The Collected Works of Dante Gabriel RossettiEllis and Scrutton, 1886 - Blind tooled bindings |
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... thought ; for the Florentine , though familiar to him as a name , and in some sense as a pervading penetrative influence , from earliest childhood , was not really assimilated until boy- hood was practically past . Bailey's Festus was ...
... thought ; for the Florentine , though familiar to him as a name , and in some sense as a pervading penetrative influence , from earliest childhood , was not really assimilated until boy- hood was practically past . Bailey's Festus was ...
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... thought and work , and little or no curiosity about Oriental - such as Indian , Persian , or Arabic - poetry . Any writing about devils , spectres , or the supernatural generally , whether in poetry or in prose , had always a ...
... thought and work , and little or no curiosity about Oriental - such as Indian , Persian , or Arabic - poetry . Any writing about devils , spectres , or the supernatural generally , whether in poetry or in prose , had always a ...
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... must presumably have been correct ; otherwise I should have thought that his twentieth year , or even his twenty - first , would be nearer the mark . or consummate productions , marking the high level of his PREFACE xxix.
... must presumably have been correct ; otherwise I should have thought that his twentieth year , or even his twenty - first , would be nearer the mark . or consummate productions , marking the high level of his PREFACE xxix.
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... thought and consideration , which would culminate in a clear impulse or ( as we say ) an inspiration . In the execution he was always heedful and reflective from the first , and he spared no after - pains in clarifying and perfecting ...
... thought and consideration , which would culminate in a clear impulse or ( as we say ) an inspiration . In the execution he was always heedful and reflective from the first , and he spared no after - pains in clarifying and perfecting ...
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... thought that he had mastered the means of embodying poetical concep- tions in the verbal and rhythmical vehicle more thoroughly than in form and design , perhaps more thoroughly than in colour . I may take this opportunity of observing ...
... thought that he had mastered the means of embodying poetical concep- tions in the verbal and rhythmical vehicle more thoroughly than in form and design , perhaps more thoroughly than in colour . I may take this opportunity of observing ...
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Page 232 - The sun was gone now ; the curled moon Was like a little feather Fluttering far down the gulf ; and now She spoke through the still weather. Her voice was like the voice the stars Had when they sang together.
Page 218 - Hell, athirst alway ? I do not see them here ; but after death God knows I know the faces I shall see, Each one a murdered self, with low last breath. " I am thyself, — what hast thou done to me ? '
Page 466 - Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house ; and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.
Page 231 - And still she bowed herself and stooped Out of the circling charm ; Until her bosom must have made The bar she leaned on warm, And the lilies lay as if asleep Along her bended arm.
Page 66 - Mother, Mary Mother, Why laughs she thus, between Hell and Heaven ?) "The wind is loud, but I hear him cry, Sister Helen, That Keith of Ewern's like to die.' 'And he and thou, and thou and I, Little brother.' (O Mother, Mary Mother, And they and we, between Hell and Heaven!) Three days ago, on his marriage-morn, Sister Helen, He sickened, and lies since then forlorn.
Page 225 - WHEN vain desire at last and vain regret Go hand in hand to death, and all is vain, What shall assuage the unforgotten pain And teach the unforgetful to forget ? Shall Peace be still a sunk stream long unmet, — Or may the soul at once in a green plain Stoop through the spray of some sweet life-fountain And cull the dew-drenched flowering amulet ? Ah...
Page 467 - Next he is seen relating his trials and mercies to the new daughters who were born to him — no women so fair in the land.
Page 211 - Man's measured path is all gone o'er; Up all his years, steeply, with strain and sigh, Man clomb until he touched the truth; and I, Even I, am he whom it was destined for.
Page 238 - This is her picture as she was : It seems a thing to wonder on, As though mine image in the glass Should tarry when myself am gone. I gaze until she seems to stir, — Until mine eyes almost aver That now, even now, the sweet lips part To breathe the words of the sweet heart : — And yet the earth is over her.
Page 231 - It lies in heaven, across the flood Of ether, as a bridge. Beneath, the tides of day and night With flame and darkness ridge The void, as low as where this earth Spins like a fretful midge.