Maid Marian and Crotchet Castle

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Macmillan, 1895 - 321 頁
This version of the Robin Hood legend satirizes English politicians and reformers.

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第 268 頁 - The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.
第 109 頁 - Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
第 84 頁 - Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.
第 205 頁 - Do anything better than dine ? We'll dine and drink, and say if we think That anything better can be ; And when we have dined, wish all mankind May dine as well as we. And though a good wish will fill no dish, And brim no cup with sack, Yet thoughts will spring, as the glasses ring, To illume our studious track.
第 289 頁 - ... giver, He jerked it immediately into the river. Gwenwynwyn, aghast, not a syllable spake ; The philosopher's stone made a duck and a drake : Two systems of circles a moment were seen, And the stream smoothed them off, as they never had been. Gwenwynwyn regained, and uplifted his voice : " Oh friar, gray friar, full rash was thy choice ; The stone, the good stone, which away thou hast thrown, Was the stone of all stones, the philosopher's stone...
第 321 頁 - Did you hear of the curate who mounted his mare, And merrily trotted along to the fair? * Of creature more tractable none ever heard ; In the height of her speed she would stop at a word; But again with a word, when the curate said, " Hey," She put forth her mettle and gallop'd away.
第 158 頁 - The sentimental against the rational, the intuitive against the inductive, the ornamental against the useful, the intense against the tranquil, the romantic against the classical; these are great and interesting controversies, which I should like, before I die, to see satisfactorily settled.
第 152 頁 - I am out of all patience with this march of mind. Here has my house been nearly burned down, by my cook taking it into her head to study hydrostatics, in a sixpenny tract, published by the Steam Intellect Society, and written by a learned friend who is for doing all the world's business as well as his own, and is equally well qualified to handle every branch of human knowledge.
第 321 頁 - was a creature so rare, So docile, so true, as my excellent mare; Lo, here now I stand," and he gazed all around, "As safe and as steady as if on the ground; Yet how had it been, if some traveller...
第 321 頁 - He shrunk from the thorns, though he long'd for the fruit ; With a word he arrested his courser's keen speed, And he stood up erect on the back of his steed ; On the saddle he stood while the creature stood still, And he gather'd the fruit till he took his good fill.

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