 Oh, our manhood's prime vigour ! no spirit feels waste, Not a muscle is stopped in its playing, nor sinew unbraced. Oh, the wild joys of living! the leaping from rock up to rock — The strong rending of boughs from the fir-tree, — the cool silver shock...  Bentley's Miscellany - Page 67edited by - 1856Full view - About this book
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1856 - 672 pages
...pen-door, till folding be done. They are white and untorn by the bushes, for lo, they have fed Where the long grasses stifle the water within the stream's...good indeed), and having for its subject Lazarus of Bethany in his resurrection-life, as seen and speculated upon by an Arab physician, " Rarshish, the... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1856 - 686 pages
...locust's-flesh steeped in the pitcher ; the full draught of wine, And the sleep in the dried river-chaniiel where bulrushes tell That the water was wont to go...good indeed), and having for its subject Lazarus of > epistle is supposed about the time of the Romans' advance on Jerusalem : The njan-^-it is one Lazarus... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1856 - 386 pages
...in the pitcher ; the full draught of wine, And the sleep in the dried river-channel where bullrushes tell That the water was wont to go warbling so softly and well. How good is man's life, the mere living ! how fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses,... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1863 - 430 pages
...manhood's prime vigour! no spirit feels waste, Not a muscle is stopped in its playing, nor sinew unbraced. Oh, the wild joys of living ! the leaping from rock...water was wont to go warbling so softly and well. How good is man's life, the mere living ! how fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses,... | |
 | william harrison ainsworth - 1866 - 516 pages
...locust's flesh steep'd in the pitcher, the full draught of wine, And the sleep in the dried river channel, where bulrushes tell That the water was wont to go warbling so softly and well. The memories even of a single year supplied him with a thousand sources from which to draw pictures... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1867 - 824 pages
...lair. Aria the meal — the rich dates yellowed over with gold-dust divine, And the locust's flesh steeped in the pitcher! The full draught of wine,...water was wont to go warbling so softly and well. How good is man's life, the mere living ! how fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses... | |
 | 1867 - 590 pages
...his lair. And the meal — the rich dates yellowed over with gold-dust divine, And the locust's flesh steeped in the pitcher! The full draught of wine,...water was wont to go warbling so softly and well. How good is man's life, the mere living ! how fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses... | |
 | Marie Louise De la Ramée - 1867 - 348 pages
...locust's flesh steep'd in the pitcher, the full draught of wine, And the sleep in the dried river channel, where bulrushes tell That the water was wont to go warbling so softly and well. " The memories even of a single year supplied him with a thousand sources from which to draw pictures... | |
 | 1868 - 1078 pages
...rich dates yellowed o'er with gold dust divine, And the locust-flesh steeped in the pitcher, the lull draught of wine, And the sleep in the dried river-channel,...water was wont to go warbling so softly and well. Hence, too, that love for colour quite Oriental in its richness, that breaks out wherever the woet's... | |
 | Edward William Lane - 1879 - 302 pages
...in his lair. And the meal, the rich dates yellowed over with gold-dust divine, And the locust flesh steeped in the pitcher, the full draught of wine,...water was wont to go warbling so softly and well. How good is man's life, the mere living 1 how fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses... | |
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