Outre-mer: A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea, Volumes 1-2Harper, 1835 - Europe |
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... hour of vespers . The re- ligious twilight of the place - the lamps that burned on the distant altar - the kneeling crowd - the tinkling bell -- and the chant of the evening service that rolled along the vaulted roof in broken and ...
... hour of vespers . The re- ligious twilight of the place - the lamps that burned on the distant altar - the kneeling crowd - the tinkling bell -- and the chant of the evening service that rolled along the vaulted roof in broken and ...
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... hours and the quarters as they chimed from the ancient tower of the abbey , while he paced to and fro along the gloomy cloister . At length the appointed hour approached ; and just before the convent - bell sent forth its sum- mons to ...
... hours and the quarters as they chimed from the ancient tower of the abbey , while he paced to and fro along the gloomy cloister . At length the appointed hour approached ; and just before the convent - bell sent forth its sum- mons to ...
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... the disastrous adventure of Friar Gui , this little marauding party had been prowling about the city until a late hour , without finding any thing to reward their labours . At length , however , they chanced to spy a hog 46 MARTIN FRANC ...
... the disastrous adventure of Friar Gui , this little marauding party had been prowling about the city until a late hour , without finding any thing to reward their labours . At length , however , they chanced to spy a hog 46 MARTIN FRANC ...
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... hour , when I heard the distant and solemn hymn of the Catholic burial- service , at first so faint and indistinct that it seemed an illusion . It rose mournfully on the hush of evening - died gradually away - then ceased . Then it rose ...
... hour , when I heard the distant and solemn hymn of the Catholic burial- service , at first so faint and indistinct that it seemed an illusion . It rose mournfully on the hush of evening - died gradually away - then ceased . Then it rose ...
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... hours by blowing kisses across the street with an old pair of bellows . One afternoon , as he was occupied in this way , a tall gentleman with whiskers stepped into the room , just as he had charged the bellows to the muzzle . He ...
... hours by blowing kisses across the street with an old pair of bellows . One afternoon , as he was occupied in this way , a tall gentleman with whiskers stepped into the room , just as he had charged the bellows to the muzzle . He ...
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Page 230 - Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes: With every thing that pretty is, My lady sweet, arise: Arise, arise.
Page 207 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Page 229 - midst its dreary dells, Whose walls more awful nod By thy religious gleams. Or if chill blustering winds, or driving rain, Prevent my willing feet, be mine the hut, That from the mountain's side, Views wilds, and swelling floods, And hamlets brown, and dim-discover'd spires, And hears their simple bell, and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil.
Page 82 - Our lives are rivers, gliding free To that unfathomed, boundless sea, The silent grave ! Thither all earthly pomp and boast Roll, to be swallowed up and lost In one dark wave. Thither the mighty torrents stray, Thither the brook pursues its way, And tinkling rill. There all are equal. Side by side The poor man and the son of pride Lie calm and still.
Page 218 - Now therein of all sciences (I speak still of human, and according to the humane conceits) is our poet the monarch. For he doth not only show the way, but giveth so sweet a prospect into the way, as will entice any man to enter into it.
Page 61 - Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze, And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore.
Page 31 - Neath cloistered boughs, each floral bell that swingeth And tolls its perfume on the passing air, Makes Sabbath in the fields, and ever ringeth A call to prayer. Not to the domes where crumbling arch and column Attest the feebleness of mortal hand, But to that fane, most catholic and solemn, Which God hath planned; To that cathedral, boundless as our wonder, Whose quenchless lamps the sun and moon supply ; Its choir the wings and waves, its organ thunder, Its dome the sky.
Page 242 - tis too just a cause, Let this thought quicken thee : Minds that are great and free, "Should not on fortune pause ; Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
Page 99 - ... the life. They did so, and found his face half eaten, and his midriff and backbone full of serpents; and so he stands pictured among his armed ancestors. So does the fairest beauty change ; and it will be as bad with you and me ; and then what servants shall we have to wait upon us in the grave? what friends to visit us? what officious people to cleanse away the moist and unwholesome cloud reflected upon our faces from the sides of the weeping vaults, which are the longest weepers for our funeral?
Page 231 - Crown'd with her pail the tripping milkmaid sings ; The whistling ploughman stalks afield ; and, hark ! Down the rough slope the ponderous waggon rings...