Hospital SketchesHoughton Mifflin, 1916 - 90 pages |
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AEGINASSOS ALFRED TENNYSON altar Asia Minor Nov awful Eagre bed or wheel beneath BRAMANTE bridge Cardinal Schalchi-Visconti castle cathedral Château Beaumesnil Christ Christiana passing church clouds disadvantage who lived door Duomo eyes forest France Fredigende Frédigonde gabled GEORGE ELIOT glow gray green happy heaven HOSPITAL SKETCHES isles of Greece Italy and Greece Jacob's ladder JAMES RUSSELL Lowell JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL La Dame Blanche lady lake light look medieval Minster monasteries morning night pain Parvis perhaps prayers purple plumy tops quiet RANCONEZZO read about Christiana River Merle ROBERT ROBERT BROWNING Rocher St ROCHER-ST.-POL roof terrace rose rushing spring-tide sail Santa Prassede saw the Floss seemed shadows shining Sketches and Studies solemn soul stag steep Studies in Italy sunlight sunset Swan SYMONDS Temple thunder towers town tree UPTHORPE-CUM-REGIS THE RIVER Villa W. B. YEATS walk walls water-rats while Maggie wheel chair wide view winding window
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Page 7 - There has not been a lawsuit in the parish since he has lived among them ; if any dispute arises, they apply themselves to him for the decision ; if they do not acquiesce in his judgment, which I think never happened above once or twice at most, they appeal to me. At his first settling with me, I made him a present of all the good sermons which have been printed in English, and only begged of him, that every Sunday he would pronounce one of them in the pulpit. Accordingly, he has digested them into...
Page 88 - The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.
Page 20 - FRATER AVE ATQUE VALE.' Row us out from Desenzano, to your Sirmione row ! So they row'd, and there we landed — 'O venusta Sirmio!' There to me thro' all the groves of olive in the summer glow, There beneath the Roman ruin where the purple flowers grow, Came that
Page 68 - OFT have I seen at some cathedral door A laborer, pausing in the dust and heat, Lay down his burden, and with reverent feet Enter, and cross himself, and on the floor Kneel to repeat his paternoster o'er ; Far off the noises of the world retreat ; The loud vociferations of the street Become an tmdistinjruishable roar.
Page 52 - With tooth and nail to save my niche, ye know: — Old Gandolf cozened me, despite my care; Shrewd was that snatch from out the corner South He graced his carrion with, God curse the same! Yet still my niche is not so cramped but thence One sees the pulpit o...
Page 3 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Page 88 - As one that for a weary space has lain Lull'd by the song of Circe and her wine In gardens near the pale of Proserpine, Where the JEx&n isle forgets the main, And only the low lutes of love complain, And only shadows of wan lovers pine, — As such an one were glad to know the brine Salt on his lips, and the large air again...
Page 68 - How strange the sculptures that adorn these towers! This crowd of statues, in whose folded sleeves Birds build their nests ; while canopied with leaves Parvis and portal bloom like trellised bowers, And the vast minster seems a cross of flowers...