Tricotrin: The Story of a Waif and StrayJ.B. Lippincott, 1906 - 695 páginas |
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Página 61 - This is the prettiest low-born lass, that ever Ran on the green-sward : nothing she does, or seems, But smacks of something greater than herself; Too noble for this place.
Página 79 - Ever honoured, ever sung, Stained with blood of lusty grapes, In a thousand lusty shapes, Dance upon the mazer's ' brim, In the crimson liquor swim ; From thy plenteous hand divine, Let a river run with wine. God of youth, let this day here Enter neither care nor fear...
Página 371 - I look down into all that wasp-nest or bee-hive," have we heard him say, "and witness their wax-laying and honeymaking, and poison-brewing, and choking by sulphur. From the Palace esplanade, where music plays while Serene Highness is pleased to eat his victuals, down...
Página 6 - ... through the foliage above in manifold gleams and glories, that touched the turning leaves bright red as fire, and fell on his own head when he tossed it up to fling a word to Mistigri, or to catch the last summer-song of a blackbird. It was a beautiful Homeric head: bold, kingly, careless, noble, with the royalty of the lion in its gallant poise, and the challenge of the eagle in its upward gesture; — the head which an artist would have given to his Hector, or his Phoebus, or his God Lyaeus.
Página 21 - Nature ! from thee are all things ; in thee they subsist ; to thee they return. Could one say, Thou dearly beloved city of Cecrops? and wilt thou not say, Thou dearly beloved city of God ?' " "Amen !" said Kavanagh. "And, to follow your quotation with another, ' The gale that blows from God we must endure, toiling but not repining.
Página 18 - ... all had words from him, which left them " (cows and bullocks and all) "brighter, braver, happier than they had been before those kindly eyes, shining so lustrous in the sun, had fallen upon them." No wonder that the thoughts of this marvellous man, when they ranged over his own
Página 22 - Trlcotnn, a man who possessed " the wisdom of a Boethius — to laugh at life with the glorious mirth of Aristophanes . . . and to love all pleasure with the Burgundian jests (sic) of a Piron." " His life," we are told, — " Was a poem — often an ironic, often an erotic, often a sublime one — a love-ode one day, a rhymed satire the next ; now light as Suckling's verse, now bitter as Juvenal's, oftenest a Bacchic chant or a Hudibrastic piece of mockery, but not seldom a noble Homeric epic.
Página 657 - appy until people mistake 'im for a Lunnoner. ^»" England expects every man to do his duty ! " Ah, can you not see that if every man did his duty, taking heed of his own thoughts and deeds, the world would be free and at peace? It is easier to rise in the heat of strife with drawn revolver than to keep watch and ward over your own passions; but do not cheat yourself into the belief that it is nobler — higher. What is the reproach cast on all revolutionists ? that they have nothing to lose. Aye,...
Página 22 - ... the unity of genius." Tricotrin must have travelled greatly in forty years ; for — " The people who loved him stretched from Danube to Guadalquiver, from Liffey to Tiber, from Euphrates to the Amazon ; while in France, the land of his adoption, if not of his birth, the hand which should have dared to touch him would have been bolder than the boldest of the iron hands which have seized and swayed her sceptre.
Página 152 - Contend constantly against evil, strive in every way to diminish the power of evil; strive to keep pure in body and mind and so prevent the entrance of evil spirits who are always trying to gain possession of men. Cultivate the soil, drain marshes, destroy dangerous creatures. He who sows the ground with diligence acquires more religious merit than he could gain by a thousand prayers in idleness. Diligence in thy occupation is the greatest good work. To sew patch on patch is better than begging rich...