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Page 195 - And haply the QueenMoon is on her throne, Clusterd around by all her starry Fays; But here there is no light, Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways.'
Page 57 - taughte; Out of the gospel he tho wordes caughte; And this figure he added eek therto, That, if gold ruste, what shal yren do? For if a preest be foul, on whom we truste, No wonder is a lewed man to ruste; And shame It is, if a preest take keep, A shitten shepherde and a clene sheep,
Page 205 - The Voyage of Bran Son of Febal to the Land of the Living. An Old Irish Saga now first edited, with Translation, Notes, and Glossary, by KUNO MEYER, with an Essay upon the Irish Vision of the Happy Otherworid and the Celtic Doctrine of Rebirth, by ALFRED NUTT. Section I, The Happy Otherworld, London
Page 135 - made him sour.' At last I heard a voice upon the slope Cry to the summit, • Is there any hope?' To which an answer peal¿d from that high land, But in a tongue no man could understand; And on the glimmering limit far withdrawn God made
Page 131 - lockes, long growen, and unbound, Disordred hong about his shoulders round, And hid his face, through which his hollow eyne Lookt deadly dull, and stared as astound; His rawbone cheekes through penurie and pine Were shronke into his jawes, as he did never dyne. His garment nought but many ragged
Page 221 - of things of any importance. This sort of people have a certain preeminence, and more estimation than labourers and the common sort of artificers, and these commonly live wealthily, keep good houses, and travel to get riches. They are also for the most part farmers to gentlemen (in old time called Pagani, et
Page 168 - na. and I looked for Jamie back; But hard blew the winds¿ and his ship was a wrack: His ship it was a wrack ! Why didna Jamie dee? Or wherefore am I spared to cry out, Woe is me! My father urged sair, my mother didna speak. But she looked in my f¿ace till my heart was like to break;
Page 196 - adieu I thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hillside; and now ‘tis buried deep In the next valleyglades.'
Page 194 - 0, for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And
Page 136 - There seem'd no room for sense of wrong. And all so variously wrought, I marvell'd how the mind was brought To anchor by one gloomy thought; And wherefore rather I made choice To commune with that barren voice, Than him that said ‘ Rejoice ! Rejoice I'”