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William Allingham: A Diary William Allingham,Helen Paterson Allingham,Dollie Radford Snippet view - 1985 |
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Aldworth Allingham asked August Ballyshannon beautiful Brockenhurst Browning called Captain Speedy Carlyle Carlyle's carriage Cheyne Row Church colour comes cottage D. G. Rossetti Dante Gabriel Rossetti daughter December diary dine dinner drawing-room dreams Emerson English Farringford Father feel flowers Friday friendly friends garden George Eliot Goethe green Hallam hand Haslemere heard Helen Hill Hindhead Hyde Park Ireland Irish John Linnell July June Keyhaven Killybegs Lady Lecky Leigh Hunt letter live London looking Lord Lymington Mary Miss Monday Morris never Night Songs November October Park Patmore picture pleasant poem poet poetry portrait praise road Rossetti Saturday says September Shelley speaks spoke steamer street Sunday talk Tennyson Thackeray things thought Thursday to-day told Tom Taylor took trees Tuesday walk Wednesday wife William Allingham window Witley writing Yarmouth
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Page 270 - Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown: Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien corn ; The same that oft-times hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.
Page 297 - And found'st a bright lady, surpassingly fair; And didst bring her home with thee in love and in charity, To shield her and shelter her from the damp air.
Page 305 - It were good therefore that men in their innovations would follow the example of time itself, which indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly and by degrees scarce to be perceived...
Page 188 - Fear no more the frown o' the great, Thou art past the tyrant's stroke; Care no more to clothe, and eat; To thee the reed is as the oak: The sceptre, learning, physic, must All follow this, and come to dust.
Page 306 - I'm whistling or lilting what you sung, Your smile is always in my heart, your name beside my tongue; But...
Page 245 - The future hides in it Gladness and sorrow ; We press still thorow, Nought that abides in it Daunting us, — onward. And solemn before us, Veiled, the dark Portal; Goal of all mortal : — Stars silent rest o'er us, Graves under us silent! While earnest thou gazest, Comes boding of terror, Comes phantasm and error; Perplexes the bravest With doubt and misgiving. But heard are the Voices, Heard are...
Page 246 - While earnest thou gazest, Comes boding of terror, Comes phantasm and error; Perplexes the bravest With doubt and misgiving. But heard are the Voices, Heard are the Sages, The Worlds and the Ages: " Choose well ; your choice is Brief, and yet endless. " Here eyes do regard you, In Eternity's stillness ; Here is all fulness, Ye brave, to reward you ; Work, and despair not.
Page 78 - Got down to Chelsea by half-past eight to DGR's. Breakfasted in a small lofty room on first floor with window looking on the garden. Fanny in white. Then we went into the garden and lay on the grass, eating strawberries and looking at the peacock. F. went to look at the 'chicking', her plural of chicken.
Page 210 - Of his college life he told : " I studied the evidences of Christianity for several years, with the greatest desire to be convinced, but in vain. I read Gibbon, and then first clearly saw that Christianity was not true.
Page 344 - The Music Master, /a Love Story, / and / Two Series of Day and Night Songs.