Sunny Days Abroad; Or, The Old World Seen with Young Eyes

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T. Whittaker, 1873 - 255 pages
 

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Page 233 - Sir Walter breathed his last, in the presence of all his children. It was a beautiful day — so warm, that every window was wide open — and so perfectly still, that the sound of all others most delicious to his ear, the gentle ripple of the Tweed over its pebbles, was distinctly audible as we knelt around the bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes.
Page 61 - And friends, dear friends, when it shall be That this low breath is gone from me, And round my bier ye come to weep, Let one most loving of you all, Say, " Not a tear must o'er her fall ! He giveth His beloved sleep.
Page 252 - Where the Bard-peasant first drew breath; A straw-thatched roof above his head, A straw-wrought couch beneath. And I have stood beside the pile, His monument — that tells to Heaven The homage of earth's proudest isle To that Bard-peasant given...
Page 102 - A palace lifting to eternal summer Its marble walls, from out a glossy bower Of coolest foliage musical with birds...
Page 212 - Rome ; and rejoicing that to them it was given, not only to believe in Christ, but also to suffer for his sake. This monument was erected by public subscription in the year of our Lord God 1841.
Page 121 - What has the world ever given to me ? (And I have known all that the world has to give — all ! ) Nothing but shadows, leaving a wound on the heart hard to heal — a dark discontent.
Page 149 - He was," says a French author, " one of our greatest poets ; the most brilliant, the most elegant, the most fertile, of our prose writers. There is not, in the literature of any country, either in verse or in prose, an author who has written on so many opposite kinds of subjects, and has so constantly displayed a superiority in all of them.
Page 229 - If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray.
Page 194 - Spent six consecutive weeks without stopping In one continuous round of shopping: Shopping alone and shopping together, At all hours of the day and in all sorts of weather; For all manner of things that a woman can put On the crown of her head or the sole of her foot, Or wrap round her shoulders or fit round her waist, Or that can be sewed on or pinned on or laced, Or tied on with a string, or stitched on with a bow, In front or behind, above or below; For bonnets, mantillas, capes, collars, and...

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