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...nia State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any w... ....................................................60 CHRISTMAS AT SEA .................................................................................... ...times the victim showed fight, sometimes prevailed; more of- ten, without doubt, he fell. But whatever body was found, the bearers indifferently took ... ...f his singing, other the thought of his heart; For secret desire of glory vexed him, dwelling apart. Lazy and crafty he was, and loved to lie in the s... ... he paused and hearkened, and heard * “Hook” of mother-of-pearl. Bright-hook fishing, and that with the spear, appear to be the favourite native metho... ...ow in thin perennial rain. Dark in the staring noon, dark was Rua’s ravine, Damp and cold was the air, and the face of the cliffs was green. Here, in ... ...r, Rua sat and was cold. “V alley of mid-day shadows, valley of silent falls, Rua sang, and his voice went hollow about the walls, “V alley of shadow ... ...as Rua sat in the valley of silent falls, He heard a calling of doves from high on the cliffy walls. Fire had fashioned of yore, and time had broken, ... ...ars.” And Rua straightened his back. “O Vais, a scheme for a scheme!” Cried Rua and turned and descended the turbulent stair of the stream, Leaping f...

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... POEMS IN TWO VOLUMES, VOL. I. BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH AUTHOR OF THE LYRICAL BALLADS. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Poems in T wo... ... POEMS IN TWO VOLUMES, VOL. I. BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH AUTHOR OF THE LYRICAL BALLADS. Posterius graviore sono tibi Musa loquetur Nostra: dabunt ... ...ra: dabunt cum securos mihi tempora fructus. TO THE DAISY. In youth from rock to rock I went From hill to hill, in discontent Of pleasure high a... ... Thou art indeed by many a claim The Poet’s darling. If to a rock from rains he fly, Or, some bright day of April sky, Imprison’d by... ... 40 A hundred times, by rock or bower, Ere thus I have lain couch’d an hour, Have I derived fro... ...hould I fear to say That she is ruddy, fleet, and strong; And down the rocks can leap along, Like rivulets in May? And she hath smiles to eart... ...a Dog or Fox; He halts, and searches with his eyes Among the scatter’d rocks: And now at distance can discern A stirring in a brake of fern; ...

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...alone proves a vast amount of miscellaneous reading, romances of chivalry, ballads, popular poetry, chronicles, for which he had no time or opportu- n... ...shepherdess. As a set-off against this, the old historical and traditional ballads, and the true pastorals, the songs and ballads of peasant life, wer... ... didst imitate that life of mine When I in lonely sadness on the great Rock Pena Pobre sat disconsolate, In self-imposed penance there to pine; ... ... a student or a page. “In that case,” said he, “‘Your bed is on the flinty rock, Your sleep to watch alway;’ and if so, you may dismount and safely re... ...e. The busy and saga- cious bees fixed their republic in the clefts of the rocks and hol- lows of the trees, offering without usance the plenteous pro... ... that he is to be buried in the fields like a Moor, and at the foot of the rock where the Cork-tree spring is, because, as the story goes (and they sa... ...One will pass all the hours of the night seated at the foot of some oak or rock, and there, without having closed his weeping eyes, the sun finds him ... ..., the Galateas, the Filidas, and all the rest of them, that the books, the ballads, the barber’s shops, the theatres are full of, were really and trul... ...oked out on the plaza. The glitter of his showy attire took her fancy, his ballads bewitched her (for he gave away twenty copies of every one he made)...

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...ve and power, Our brethren shield in that dread hour, From rock and tempest, fire and foe, Protect them whereso’er they go. ... ...ayer to Himmel Und a goot long drink of Schnapps. —Hans Breitmann’s Ballads. ‘MARY, MOTHER av Mercy, fwhat the divil possist us to take an’ kap... ...owld on, men,” sez Crook, who tuk a mother’s care av us always. “Rowl some rocks on thim by way av visitin’ kyards.” We hadn’t rowled more than twinty... ...’ll stand?” ‘“Faith, that’s a rare pluckt wan!” sez Crook. “Niver mind the rocks, men. Come along down an’ take tay wid thim!” ‘“There’s damned little... ...sittin’ on the little orf ’cer bhoy who had stopped Crook from rowlin’ the rocks. Oh, he was a beautiful bhoy, an’ the long black curses was slidin’ o... ...cer bhoy. He was for givin’ wan divil wather and layin’ him aisy against a rock. “Be careful, Sorr,” sez I; “a wounded Paythan’s worse than a live wan...

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...nearer than from Bareford’s Parks. [A pass on the very brink of the Castle rock to the north, by which it is just possible for a goat, or a High Schoo... ...ender, has a clean sash- window, and the walls are, moreover, adorned with ballads of Fair Rosamond and Cruel Barbara Allan. The woman’s accent, thoug... ... part of Joshua’s domain, but the brook was there skirted by a precipitous rock of lime- stone, which seemed a barrier of nature’s own erecting around... ...y of the grounds by a natu- 81 Sir W alter Scott ral dam-dike or ledge of rocks, seemed, even in its present swollen state, scarcely to glide along: ... ...s of the foam that floated down from the more rapid stream above. The high rock, which formed the opposite bank of the brook, was seen dimly through t... ... six or seven feet, where the brook flung itself over the ledge of natural rock I have already mentioned, which there crossed its course. The quiet an... ...ured to sing a verse, which, in various forms, occurs so frequently in old ballads— Whare will I get a bonny boy That will win hose and shoon: That wi...

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...belungenlied”. Believing that the poem was made up of a number of distinct ballads or lays, he sought by means of certain criteria to eliminate all pa... ...ger held in its original form. Though we have every reason to believe that ballads of Siegfried the dragon killer, of Siegfried and Kriemhild, and of ... ...d, and of the destruc- tion of the Nibelungs existed in Germany, yet these ballads are no longer to be seen in our poem. They formed merely the basis ... ... Danube and upon the upland plains of Southern Germany, but also along the rocky fjords of Norway, among the Angles and Saxons in their new home acros... ...he Nibelungenlied Frankfort, and the well-known “Drachenfels”, or Dragon’s Rock, on the Rhine. It is to Norway, however, that we must go for our knowl... ...and his relation to Sigrdrifa- Brynhild, the maiden whom he rescues on the rock, on the other his marriage with Grimhild-Gudrun and his conse- quent d... ...iven a different interpretation. Siegfried still rescues a maiden from the rock, not for himself, however, but for an- other. The exchange of forms on... ...e consideration of the strophic form of the Nibelungenlied. The two Danish ballads of “Grimhild’s Revenge” (“Grimhild’s Haevn”), which are based upon ...

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...EMS, IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. II. BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, AUTHOR OF THE LYRICAL BALLADS . A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Poems, in T ... ...MS, IN TWO VOLUMES, VOL. II. BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, AUTHOR OF THE LYRICAL BALLADS . Posterius graviore sono tibi Musa loquetur Nostra: dabunt... ...intain my rights, I’ll take the shortest way.” 7 And thus among these rocks he liv’d, Through summer’s heat and winter’s snow: The Eagle, he ... ..., methinks, when all was past, Have rightfully been laid at last Where rocks were sudely heap’d, and rent As by a spirit turbulent; ... ...enting years have shed Their utmost bounty on thy head: And these gray Rocks; this household Lawn; These T rees, a veil just half withdrawn; T... ...ow’s Holms, And sweet is Yarrow flowing! Fair hangs the apple frae the rock 1 , But we will leave it growing. O’er hilly path, and open Strat... ...ith the Daffodils. 8. 8. 8. 8. 8. Who fancied what a pretty sight This Rock would be if edged around With living Snowdrops? circlet bright! Ho...

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...ins of Ellangowan castle were situated upon a promontory, or projection of rock, which formed one side of a small and placid bay on the sea- shore. Th... ...nd there partially mantled with ivy, stretched along the verge of the dark rock which rose on Mannering’s right hand. In his front was the quiet bay, ... ... variety and beauty with the inland view. In some places it rose into tall rocks, frequently crowned with the ruins of old buildings, towers, or beaco... ... of sugar-plums and toys; the young women wanted pins, ribbons, combs, and ballads; and the old could no longer barter their eggs for salt, snuff, and... ...ashore, which, on the other side of the Point, rose into high and indented rocks. A vague suspi- cion was entertained, though too horrible to be expre... ...me, they would have shuddered to lock at, descended towards a cleft of the rock, where one boat’s crew was already landed. “Here, sirs!—here!—this way... ...rom the kitchen, where they had been listening to auld Elspeth’s tales and ballads; and the youngest half naked, out of bed, all roaring to see daddy,... ... ing in the postmaster’s window, among pamphlets, ginger- bread, rolls, or ballads, according to the trade which the said postmaster exercised. Beside... ...; “if I cannot put a stop to this, all will be out. Oh, the devil take all ballads, and bal- lad-makers, and ballad-singers! and that d-d jade too, to...

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... All at once we got into a strong current, which swept us rapidly toward a rocky promontory forming one side of the harbour. The wind had died away; s... ...efore this could be done, the eddies were whirling upon all sides, and the rock so near that it seemed as if one might leap upon it from the masthead.... ...t, the many stories I had heard of ships striking at midnight upon unknown rocks, with all sail set, and a slum- bering crew, often recurred to me, es... ...etee. It is very narrow; and from the baffling winds, currents, and sunken rocks, ships now and then grate their keels against the coral. But the mate... ...e air breathed spices to us; streams were heard flowing; green boughs were rocking; and far inland, all sunset flushed, rose the still, steep peaks of... ... tossing the football, kite-flying, flute-playing, and singing traditional ballads; now, all punishable offences; though most of them have been so lon...

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...ly, he soon reached an open plat of turf, on the opposite side of which, a rock, rising abruptly from a gently sloping plain, offered its grey and wea... ...ving grace to that whose chief expression was terror. At the bottom of the rock, and leaning, as it were, against it, was constructed a rude hut, buil... ...ance on the right hand, a fountain of the purest water trickled out of the rock, and was received in a hollow stone, which labour had formed into a ru... ...ea becomes an indi- vidual part of that resistless ocean, which undermines rocks and ingulfs royal armadas. Such a swelling flood is that pow- erful l... ...ne and to bind up his wounds. The youngest reader of romances and romantic ballads, must recollect how often the females, during the dark ages, as the... ..., peace and happiness, are so wildly bartered, to become the hero of those ballads which vagabond minstrels sing to drunken churls over their evening ... ...t a buffet that might have felled an ox. But his adversary stood firm as a rock. A loud shout was uttered by all the yeomen around; for the Clerk’s cu... ...ch it hath given rise, shall be remembered to thy disadvantage.” *From the ballads of Robin Hood, we learn that this cel- ebrated outlaw, when in disg... ...al of other poems of the kind. In merry England there is no end of popular ballads on this theme. The poem of John the Reeve, or Steward, mentioned by...

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...ntion, I wager it’s about all we do know of them. They’re Society’s trusty rock- limpets, no doubt.’ ‘My respect for the cloth is extreme.’ Carling’s ... ...ay? And every day! under a green shade?’ ‘Dear fellow, don’t be suggesting ballads; we’ll go now,’ said Fenellan. ‘It ‘s true it’s like sitting on the... ...en by the brain to shoot up to terrific heights of surveyal; and there she rocked; and only her youthful healthiness brought her down to grass and flo... ...crutiny is not so microscopic, in- vaded her, resembling a tide-swell into rock-caves, which have been filled before and left to emptiness, and will b... ...e should herald a new world to the maiden. The voice she had heard did but rock to ruin the world she had been living in. Mademoiselle prudently forbo... ...go down for a while before they rise again; it’s an affair of undulations; rocket mines are not so healthy. The stories are false, for the time. I had... ...rise to come for him, in a boyish antici- pation. The girl’s little French ballads under tutelage of Louise de Seilles promised, though they were imit...

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...ld, vagrant stock, a seedling sown by the breezes, and fall ing among the rocks and sands; the growing up without a mother to cultivate his tendernes... ...per of the preceding day; Lillebullero, Chevy Chase, and the old political ballads; and, what a little amused Redclyffe, the three volumes of a novel ... ...ld fel low, somehow or other, seemed to have struck upon an ever lasting rock, and founded his pompous charity there. They entered an arched door on... ... there seeming to be only one shop, with some gingerbread, penny whistles, ballads, and such matters, displayed in the window; and there, too, across ... ...ng down small obstacles—small considerations of right and wrong—as a great rock, thundering down a hill side, crushes a thousand sweet flowers, and p... ...—the mark of a foot, which seemed to have been slightly impressed into the rock, as if it had been a soft substance, at the same time sliding a little...

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...in her swaying of her little body to and fro; while a most gigantic bonnet rocked, in unison with it, upon the wall. I am surprised, I began, to se... ...he beginning of a cob- web, meant expectation, and that a pen-and- ink sky-rocket, stood for disadvantageous. When I had fixed these wretches in my mi... ...ations of very young people, pursued Miss Lavinia, are dust, compared to rocks. It is owing to the difficulty of knowing whether they are likely to ... ... sisters, said Traddles. Does she sing at all? I asked. Why, she sings ballads, sometimes, to freshen up the others a little when they re out of s... ... more. Oh, take me to your heart, my husband, for my love was founded on a rock, and it endures! In the silence that ensued, my aunt walked gravely u... ...rst mistaken impulse of an undisciplined heart. My love was founded on a rock. But we were at home; and the trodden leaves were lying un- der-foot,... ... always found her, the same bright housewife; often humming her Devonshire ballads when no strange foot was coming up the stairs, and blunting the sha...

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...I have seen a medicine That s able to breathe life into a stone, Quicken a rock, and make you dance canary With spritely fire and motion; whose simple... ...x of impudence, A strumpet s boldness, a divulged shame Traduced by odious ballads: my maiden s name Sear d otherwise; nay, worse if worse extended W...

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...f matronly jewels, of which it is enough to mention the heavy baby she was rocking in her arms, and the sturdy fellow of five in kneebreeches, and red... ... are fond of queer, wizardlike stories. It’s a volume of po- ems, ‘Lyrical Ballads.’ Most of them seem to be twaddling stuff, but the first is in a di... ...other was, lest he should irritate her further. But after Lisbeth had been rocking herself and moaning for some minutes, she suddenly paused and said ... ...down than she threw her apron over her head, and began to cry and moan and rock herself as before. Seth thought, “She will be quieter by and by, now w... ...ing that he should presently induce her to have some tea. Lisbeth had been rocking herself in this way for more than five minutes, giving a low moan w... ...a journeyman tramp from nobody knows where!” Here Lisbeth began to cry and rock herself again; and Dinah said, “Y es, dear friend, your affliction is ...

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...ll in the midst of the gardens; the singers, both of comic and sentimental ballads, who charmed the ears there; the country dances, formed by bouncing... ...or a bath. I say, Dob, I feel just as I did on the morning I went out with Rocket at Quebec.” “So do I,” William responded. “I was a deuced deal more ... ...s a pretty picture: the beach; the bathing-women’s faces; the long line of rocks and building were blushing and bright in the sunshine. Rebecca wore a... ...s score; and Donald, the High- lander, billeted in the Flemish farm-house, rocked the baby’s cradle, while Jean and Jeannette were out getting in the ... ...k, surrounded by the greatest and most famous dandies of this empire. Mrs. Rockwood is another, whose parties are announced laboriously in the fashion... ...g into the fire-place. “I will not have baby poisoned, Mamma,” cried Emmy, rocking the infant about violently with both her arms round him and turning...

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...nd were fain to hold on tight, to keep himself from darting skyward like a rocket, ‘I tell you without fear or favour, that it will not do for you to ... ...n of Mr Jinkins allowed. For Jinkins, to the last the youngest gentleman’s rock a-head in life, stood upon the coachstep talking to the ladies. Upon t... ...ths below. Among these sleeping voyagers were Martin and Mark Tapley, who, rocked into a heavy drowsiness by the unaccustomed motion, were as insensib... ... as he looked. Here an old grandmother was crooning over a sick child, and rocking it to and fro, in arms hardly more wasted than its own young limbs;... ...er on the principle of the Siamese Twins. Before it, swinging himself in a rocking-chair , lounged a large gentle- man with his hat on, who amused him... ... another thing. So down she sat, and in a pleasant voice began to sing the ballads Tom loved well. Old rhyming stories, with here and there a pause fo...

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...ad perished on the day 236 Of Human Bondage the first series of Poems and Ballads was pub- lished!” The suggestion pleased, for no one at the table w... ...fferent crowd that watched them, went up to her, took her in her arms, and rocked her gently to and fro as if she were a baby . When they were gone a ... ... the chimney-piece an elaborate arrangement of shells stuck on a miniature rock; and on each side mugs, `A present from Southend’ in Gothic letters, w...

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...adies and play-place of the young people. Dunbar Castle, standing on steep rocks above the North Sea, was not only inaccessible on that side, but from... ...reen summits, and below, the tossing waves breaking white against the dark rocks, and the distance becoming more and more hazy, in spite of the bright... ...eir own way, through lanes and fields at times, but oftener through heath, rock, and moor, for England was not yet thickly inhabited, though there was... ...e subject, mentioned that the Lady Eleanor had sung or said certain choice ballads, and Henry eagerly entreated for one. It was the pathetic ‘Wife of ... ...alk to me, the muckle uncouthie wife that I am, kenning nought but a wheen ballads and romaunts—not even able to give him the heir for whom he longs,’... ...but the Hapsburg was primarily a Tirolean mountaineer, and he measured the rock with a glistening triumphant eye. ‘Man can,’ he said. ‘That will we. B...

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...sh! Carrying them down to the boat one of my nigger chaps dropped one on a rock and it smashed. How I lammed into the beggar! But sweet it was, as if ... ... perhaps twelve yards in length or more, and I fastened two lumps of coral rock to the ends of this. It took me some time to do, because every now and... ...nto a better understanding. If I’d had any means of digging into the coral rock I’d have buried him. I felt exactly as if he was human. As it was, I c... ...ctly black until he emerged again—and through 64 The Country of the Blind rocks and trees and solid obstacles, and when he was taken to his own room ... ..., because going upstairs seemed to lift him thirty or forty feet above the rocks of his imaginary island. He kept saying he should smash all the eggs.... ...es, and during the ear- lier part of this great drunk he sang divers merry ballads. He cut his finger rather badly with one of the bottles—the only bl...

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...She, for the future of her strength convinced. And that her honour was a rock, or mole, Exceeding sagely from that hour dispensed With any k... ...ts; But vaccination certainly has been A kind antithesis to Congreve’s rockets, With which the Doctor paid off an old pox, By borrowing a ne... ...he sea dashes round the promontory, And the loud breaker boils against the rock, And sober suns must set at five o’clock. Byron’s Don Juan “Cant... ...ges did understand, But now lay sick and speechless on his pillow, And rocking in his hammock, long’d for land, His headache being increased... ...e, and bear More than can be believed, or even thought, And stand like rocks the tempest’s wear and tear; And hardship still has been the sail... ...t sweet, He always is complaining of his lot, Forsooth, scarce fit for ballads in the street; In lovers’ parts his passion more to breathe, ... ... ears, lest Italy should fail. In Babylon’s bravuras—as the home Heart ballads of Green Erin or Gray Highlands, That bring Lochaber back to ey...

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...arges. The very basket that you slept in, the tide washed ashore. The very rockers that I put it upon to make a cradle of it, I cut out of a piece of ... ... fine woman for Professor Owen, quantity of bone, neck and nostrils like a rocking-horse, hard features, majestic head-dress in which Podsnap has hung... ...he bleak world. ‘His will is found,’ said Mortimer, catching Mrs Podsnap’s rocking-horse’s eye. ‘It is dated very soon after the son’s flight. It leav... ...mer, the unfolded clothes-horse displayed a choice collection of halfpenny ballads and became a screen, and the stool planted within it became his pos... ... s a pleasant place, this! And then to be shut in on each side, with these ballads, like so many book-leaf blinkers! Why, its delightful!’ ‘If I am no... ...and then to feel yourself in the mind to tip me and Mrs Boffin one of your ballads, why then we should drop into poetry.’ ‘I follow you, sir,’ said We... ...whole in a cash-box to-morrow morning, and take it with you to—say, to the Rocky Mountains. Inasmuch as every man,’ concluded Mr Lightwood, with an in... ... be under a fatal spell which obliges him, sooner or later, to mention the Rocky Mountains in a tone of extreme familiar- ity to some other man, I hop... ...ir, not a word more. My stall and I are for ever parted. The collection of ballads will in future be reserved for private study, with the object of ma...

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...ho cracked their jokes upon his bandy legs and his crooked back. Some sang ballads about Mme. d’Aguillon, his mistress, and Mme. Cambalet, his niece; ... ...e of the street, pass by on the other. Do not cast yourself against such a rock; he would break you like glass.” “That will not prevent me,” replied D... ...- rowfully. “You approach that famous point of free will which is a mortal rock. You face the insinuations of the Pelagians and the demi-Peligians.” “... ... from it as he could when, on the opposite side of the road, from behind a rock, he perceived the extremity of another musket. This was evidently an a... ...ead of the already-wounded guard, and the other flattened itself against a rock, after having passed within two inches of D’Artagnan. The young man tu... ...ars, and breaks itself like an eter- nal and powerless despair against the rocks on which is built this dark and lofty castle! How many magnificent pr...

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... bears to this day. My adventures in the county of Stafford, whence I escaped with the daughter of my host on a pillion behind me, still fill the tale... ...oiselle de Mancini, quite in- dignant, quitted the king’s arm, hastily entered the carriage, crying to the coachman, “Go on, go on, and quick!” The co... ...to his object. He got together, therefore, his army, for- midable at the same time for its composition and its num- bers, and hastened to meet Monk, w... ...ack by a carpenter, I should be ex- tremely grateful.” “Why so?” “Because the gentlemen of your army, in dragging my boat up the river with a cable pu... ...or having done one’s duty is humiliating.” “He is right,” said Gourville, as he drew Fouquet’s at- tention, by a gesture, to another point. He showed ... ... which separate the salt-mines. D’Artagnan, aware of the consequences of a fall, which would result in a cold bath, allowed him to go as he liked, con...

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..., and makes her waist just like a wasp. She and Aunt Jane live together at Rockquay, because she has bad health—at least she has whenever she likes; a... ... held the paper in her hands, and she gazed out dreamily at the T on’s and rocks and woody ravines of Dartmoor as they flew past her, the leaves and f... ...ow. And he sang! We used to go to the Choral Society concerts, and he sang ballads so beautifully, and always looked at Louie!’ ‘I should not care for... ... Fergus and Primrose as her infant sons, and fascinated King Edward on the rocking-horse, which was much too vi- vant, for it reared as perpendicularl... ...lighted on the ensuing evening for G.F .S. Moreover, the party would go to Rockstone as soon as an appointment could be made with Miss Mohun, to make ... ... to spend the day with me? We neithe of us wish to join your kind party to Rockstone, and we should so enjoy being together.’ ‘I had much rather stay,...

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...lame. The misfortune is, that when he learns the total loss of her on that rock-promontory, he’ll be dashing himself upon rocks sure to shiver him. Th... ...elf to stand in despite of tempests without and within; and how the statue rocks there, how much more pitiably than the common sons of earth who have ... ...a peaceful existence; he’s a stone in a sling, and prob- ably mistaken the rocking that’s to launch him through the air for a condition of remarkable ... ...eal. ‘And I think I’m of your opinion: and the sea no longer dashes at the rock, but makes itself a mirror to the same. She’ll keep her money and nurs... ...bery’s flank to support Mattock hardpressed, and this artillery of English Rockney resounds, with a simi- lar object: the ladies to look on and award ... ....’ ‘We think her a good-looking girl.’ ‘Does she play? sing?’ ‘Some of our ballads.’ ‘She will delight my brother. John loves Irish ballads.’ A silenc...

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...nd robust body, and of a strong and active mind; yet, as in the most solid rocks veins of unsound substance are often discovered, there was in him a m... ...in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. ‘Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man str... ...ffusion, and affluence of conversation; but I would not talk to him of the Rockingham party.’ Goldsmith. ‘But, Sir, when people live together who have... ... it known.’ The conversation having turned on modern imitations of ancient ballads, and some one having praised their simplicity, he treated them with... ... false accounts. A great part of their language is proverbial. If anything rocks at all, they say it rocks like a cradle; and in this way they go on. ... ...with hills covered with woods, and walks neatly formed along the side of a rocky steep, on the quarter next the house with re- cesses under projection...

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...nxieties sent him hurrying from Marsac to Angouleme; he would climb up the rocky staircases into the old city and walk into his son’s workshop to see ... ...mi- nates abruptly just above the road from Paris to Bordeaux, so that the Rock of Angouleme is a sort of promontory mark- ing out the line of three p... ...han zeal, all stagnating together, motionless as their town founded upon a rock. Yet Angouleme enjoyed a great reputation in the provinces round about... ...a- tures, springing up out of a rich and fruitful soil on founda- tions of rock. Many a time Eve had seen revelations of the strength that lay below t... ... in duty bound listened while Chatelet in turn sang one of Chateaubriand’s ballads, a chivalrous ditty made in the time of the Empire. Duets followed,...

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...e means it only too seriously, though he is a buffoon. He stands on a firm rock, too, he stands on his sensuality though after we are thirty, indeed, ... ...f Peter the Great. But be- sides plays there were all sorts of legends and ballads scattered about the world, in which the saints and angels and all t...

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...winds, and woods, and waters, falling snows, and flying sands, and rolling rocks, and these are carefully distinguished by corresponding verbs of ever... ...ed spouse,” Wellamo, at the bottom of the sea, in the chasms of the Salmon rocks, where his palace, Ahtola, is constructed. Besides the fish that swi... ...r way to the woodland pastures. Nyrikki also busies himself in blazing the rocks and the trees to guide the heroes to their favorite hunting grounds. ... ...have human forms. Where the three arms of the Tuoni river meet a frightful rock arises, called Kipu Kivi, or Kipuvuori, in a dungeon beneath which the... ...dungeon beneath which the spirits of all diseases are imprisoned. On this rock the third daughter of T uoui sits, constantly whirl ing it round like... ...ght together more than one thousand frag ments of epical poetry, national ballads, and proverbs. These he published in two works, respectively entitl... ...to the architecture of the Kalevala, it stands midway be tween the epical ballads of the Servians and the purely epical structure of the Iliad. Thoug... ...; Then I chanted tales of heroes, On the blue back of the waters, Sang the ballads of my people, In the vales and on the mountains, Through the verdan...

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...he winsome Scyld, the leader beloved who long had ruled.... In the roadstead rocked a ring dight vessel, ice flecked, outbound, atheling’s barge: ther... ... the doughty in combat a dragon killed that herded the hoard: 1 under hoary rock the atheling dared the deed alone fearful quest, nor was Fitela ther... ...nways fearful, where flows the stream from mountains gliding to gloom of the rocks, underground flood. Not far is it hence in measure of miles that th... ...s to scan, till he found in a flash the forested hill hanging over the hoary rock, a woful wood: the waves below were dyed in blood. The Danish men ha... ...ning burnished, bright, continues to be a favorite adjective in the popular ballads. XXIII ‘Mid the battle gear saw he a blade triumphant, old sword ... ...ormed the stark heart; stern went ringing and clear his cry ‘neath the cliff rocks gray. The hoard guard heard a human voice; his rage was enkindled. ...

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... his grave. But did the dead man laugh? In their quietest times, they sang ballads and told tales, for the edification of their pious visitors; or per... ...g round a Maypole!” And Endicott, the severest Puritan of all who laid the rock foundation of New England, lifted the wreath of roses from the ruin of... ...ny. They spread their individual supplies of food on the flat surface of a rock, and partook of a general repast; at the close of which, a sentiment o... ...splendor, that showed the huge shapes of the surrounding mountains and the rock-bestrewn bed of the turbulent river with an 99 Hawthorne illumination... ... which now shrank affrighted from the re- gion of wind and cloud and naked rocks and desolate sun- shine, that rose immeasurably above them. They gaze... ...three feet in altitude. Next, they came to masses and fragments of na- ked rock heaped confusedly together, like a cairn reared by giants in memory of...