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Page 2 - I wish her store Of worth may leave her poor Of wishes ; and I wish no more. Now, if Time knows That Her, whose radiant brows Weave them a garland of my vows; Her...
Page viii - ... the interest aimed at is of an ideal or subjective nature, and frankly imaginative, verisimilitude in the sequence of events has been subordinated to the said aim.
Page 13 - Armada - select people, common and debased, whose interests and hopes had been as wide asunder as the poles, but who had rolled each other to oneness on that restless seabed. There could almost be felt the brush of their huge composite ghost as it ran a shapeless figure over the isle, shrieking for some good god who would disunite it again.
Page 13 - ... oneness on that restless sea-bed. There could almost be felt the brush of their huge composite ghost as it ran a shapeless figure over the isle, shrieking for some good god who would disunite it again. • The twain wandered a long way that night amid these influences — so far as to the old Hope Church-yard, which lay in a ravine formed by a landslip ages ago. The church had slipped down with the rest of the cliff, and had long been a ruin. It seemed to say that in this last local stronghold...