life . I had been for many hours lying helpless on the strand of the Great Ocean on which one black barque rides for ever and for ever , with a captain at the prow whose name is Death . Once or twice the ...
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Page 137 - Hear the sledges with the bells Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Page 2 - FORASMUCH as it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed, we therefore commit his body to the ground, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust...
Page 222 - Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Page 179 - I was very miserable. For Molly, who had nursed my brother Francis, and was immoderately fond of him, hated me because my mother took more notice of me than of Frank, and Frank hated me because my mother gave me now and then a bit of cake, when he had none...
Page 176 - Dining in a large party, one day, the modest divine was suddenly shocked by perceiving some part, as he conceived, of his own snowy shirt emerging from a part of his habiliments, which we shall suppose to have been his waistcoat. It was not that; but for decorum we shall so call it. The stray portion of his supposed...
Page 84 - These to their softened hearts should bear The thought of what has been, And speak of one who cannot share The gladness of the scene ; Whose part in all the pomp that fills The circuit of the summer hills, Is — that his grave is green ! And deeply would their hearts rejoice To hear again his living voice.
Page 177 - ... and so voluminously, that a very small portion of it, indeed, remained for the lady's own use; the natural consequence of which was, of course, that the lady appeared almost inextricably yoked to the learned theologian, and could not in any way effect her release, until after certain operations upon the vicar's dress, and a continued refunding and rolling out of snowy mazes...
Page 31 - If she be dead, then take my horse, My saddle and bridle also -, For I will into some far country, Where no man shall me know." " O stay, O stay, thou goodly youth, She standeth by thy side ; She is here alive, she is not dead, And ready to be thy bride.
Page 177 - REMINISCENCES laboriously stowing away into the capacious receptacles of his own habiliments — under the delusion that it was his own shirt — the snowy folds of a lady's gown, belonging to his next neighbour ; and so voluminously that a very small portion of it, indeed, remained for the lady's own use ; the natural consequence of which was, of course, that the lady appeared inextricably yoked to the learned theologian, and could not in any way effect her release, until after certain operations...
Page 184 - I'll let a Frenchman run me through the body before I'll run away.' ' That will do,' said the general, and Coleridge was turned into the ranks.