The Brothers Wiffen: Memoirs and MiscellaniesSamuel Rowles Pattison Hodder and Stoughton, 1880 - 375 pages |
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... bower , Here where bright chesnut weds the towering fir , Recall fair Wisdom back , that I may dwell with her . " " Aspley Wood , " is the principal poem , in a volume containing several , published by J. H. Wiffen in 1819 , under the ...
... bower , Here where bright chesnut weds the towering fir , Recall fair Wisdom back , that I may dwell with her . " " Aspley Wood , " is the principal poem , in a volume containing several , published by J. H. Wiffen in 1819 , under the ...
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... bower . * * XXXIII . He who hath ne'er invested Solitude With an undying beauty , ne'er hath knelt In worship when her sceptre brought the mood Of melancholy o'er him , hath not felt Sweetness in sorrow - is not used to melt With the ...
... bower . * * XXXIII . He who hath ne'er invested Solitude With an undying beauty , ne'er hath knelt In worship when her sceptre brought the mood Of melancholy o'er him , hath not felt Sweetness in sorrow - is not used to melt With the ...
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... bowers , to remind you that others are as happy as yourselves , in selecting this , as the spot of their meditations and repose . Now , and then , a fly brushes past you with its indolent wing ;. the grasshopper sings drow- sily in the ...
... bowers , to remind you that others are as happy as yourselves , in selecting this , as the spot of their meditations and repose . Now , and then , a fly brushes past you with its indolent wing ;. the grasshopper sings drow- sily in the ...
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... bowers , the rooks were returning with loud cries , a naked grey crag , and a large part of the vale itself , were in shade . The line of sunshine , took in part of a grove of firs , and the mountains on the east , and illuminated a ...
... bowers , the rooks were returning with loud cries , a naked grey crag , and a large part of the vale itself , were in shade . The line of sunshine , took in part of a grove of firs , and the mountains on the east , and illuminated a ...
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... bowers spread ; I follow in their wake the Roman ages , Where Paul , the Apostle , much desired to tread . * * Romans xv . 24-28 . On Albaracire's head , Orion pillows His flaming limbs , 100 THE LIFE OF B. B. WIFFEN .
... bowers spread ; I follow in their wake the Roman ages , Where Paul , the Apostle , much desired to tread . * * Romans xv . 24-28 . On Albaracire's head , Orion pillows His flaming limbs , 100 THE LIFE OF B. B. WIFFEN .
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Page 18 - own exceeding great reward ; ' it has soothed my afflictions ; it has multiplied and refined my enjoyments ; it has endeared solitude ; and it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and the beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
Page 1 - is not to be obtained but by devout prayer to that eternal spirit that can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Page 68 - As for nobility in particular persons; it is a reverend thing to see an ancient castle or building not in decay, or to see a fair timber-tree sound and perfect: how much more to behold an ancient noble family, which hath stood against the waves and weathers of time.
Page 279 - More sweet than odours caught by him who sails Near spicy shores of Araby the blest, A thousand times more exquisitely sweet, The freight of holy feeling which we meet, In thoughtful moments, wafted by the gales From fields where good men walk, or bowers wherein they rest.
Page 16 - For some, that hath abundance at his will, Hath not enough, but wants in greatest store ; And other, that hath little, asks no more, But in that little is both rich and wise ; For wisdom is most riches : fools therefore They are, which fortunes do by vows devise ; Sith each unto himself his life may fortuuise." " Since then in each man's self...
Page 72 - ... as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit is like one that is wounded in hot blood, who for the time scarce feels the hurt' and therefore, a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death. But above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations.
Page 89 - Who are their own upholders, to themselves Encouragement, and energy, and will, Expressing liveliest thoughts in lively words As native passion dictates. Others, too, There are among the walks of homely life Still higher, men for contemplation framed, Shy, and unpractised in the strife of phrase ; Meek men, whose very souls perhaps would sink Beneath them, summoned to such intercourse : Theirs is the language of the heavens, the power, The thought, the image, and the silent joy : Words are but under-agents...
Page 214 - And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.
Page 255 - Tis dusk of day; — in Eden's towers A mother o'er her infant bends, And lists, amid the whispering bowers, The sound that from the stream ascends. It comes in murmurs up the stairs, A low, a sweet, a mellow voice, And charms away the lady's cares, And bids the mother's heart rejoice. " Sleep sweetly, babe !" 't was heard to say ; " But if the goblet break or fall, Farewell thy vantage in the fray ! Farewell the luck of Eden-hall!
Page 58 - Tis sweet to hear the watch-dog's honest bark Bay deep-mouthed welcome as we draw near home; 'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark Char coming, and look brighter when we come...