Tales of a TravellerJohn B. Alden, 1887 - 270 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
Abbey Abencerrage adventure ancient Annesley Hall appeared beautiful beheld Bianca bosom Bracebridge Buckthorne captain chamber companions delight Dolph door dress Dutch eyes face fair fancy father feelings fellow felt fond Fondi garden gazed Genoa gentleman ghost Granada Hall hand haunted head heard heart horse Inez Iron John Joe Murray Johnny Bower kind Lady Lillycraft laugh length lived looked Lord Byron lover mansion Master Simon melancholy mind morning mountains neighborhood never Newstead Newstead Abbey night once passed passion poetical poor Prossedi recollection robbers Robin Hood romantic round ruin scene Scott seemed seen servants Sleepy Hollow smile song spirit Squire stood story strange talk Terracina thing thought tion told Tom Walker took town trees turned uncle village walked whole wild window Wolfert Wolfert Acker young
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Página 63 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres. To hear the sea-maid's music.
Página 57 - I saw ,two beings in the hues of youth Standing upon a hill, a gentle hill, Green and of mild declivity, the last As 'twere the cape of a long ridge of such, Save that there was no sea to lave its base, But a most living landscape...
Página 63 - With a convulsion — then arose again, And with his teeth and quivering hands did tear What he had written, but he shed no tears. And he did calm himself, and fix his brow Into a kind of quiet : as he paused, The Lady of his love re-entered there ; She was serene and smiling then, and yet She knew she was by him beloved, — she knew, For quickly comes such knowledge...
Página 7 - Knowledge before — a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.
Página 23 - ... rising from her reeking hide; a wall-eyed horse, tired of the loneliness of the stable, was poking his spectral head out of a window, with the rain dripping on it from the eaves; an unhappy cur, chained to a doghouse hard by, uttered something every now and then, between a bark and a yelp; a drab of a...
Página 9 - To him the venerable Priest, Our frequent and familiar guest, Whose life and manners well could paint Alike the student and the saint ; Alas...
Página 30 - The morning wore away in forming these and similar surmises. As fast as I wove one system of belief, some movement of the unknown would completely overturn it, and throw all my thoughts again into confusion. Such are the solitary operations of a feverish mind. I was, as I have said, extremely nervous; and the continual meditation on the concerns of this invisible personage began to have its effect — I was getting a fit of the fidgets. Dinner-time came. I hoped the stout gentleman might dine In...
Página 207 - Tells how the drudging goblin sweat To earn his cream-bowl duly set. When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail...
Página 207 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And, crop-full, out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Página 63 - ... and gentle grasp He took her hand ; a moment o'er his face A tablet of unutterable thoughts Was traced, and then it faded, as it came ; He...