Poems, Characteristic, Itinerary, and MiscellaneousLondon, 1868 - 243 pages |
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Algernon Charles Swinburne Anon bard beauty brain breast breath breeze calm Castle Howard Cognac conceit Corfù creed cult deed divine downhaul dream dull earth ETCHINGS OF CHARACTER eyes fact fain faith fate fcap fraught gale grace GUIDO RENI hath heart Heaven hence her's Hic sumus human Hyères ideal idlesse inner instinct John Camden Hotten light linklet lisp live Marseilles Megara memory mental mind moral Muse Nature's ne'er neath never o'er once one's Philosophy Poems poet quaint quick rhyme RHYTHMICAL ETCHINGS Rome round sail Scottish Central Railway seemed sense ship silent social sooth sought soul strange sumus taste taught thee thence there's thine things thou thought Time's Tiney TRACINGS OF TRAVEL Trite true truth trysail Twas unto verse vision viveur wave weather ween Whate'er Wherein wind wing wise wont word yacht Ελπε σεαυτὸν
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Page 203 - Clivosque praeruptos, sonantes Inter aquas, nemorumque noctem ; Quam si repostus sub trabe citrea Fulgeret auro, et Phidiaca manu :) Salve vocanti rite, fesso et Da placidam juveni quietem.
Page 196 - Acque ei sospese a se d' intorno ; e tale Quando il mar chiuse, e ne fe tomba altrui. E voi, sue turbe, un rio vitello alzaste ? Alzata aveste immago a questa eguale ; Ch' era men fallo 1
Page 242 - SONGS OF THE NATIVITY. An entirely new collection of Old Carols, including some never before given in any collection. With Music to the more popular. Edited by WH HUSK, Librarian to the Sacred Harmonic Society. In charmingly appropriate cloth, gilt, and admirably adapted for binding in antique calf, or morocco, 12s.
Page 194 - ... gola: senza soccorso, oh Dio, senza consiglio, che far potea la sventurata e sola? Morir, lo so, pria che peccar, dovea: ma quando il ferro del suo sangue intrise qual colpa in sé la bella donna avea? Peccò Tarquinio, e il fallo ei sol commise in lei, ma non con ella: ella fu rea allora sol, che un'innocente uccise.
Page 242 - The epigrammatic drollery of Mr. Cholmondeley Pennell's 'Puck on Pegasus' is well known to many of our readers. . . . The present is a superb and handsomely printed and illustrated edition of this book.
Page 241 - Mr. Swinburne's Notes on his Poems, and on the Reviews which have appeared upon them, is now ready, price is.
Page 241 - SWINBURNE'S SONG OF ITALY, Fcap. 8vo, toned paper, cloth, price 35. 6d. *,* Th» Atkenieum remarks of this poem—" Seldom has such a chant been heard, so full of glow, strength, and colour.
Page 242 - An entirely new collection of Old Carols, including some never before given in any collection. With Music to the more popular. Edited by WH HUSK, Librarian to the Sacred Harmonic Society. In small 4to, with very beautiful floriated borders, in the Renaissance style, cloth gilt, price 12s.
Page 241 - For twelve years the American poet Whitman has been the object of widespread detraction and of concentrated admiration. The admiration continues to...
Page 241 - Also New and Revised Editions. Atalanta in Calydon. By Algernon Charles Swinburne. 6s. Chastelard: a Tragedy. By AC Swinburne. 7s. Rossetti's Criticism on Swinburne's "Poems.