Notes from a Diary: 1896 to January 23, 1901, Volume 1John Murray, 1905 - Great Britain |
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Page 195 - 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 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 8 - O! ma'am, say no more, for I would have done a great deal more to see so great a CURIOSITY!
Page 170 - Borealian electors, waiting, till the gout is gone out of his foot, for an audience. The City of London is so elated, that I think it very lucky some Alderman did not insist on — Matching his daughter with the King. Adieu! 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 31 - As generations onward came They loved from all to win Revival of the sacred flame That glowed their hearts within ; While others in time's greedy mesh The faded garlands flung, Their hearts went out and gathered fresh Affections from the young.
Page 124 - Vous confondez la négation des croyances avec la liberté de penser, qui est précisément tout le contraire. Vous abaissez le législateur, vous énervez le juge, vous supprimez le soldat : et c'est le moment que vous choisissez pour supprimer aussi les croyances. Vous les pourchassez jusque dans les campagnes, comme s'il vous fallait, après la Commune, des Jacqueries. C'est un étrange moyen de sauver et de régénérer la France (1).
Page 67 - Saints such as we find them ; only perhaps less poetically. Who has not observed in himself, in his ordinary dealings with the facts of every-day life, with the sayings and doings of his acquaintance, in short, with every thing which comes before him as a, fact, a disposition to forget the real order in which they appear, and re-arrange them according to his theory of how they ought to be...
Page 192 - Tiens, jette-toi donc dans la pensée que tout ce qui nous plaît tant sur terre n'est absolument qu'une ombre, et que la vérité de tout cela est au ciel. Et aimer, aimer, après tout, n'est-ce pas, sur terre, ce qu'il ya de plus doux?
Page 300 - 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 137 - you did not let me finish what I was going to say. I was going to tell you that the very moment before his conversion, Ratisbonne was saying to himself: ' How hideous the architecture of this Church is.