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Page iii - As tho' to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were all too little, and of one to me Little remains: but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
Page 5 - Homer ruled as his demesne : Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold : Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise— Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Page 18 - Love's nerveless body thro' all time? I must have slept, since now I wake. Prepare, You lovers, to know Love a thing of moods: Not like hard life, of laws. In Love's deep woods, I dreamt of loyal Life: - the offence is there!
Page 165 - Comfort thyself: what comfort is in me? I have lived my life, and that which I have done May He within himself make pure ! But thou, If thou shouldst never see my face again, Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For...
Page 11 - TIPPER'S ashes lay, Honest he was, ingenuous, blunt, and kind ; And dared do, what few dare do, speak his mind, PHILOSOPHY and HISTORY well he knew, Was versed in PHYSICK and in Surgery too, The best old STINGO he both brewed and sold, Nor did one knavish act to get his Gold. He played through Life a varied comic part, And knew immortal HUDIBRAS by heart. READER, in real truth, such was the Man, Be better, wiser, laugh more if you can.
Page 107 - began and raised a spirit first." This spirit, according to the depositions, was seen by two or three persons. Amylyon deposed that " he was at Saunders's where Sir Robert Cromer held up a stone, but he could not perceive anything in it ; but that George Dowsing caused to rise in a glass a little thing of the length of an inch or thereabout, but whether it was a spirit or a shadow he cannot tell, but the said George said it was a spirit.
Page 112 - Thomas Larke was rector of Bunwell at this time, having been presented to the living some twenty years before by William Grey of Merton, ancestor of Lord Walsingham. Did the rector connive at the proceedings ? Did he provide the holy water for the occasion ? I really am afraid he did ; for the craze of hunting for treasure had been endemic in that neighbourhood for several years past ; and fifteen years before this time another worthy, named John Yongeman, with other hill diggers, had dug up a hidden...
Page 98 - August, found it was gone ; and by-and-by 40s. thereof was proved to be in the hands of Robert Prymour, a noted receiver of stolen goods. It was clear enough that some one had watched the reverend gentleman, peradventure through the leper's window, one dark night as he went to trim the lamp over the altar, and could not keep himself from having one more look at his savings, just to see if they were there in their hiding-place. But when it came to such a hoard of treasure as Beatrix Cornwallis and...
Page 68 - OH his part had been certified of the king's will ; then at last he granted and sent to us four of his Monks, to wit Sir Lanzo and three associates, on whom at the outset we bestowed all the things which we had promised, and we confirmed the same by a writing which we sent to the Abbot and convent of Clugny, because they were unwilling to send their monks till this had been done. And thus it was granted to me and to my wife to bring the Cluniac Monks into our English land.
Page 101 - ... own domain. The demons were essentially earth spirits. The deeper you went below the outer crust of this world of ours, the nearer you got to the homes of the dark and grisly beings who spoil and poison and blight and blast — the angry ones who only curse and hate, and work us pain and woe. All that is of the earth earthy belongs to them. Wilt thou hide thy treasure in the earth ? Then it becomes the property of the foul fiend. Didst thou trust it to him to keep ? Then he will keep it. ' Never...