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Page 45 - Ye who believe in affection that hopes, and endures, and is patient, Ye who believe in the beauty and strength of woman's devotion, List to the mournful tradition still sung by the pines of the forest; List to a talc of love in Acadie, home of the happy.
Page 297 - Here she was wont to go, and here, and here! Just where those daisies, pinks, and violets grow : The world may find the spring by following her; ‘ For other print her airy steps ne'er left: And where she went, the flowers took thickest root As she had sowed them with her odorous foot.
Page 263 - Have you felt the wool o' the beaver? Or swan's down ever? Or have smelt o' the bud o' the briar Or the nard I' the fire? Or have tasted the bag o' the bee? 0 so white, 0 so soft, 0 so sweet is
Page 417 - Laertes: .‘ This is mere madness: And thu.s awhile the fit will work on him; Anon, as patient a¿s the female dove, When that her golden couplets are disclosed, His silence will sit drooping.”
Page 47 - pored on the old print Of titled words; and still my spaniel slept; Whilst I wasted lamp oil, ‘bated my flesh, Shrunk up my veins; and still my spaniel slept. And still I held converse with Zabarell, Aquinas, Scotus, and the musty saw Of antique Donate; still my spaniel slept. Still on went I: first, an
Page 307 - ‘No, faith, Ben,' says he, ‘not I; but I have been considering a great while what should be the fittest gift for me to bestow upon my godchild, and I have resolved at last.' ‘I pray thee, what?',
Page 47 - “I was a scholar: seven useful springs Did I deflower in quotations Of crossed opinions ‘bout the soul of man. The more I learnt the more I learnt to doubt: Knowledge and wit, faith's foes, turn faith about.
Page 191 - seson on a day, In Southwerk at the Tabard as I lay Redy to wenden on my pilgrimage To Caunterbury with ful devout corage, At night was come
Page 295 - Song. That Women are but Men's Shadows. Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly it, it will pursue; So court a mistress, she denies you, Let her alone, she will
Page 5 - v. 6: “A lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities.” The classical writers exerted a strong and direct influence on Dante's thought and style. Homer, Plato, Aristotle were known to him only through Latin translations or quotations in other writers. His acquaintance with Latin literature, however, considering the difficulty