John Stuart Blackie: A Biography, כרך 2

כריכה קדמית
W. Blackwood, 1895
 

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עמוד 243 - 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?
עמוד 193 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, Till there be no room, and ye be made to dwell alone in the midst of the land...
עמוד 243 - Ah Ben ! Say how or .when Shall we, thy guests, Meet at those lyric feasts, Made at the Sun, The Dog, the Triple Tun ; Where we such clusters had, As made us nobly wild, not mad? And yet each verse of thine Out-did the meat, out-did the frolic wine.
עמוד 308 - Creeds and confessions? High Church or the Low? I cannot say ; but you would vastly please us If with some pointed Scripture you could show To which of these belonged the Saviour Jesus. I think to all or none : not curious creeds Or ordered forms of churchly rule he taught, But soul of love that blossomed into deeds With human good and human blessing fraught. On me nor priest, nor presbyter, nor pope, Bishop...
עמוד 188 - I've seen Coming pure linen, And, like the linen, the souls were clean Of them that wore it. See that thou kindly use them, O man ! To whom God giveth Stewardship over them, in thy short span, Not for thy pleasure ! Woe be to them who choose for a clan Four-footed people...
עמוד 27 - Of geese or vagrant -banded cranes, or the long- necked race of swans, Where far the Asian lowland spreads, and by Cayster's flow, Freely on joyful pinions sail, and wander to and fro, And with their clanging wings loud rings the mead where they alight ; Thus swarmed the Greeks from ship and tent, to find the fateful fight Far o'er Scamander's plain : and earth rebellowed to the sound, A- the mail clad men and the four-hoofed horse tramped o'er the hollow ground, Till on the broad grass mead the}'...
עמוד 210 - ... in the only university of Ireland is, no doubt, a circumstance still more discreditable; but, considering the enthusiastic interest which the Scotch have ever taken in the old monuments of their national existence, and the abundance of their academical apparatus for almost all purposes, even that does not surprise us so much as the absence of any Gaelic endowment among their four universities. Surely the numberless Highland and Celtic clubs, of whose proceedings for the improvement of black cattle,...
עמוד 188 - twixt earth and sky, A wondrous sight to behold ! Pleasant it is to be here With friends in company, But I would fly to the Isle of Skye To-morrow, if I were free ! Dunedin is queenly and fair — None feels it more than I ; But, in the prime of the summer time, Give me the Isle of Skye ! A HIGHLAND MARCHING SONG.
עמוד 10 - The poet came down-stairs from a hot bath which he had just been taking, quite in an easy unaffected style; a certain slow heaviness of motion belongs essentially to his character, and contrasts strikingly with the alert quickness and sinew energy of Kingsley; head Jovian, eye dark, pale face, black flowing locks, like a Spanish ship-captain or a captain of Italian brigands, — something not at all common and not the least English.
עמוד 153 - ... telescope she keeps For lofty observation, Through which she finely peeps At all the starry nation. But she's more than wise, Better far than clever, From whose heart arise Thoughts of kindness ever ; As the sun's bright ray Every flower is kissing, All that comes her way Takes from her a blessing. Where a widow weeps, She with her is weeping; Where a sorrow sleeps, She doth watch it sleeping ; Where the sky is bright, With one sole taint of sadness, Let her heave in sight, And all is turned...

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