Francis Turner Palgrave: His Journals and Memories of His LifeLongmans, Green, 1899 - 276 pages |
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... hands at eve Drop , should be his to leave . Or in life's homeliest , meanest spot , To strike the circle of his years A perfect curve through joys and tears , Leaving a pure name to be known , or not , - This is a true man's lot . Ah ...
... hands at eve Drop , should be his to leave . Or in life's homeliest , meanest spot , To strike the circle of his years A perfect curve through joys and tears , Leaving a pure name to be known , or not , - This is a true man's lot . Ah ...
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... hands that tended infant limbs , The feet that rock'd our sleeping : The lips that told the wholesome lies That stay'd our idle weeping . These echoes from the past I prize , Though faint and rare they be : For ah ! the days of ...
... hands that tended infant limbs , The feet that rock'd our sleeping : The lips that told the wholesome lies That stay'd our idle weeping . These echoes from the past I prize , Though faint and rare they be : For ah ! the days of ...
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... hands that then we clasp'd : For merry tripping feet : For daily thoughtless welcomings , And partings but to meet ! The shout , the song , the leap , the race : The light of happy faces : The ready aid : the love - alas ! - And childly ...
... hands that then we clasp'd : For merry tripping feet : For daily thoughtless welcomings , And partings but to meet ! The shout , the song , the leap , the race : The light of happy faces : The ready aid : the love - alas ! - And childly ...
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... hand , was inexpressibly melancholy to him ; a dismantled abbey - the broken shaft of an arch - produced the same pathetic im- pression as the faded remains of Leonardo's ' Cenacolo . ' Besides this more or less æsthetic point of view ...
... hand , was inexpressibly melancholy to him ; a dismantled abbey - the broken shaft of an arch - produced the same pathetic im- pression as the faded remains of Leonardo's ' Cenacolo . ' Besides this more or less æsthetic point of view ...
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... hand , it was highly praised by some of the contemporary reviewers . The Times ' laid stress on the tenderness , the deep feeling , and exquisite felicity of language , ' which marked its best passages : " ' Preciosa ' has something in ...
... hand , it was highly praised by some of the contemporary reviewers . The Times ' laid stress on the tenderness , the deep feeling , and exquisite felicity of language , ' which marked its best passages : " ' Preciosa ' has something in ...
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