The public school speaker and reader, ed. by J.E. CarpenterJoseph Edwards Carpenter 1869 |
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Page 107
... the foolish words , Nature of Things , upon it casts its deadening folds between me and their dazzling strangeness . Flowers open , and stars rise , and it seems to me they could have done no less . The mystery of A Sea Boat . 107.
... the foolish words , Nature of Things , upon it casts its deadening folds between me and their dazzling strangeness . Flowers open , and stars rise , and it seems to me they could have done no less . The mystery of A Sea Boat . 107.
Page 109
... stars than in a boat " no bigger than the crescent moon ; " and to find Tennyson— although his boating , in an ordinary way , has a very marshy and punt - like character - at last , in his highest inspiration , enter in where the wind ...
... stars than in a boat " no bigger than the crescent moon ; " and to find Tennyson— although his boating , in an ordinary way , has a very marshy and punt - like character - at last , in his highest inspiration , enter in where the wind ...
Page 111
... stars . Had he but concealed these badges of honour from the enemy , England , perhaps , would not have had cause to receive with sorrow the news of the battle of Trafalgar . The cockpit was crowded with wounded and dying men , over ...
... stars . Had he but concealed these badges of honour from the enemy , England , perhaps , would not have had cause to receive with sorrow the news of the battle of Trafalgar . The cockpit was crowded with wounded and dying men , over ...
Page 117
... star - as , in one part of the orbit , she rides foremost in the procession of night ; in the other , ushers in and anticipates the dawn - is a planetary world ; which , with those others that so won- derfully vary their mystic dance ...
... star - as , in one part of the orbit , she rides foremost in the procession of night ; in the other , ushers in and anticipates the dawn - is a planetary world ; which , with those others that so won- derfully vary their mystic dance ...
Page 118
... star , though in ap- pearance no bigger than the diamond that glitters upon a lady's ring , is really a vast globe , like the sun in size and in glory ; no less spa- cious , no less luminous , than the radiant source of day . So that ...
... star , though in ap- pearance no bigger than the diamond that glitters upon a lady's ring , is really a vast globe , like the sun in size and in glory ; no less spa- cious , no less luminous , than the radiant source of day . So that ...
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