Round My House: Notes on Rural Life in France in Peace and WarRoberts, 1897 - 415 páginas |
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Round My House: Notes of Rural Life in France in Peace & War Philip Gilbert Hamerton Vista completa - 1877 |
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Página 211 - And in the nights of winter, When the cold north winds blow, And the long howling of the wolves Is heard amidst the snow; When round the lonely cottage Roars loud the tempest's din, And the good logs of Algidus Roar louder yet within...
Página 211 - When the oldest cask is opened, And the largest lamp is lit ; When the chestnuts glow in the embers, And the kid turns on the spit ; When young and old in circle Around the firebrands close ; When the girls are weaving baskets, And the lads are shaping bows...
Página 369 - My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone!
Página 212 - And trims his helmet's plume ; When the goodwife's shuttle merrily Goes flashing through the loom ; With weeping and with laughter Still is the story told, How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.
Página 104 - Nothing contributes more to nourish elevation of sentiments in a people, than the large and free character of their habitations. The middle-age architecture, the baronial hall, and the spacious and lofty rooms, of this fine old place, so unlike the mean and cramped externals of English middle class life, gave the sentiment of a larger and freer existence, and were to me a sort of poetic cultivation...
Página 428 - Life and Times of Stein, or Germany and Prussia in the Napoleonic Age, by JR SEELEY, MA, Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge. With Portraits and Maps. 3 vols. Demy 8vo.