Old-world Idylls and Other VersesKegan Paul, Trench, 1884 - 252 páginas "This selection is based upon one published at New York in 1880. With a few exceptions, the pieces are chosen from Vignettes in rhyme, 1873, and Proverbs in porcelain, 1877. Both volumes are out of print"--Page facing half-title |
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... Beauty gleams From coffee - coloured laces , So peeped from its old - fashioned dreams The fresher modern traces ; For idle mallet , hoop , and ball Upon the lawn were lying ; A magazine , a tumbled shawl , Round which the swifts were ...
... Beauty gleams From coffee - coloured laces , So peeped from its old - fashioned dreams The fresher modern traces ; For idle mallet , hoop , and ball Upon the lawn were lying ; A magazine , a tumbled shawl , Round which the swifts were ...
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... Beauty gleams From coffee - coloured laces , - So peeped from its old - fashioned dreams The fresher modern traces ; For idle mallet , hoop , and ball Upon the lawn were lying ; A magazine , a tumbled shawl , Round which the swifts were ...
... Beauty gleams From coffee - coloured laces , - So peeped from its old - fashioned dreams The fresher modern traces ; For idle mallet , hoop , and ball Upon the lawn were lying ; A magazine , a tumbled shawl , Round which the swifts were ...
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... Beauty's quarrel ; 29 But now his " fervent youth " had flown Where lost things go ; and he was grown As staid and slow - paced as his own Old hunter , Sorrel . Yet still he loved the chase , and held That no composer's score excelled ...
... Beauty's quarrel ; 29 But now his " fervent youth " had flown Where lost things go ; and he was grown As staid and slow - paced as his own Old hunter , Sorrel . Yet still he loved the chase , and held That no composer's score excelled ...
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... beauty ; And La Vallière's yeux veloutés Followed these ; And you liked it , when he said it ( On his knees ) , And you kept it , and you read it , " Belle Marquise ! ” III . Yet with us your toilet graces Fail to please , And the last ...
... beauty ; And La Vallière's yeux veloutés Followed these ; And you liked it , when he said it ( On his knees ) , And you kept it , and you read it , " Belle Marquise ! ” III . Yet with us your toilet graces Fail to please , And the last ...
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... beauty , falsely named the Devil's , Young - lipped , unlessoned , joyous , and clear - eyed ; Flung down his palette like a weary man , And sauntered slowly through the Rue Sainte - Anne . Wherefore , we know not ; but , at times , far ...
... beauty , falsely named the Devil's , Young - lipped , unlessoned , joyous , and clear - eyed ; Flung down his palette like a weary man , And sauntered slowly through the Rue Sainte - Anne . Wherefore , we know not ; but , at times , far ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Autonoë BABETTE BALLADE BARON BEAU BROCADE beauty Belle Marquise bird blue Boucher brow Caliph CLAUDE TILLIER comes Cupid's Alley Cynics dance dear DENISE DOLLY Dorothy dream e'en eyes face fair fawn that seeks feet flowers FRANÇOIS BOUCHER FRANK grace gray green grew hair hand heart I-no intended an Ode king more terrible kissed me to-day knew L'ÉTOILE laughing LAWRENCE LE DÉPIT AMOUREUX lips London stones look Love Love's M'sieu Madam Maid Muse Naught but myrtle NELLIE NINETTE NINON o'er once pale pipe and flute Plato Poets poor present for Rose PRINCESS Procris Pure song rhyme RONDEAU Rosina scarce School of Coquettes seeks its mother sigh sing smile song stirred strange stray fawn sweet Sybaris teacup-times THEOCRITUS thing thou thought thrush turned Twas twice-told tales Twill twixt VIEUXBOIS VILLANELLE watched weary word yore
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Página 235 - There is place and enough for the pains of prose ; But whenever the May-blood stirs and glows, And the young year draws to the
Página 229 - CHICKEN-SKIN, delicate, white, Painted by Carlo Vanloo, Loves in a riot of light, Roses and vaporous blue; Hark to the dainty frou-frou! Picture above, if you can, Eyes that could melt as the dew, — This was the Pompadour's fan ! See how they rise at the sight, Thronging the...
Página 210 - Love comes back to his vacant dwelling — The old, old Love that we knew of yore ! We see him stand by the open door, With his great eyes sad, and his bosom swelling. " He makes as though in our arms repelling He fain would lie, as he lay before ; Love comes back to his vacant dwelling...
Página 102 - My book in turn avers (No author's name is stated) That sometimes those Philosophers Are sadly mis-translated." " But hear, — the next's in stronger style : The Cynic School asserted That two red lips which part and smile May not be controverted ! " She smiled once more — "My book, I find, Observes some modern doctors Would make the Cynics out a .kind Of album-verse concoctors." Then I— "Why not? ' Ephesian law, No less than time's tradition, Enjoined fair speech on all who saw Diana's apparition.
Página 154 - HE had played for his lordship's levee, He had played for her ladyship's whim, Till the poor little head was heavy, And the poor little brain would swim. And the face grew peaked and eerie, And the large eyes strange and bright, And they said — too late — "He is weary I He shall rest for, at least, To-night...
Página 233 - Musician, the piece that you played Is nought but a copy of Chopin or Spohr; That the ballad you sing is but merely "conveyed" From the stock of the Arnes and the Purcells of yore; That there's nothing, in short, in the words or the score That is not as out-worn as the "Wandering Jew," Make answer— Beethoven could scarcely do more— That the man who plants cabbages imitates, too! If they tell you, Sir Artist, your light and your shade Are simply adapted from other men's lore; That— plainly to...
Página 231 - His carackes were christened of dames To the kirtles whereof he would tack us ; With his saints and his gilded stern-frames, He had thought like an egg-shell to crack us. Now Howard may get to his Flaccus, And Drake to his Devon again, And Hawkins bowl rubbers to Bacchus, — For where are the galleons of Spain i
Página 101 - Then read him — do ; And I'll read mine in answer." I read. " My Plato (Plato, too, — That wisdom thus should harden !) Declares ' blue eyes look doubly blue Beneath a Dolly Varden.' " She smiled. " My book in turn avers (No author's name is stated) That sometimes those Philosophers Are sadly mis-translated.
Página 203 - All passes. ART alone Enduring stays to us ; The Bust outlasts the throne, — The Coin, Tiberius ; Even the gods must go ; Only the lofty Rhyme Not countless years o'erthro\v,Not long array of time.
Página 79 - hold the boards," and still are played, "With new effects and dresses." Small, lonely " three-pair-backs " behold, To-day, Alcestis dying; To-day, in farthest Polar cold, Ulysses' bones are lying ; Still in one's morning " Times " one reads How fell an Indian Hector ; Still clubs discuss Achilles...