United States or Estonia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"Like skeletons in some Dance of Death!" he exclaimed. "We shall be hideous in each other's sight." "McLean, I am a bride," said his wife, not heeding the late misanthropy; "Helen is a girl; the ghost of the prior Mrs. Purcell shall be rediviva; and Katy there" "Wait a bit, Kate," said her cousin.
It contains "The Retreat," a poem of about 30 lines which manifestly suggested to Wordsworth his Ode on the Intimations of Immortality, and "Beyond the Veil," one of the finest meditative poems in the language. The two brothers were joint authors of Thalia Rediviva: the Pastimes and Diversions of a Country Muse , a collection of translations and original poems.
This is certainly a fact not generally known to those who use Parasols too recklessly. "Poesis Rediviva," by John Collop, M.D. , mentions Umbrellas. Michael Drayton, writing about 1620, speaks of a pair of doves, which are to watch over the person addressed in his verses:
Oh, I have had such a race!" "Why did you come back before you had found them?" "Aunt, it was going to rain; and it is raining now, hard." "She does not mind that." "Zoe? Oh, she has got nothing on!" "Bless me!" cried Vizard. "Godiva rediviva." "Now, Harrington, don't! Of course, I mean nothing to spoil; only her purple alpaca, and that is two years old.
Carlyle's "Life and Letters of Cromwell," an invaluable store of documents, edited with the care of an antiquarian and the genius of a poet. Fairfax may be studied in the "Fairfax Correspondence," and in the documents embodied in Mr. Clements Markham's life of him. Sprigge's "Anglia Rediviva" gives an account of the New Model and its doings.
MADAM, Your Majesty's most humble, And most obedient subject and servant, JOHN DRYDEN. See the Introduction to "Britannia Rediviva," Vol. X. p. 285. Having already presented you with the Life of St Ignatius, I thought myself obliged to give you that of St Francis Xavier.
I had occasion three years ago to reprint "The Emperor of Elam" in an earlier volume of this series, and it still seems to be worthy to set beside the best of Gautier. There are other stories in the present collection with the same rich background, but I should like to call particular attention to Mr. Dwight's two masterpieces, "Henrietta Stackpole Rediviva" and "Behind the Door."
Word Of The Day