A Holiday on the Road: An Artist's Wanderings in Kent, Sussex, and Surrey |
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As Emerson finely says : The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groined the aisles of Christian Rome Wrought in a sad sincerity : Himself from God he could not free , He builded better than he knew , The conscious stone to beauty grew .
As Emerson finely says : The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groined the aisles of Christian Rome Wrought in a sad sincerity : Himself from God he could not free , He builded better than he knew , The conscious stone to beauty grew .
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ancient appeared artist asked beautiful better building built called castle centuries chance charming church coming cottage course curious delightful discovered downs driving England English excellent existence fact feeling give grand green grey hand hill horses interest iron journey keep kind land leaving less live London look manner matter means miles mind moat natural never noticed observed old-fashioned once original ourselves painted passed past perhaps picture picturesque pleasant pleasing poor portion possess possibly present quaint railway rare remark rest road round ruins rural scene scenery seems seen side standing stone strange structure sure Sussex things thought told took tower town turned village walls wandering whole wooded
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Página 160 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Página 362 - Not to covet nor desire other men's goods ; but to learn and labour truly to get mine own living, and to do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me.
Página 340 - We may live without poetry, music, and art ; We may live without conscience, and live without heart ; We may live without friends ; we may live without books ; But civilized man cannot live without cooks. He may live without books, — what is knowledge but grieving ? He may live without hope, — what is hope but deceiving ? He may live without love, — what is passion but pining ? But where is the man that can live without dining ? XX.
Página 120 - The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groined the aisles of Christian Rome Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He buildcd better than he knew; — The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Página 159 - Forward, Forward,' lost within a growing gloom; Lost, or only heard in silence from the silence of a tomb. Half the marvels of my morning, triumphs over time and space, Staled by frequence, shrunk by usage into commonest commonplace! 'Forward' rang the voices then, and of the many mine was one. Let us hush this cry of 'Forward' till ten thousand years have gone.
Página 78 - There is no great and no small To the Soul that maketh all: And where it cometh, all things are; And it cometh everywhere.
Página 391 - I do distrust the poet who discerns No character or glory in his times, And trundles back his soul five hundred years, Past moat and drawbridge, into a castle-court, To sing — oh not of lizard or of toad Alive i...
Página 105 - Scenes must be beautiful, which daily viewed Please daily, and whose novelty survives Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years.
Página 333 - A Knight of Cales, A Gentleman of Wales, And a Laird of the North Countree ; A Yeoman of Kent, With his yearly rent. Will buy them out all three...
Página 218 - Sir Richard spoke and he laugh'd, and we roar'da hurrah, and so The little "Revenge" ran on sheer into the heart of the foe, With her hundred fighters on deck, and her ninety sick below ; For half of their fleet to the right and half to the left...
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| Título | A Holiday on the Road: An Artist's Wanderings in Kent, Sussex, and Surrey |
| Autor | James John Hissey |
| Editor | Richard Bentley & Son, 1887 |
| Procedencia del original | Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York |
| Digitalizado | 22 Mar 2007 |
| ISBN | 7800670724, 9787800670725 |
| Largo | 408 páginas |
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