Notes from a Diary: 1896 to January 23, 1901, Volume 1John Murray, 1905 |
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Page 229 - Soon will the high Midsummer pomps come on, Soon will the musk carnations break and swell, Soon shall we have gold-dusted snapdragon, Sweet- William with his homely cottage-smell, And stocks in fragrant blow ; Roses that down the alleys shine afar, And open, jasmine-muffled lattices, And groups under the dreaming garden-trees, And the full moon, and the white evening-star.
Page 105 - And yet Time hath his revolutions ; there must be a period and an end to all temporal things— -finis rerum, an end of names and dignities, and whatsoever is terrene, and why not of De Vere ? For where is Bohun ? Where is Mowbray ? Where is Mortimer ? Nay, which is more and most of all, where is Plantagenet ? They are entombed in the urns and sepulchres of mortality. And yet let the name and dignity of De Vere stand so long as it pleaseth God!
Page 5 - Why, why repine, my pensive friend, At pleasures slipt away? Some the stern Fates will never lend, And all refuse to stay. I see the rainbow in the sky, The dew upon the grass ; I see them, and I ask not why They glimmer or they pass. With folded arms I linger not To call them back — 'twere vain : In this, or in some other spot I know they'll shine again.
Page 96 - The mot is universally given to Sydney Smith, but Edwin Landseer swears he never did, nor could have asked so ugly a...
Page 218 - ... Political Opinions of the Early Jesuits," in which he endeavoured to prove that they, in their desire to support the power of the Church against the State, had been the first promulgators of those opinions which we Liberals of to-day have inherited from our Whig predecessors.
Page 202 - You left it a private little island, living upon its means. You would find it the Capital of the World, St. James's Street crowded with Nabobs and American Chiefs, and Mr. Pitt attended in his Sabine farm by Eastern Monarchs, waiting till the gout has gone out of his foot for an audience. I shall be in town to-morrow, and perhaps able to wrap up and send you half-a-dozen French standards in my postscript.
Page 334 - Under the porch are seen the tombs of some generous Englishmen who died in exile for their fidelity to the religion which these apostles taught them ; and, among other sepulchral inscriptions, this which follows may be remarked and remembered : " Here lies Robert Pecham, an English Catholic, who. after the disruption of England and the Church, quitted his country, unable to endure life there without the faith, and who, coming to Rome, died, unable to endure life here without his...
Page 226 - Is it possible to feel a personal attachment to Christ such as is prescribed by Thomas a Kempis ? I think that it is impossible, and contrary to human nature, that we should be able to concentrate our thoughts on a person scarcely known to us, who lived 1, 800 years ago.
Page 8 - O! ma'am, say no more, for I would have done a great deal more to see so great a CURIOSITY!
Page 255 - the most majestic in the Bible." I happened to repeat to Mrs. Locker - Lampson Swinburne's strange judgment about two lines in Sordello quoted in the Indian portion of these Notes, and she said the two lines of Browning's which Tennyson most admired were: " Oh ! the little more and how much it is. Oh ! the little less and what worlds away." George Boyle made us laugh by telling us that some one had read Lady Geraldine's Courtship to Lockhart, who remarked at the close : " I am afraid that union would...