Joan of Arc: Selections: I. Joan of Arc. II. Affliction of Childhood. III. Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow. IV. Dream FugueMaynard, Merrill & Company, 1889 - 64 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
Agincourt amongst ancient angel as-tu battle battle of Agincourt bishop Bishop of Beauvais called cathedral centuries Charlemagne Charles VI child childhood Church clouds confession coronation Crécy crowned D'Arc darkness dauphin death deep Domrémy dreadful dreams dust earth enemy England English eyes fairies falconer's lure father fiery forests forever fountain of Domrémy French frontier Fugue glory grandeur grave grief Haumette haunted head heard heart heaven History of France honor house of Anjou Joan of Arc Joanna King of France Lady of Sighs Levana lilies of France Lorraine Louis Maid malice Matthew Tindal Michelet mighty mysterious never oftentimes pinnace prick Prince Pucelle d'Orleans Quincey reader Revolution Rheims rising rose royal ruin says scaffold secret word shadow shepherd girl shepherdess sister sleep solitude sorrow Southey's Joan story suffer sweet tears thee thou thought throne trial trumpet truth vast victorious visions voices wept witness woman
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Página 27 - When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things...
Página 4 - That boy," said one of my masters, pointing the attention of a stranger to me, " that boy could harangue an Athenian mob better than you or I could address an English one.
Página 10 - Vaucouleurs which celebrated in rapture the redemption of France. No! for her voice was then silent; no! for her feet were dust. Pure, innocent, noble-hearted girl! whom, from earliest youth, ever I believed in as full of truth and self-sacrifice, this was amongst the strongest pledges for thy...
Página 34 - Oybele,14 rises almost beyond the reach of sight. She droops not ; and her eyes rising so high might be hidden by distance. But, being what they are, they cannot be hidden ; through the treble veil of crape which she wears, the fierce light of a blazing misery, that rests not for matins or for vespers, for noon of day or noon of night, for ebbing or for flowing tide, may be read from the very ground.
Página 32 - For already, in my fervent youth, I saw (dimly relieved upon the dark background of my dreams) the imperfect lineaments of the awful Sisters. These Sisters — by what name shall we call them? If I say simply "The Sorrows...
Página 33 - She it was that stood in Bethlehem on the night when Herod's sword swept its nurseries of innocents, and the little feet were stiffened forever, which, heard at times as they tottered along floors overhead, woke pulses of love in household hearts that were not unmarked in heaven.
Página 11 - ... death; she saw not in vision, perhaps, the aerial altitude of the fiery scaffold, the spectators without end on every road pouring into Rouen as to a coronation, the surging smoke, the volleying flames, the hostile faces all around, the pitying eye that lurked but here and there, until nature and imperishable truth broke loose from artificial restraints; — these might not be apparent through the mists of the hurrying future. But the voice that called her to death, that she heard for ever.
Página 32 - These ladies," said I softly to myself, on seeing the ministers with whom Levana was conversing, " these are the Sorrows ; and they are three in number, as the Graces are three, who dress man's life with beauty : the...
Página 22 - That fountain, of which the witnesses spoke so much, showed itself to your eyes in pure morning dews; but neither dews, nor the holy dawn, could cleanse away the bright spots of innocent blood upon its surface. By the fountain, bishop, you saw a woman seated, that hid her face. But, as you draw near, the woman raises her wasted features. Would Domremy know them again for the features of her child? Ah, but you know them, bishop, well! Oh, mercy! what a groan was...
Página 31 - Italian verb) levare, to raise aloft. This is the explanation of Levana. And hence it has arisen that some people have understood by Levana the tutelary power that controls the education of the nursery. She, that would not suffer at his birth even a prefigurative or mimic degradation for her awful ward, far less could be supposed to suffer the real degradation attaching to the non-development of his powers. She therefore watches over human education. Now, the word educo, with the penultimate short,...