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In Memoriam

By: Alfred, Lord Tennyson

...So draw him home to those that mourn 5 In vain; a favourable speed Ruffle thy mirror’d mast, and lead Thro’ prosperous floods his holy urn. All night no... ...ht of nerves without a mind, And leave the cliffs, and haste away O’er ocean mirrors rounded large, And reach the glow of southern skies, 10 And see t...

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The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

By: Thomas Hutchinson

.... _135 Its broad and silent mirror gave to view The pale and waning stars, The chariot’s fiery track, A... ...0 Of azure sky, darting between their chasms; Nor aught else in the liquid mirror laves Its portraiture, but some inconstant star Between one foliaged... ... _390 In all resorts of men—invisible, 74 V olume One But when, in ebon mirror, Nightmare fell T o tyrant or impostor bids them rise, Black winged ... ...— _1680 It might resemble her—it once had been The mirror of her thoughts, and still the grace Which her mind’s shadow cast, l... ...e Form he saw and worshipped was his own, His likeness in the world’s vast mirror shown; And ‘twere an innocent dream, but that a faith Nursed by fear...

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The Poems of Goethe Translated in the Original Metres

By: Edgar Alfred Bowring

.............................................................. 344 THE MUSE’S MIRROR. ...................................................................... ... shady creek lightly Morning zephyrs awake, And the ripen’d fruit brightly Mirrors itself in the lake. 1775. 73 Goethe From the Mountain. [Written ju... ...bank o’erflow. And with ever restless motion Moves the verdure to and fro, Mirror’d brightly far below. What is now the foliage moving? Air is still, ... ...rah and Sodom’s awful destruction, The twelve illustrious women, too, That mirror of honour brought to view; All kinds of bloodthirstiness, murder, an... ... as they may, Yet a heap of dead is ne’er form’d. * WHAT harm has thy poor mirror done, alas? Look not so ugly, prythee, in the glass! 1815.* 332 Goe...

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Love and Life an Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...re, silver and ivory boxes, and other apparatus, and an exquisite Venetian mirror with the borders of frosted silver work. 188 Love and Life Not far ... ...mposing fabric of powder, flower, and feather upon her head. A little hand-mirror, framed in carved ivory inlaid with coral, and a fan, lay on a tiny ...

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The Divine Comedy Volume 3 Paradise

By: Dante Aligheri

...s not through the whole substance of the moon. 12 Norton shalt take three mirrors, and set two of them at an equal dis- tance from thee, and let the ... ..., cause a light to be placed behind thy back, which may illumine the three mirrors, and return to thee thrown back front all. Although the more distan... ...us conceived the image to be a true face; Dante takes the real faces to be mirrored semblances. 14 Norton “at thy puerile thought, since thy foot tru... ...3 and such gifts will be conformed to the living of the country. Above are mirrors, ye call them Thrones, 14 wherefrom God shines on us in his judgme... ...them is intrined, through Its own bounty collects Its radiance, as it were mirrored, in nine subsistences, Itself eternally remaining one. Thence It d...

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The Divine Comedy of Dante

By: H. F. Cary

...ds and huge, that turns His shoulders towards Damiata, and at Rome As in his mirror looks. Of finest gold His head is shap’d, pure silver are the brea... ...ains rack thy head, no urging would’st thou need To make thee lap Narcissus’ mirror up.” I was all fix’d to listen, when my guide Admonish’d: “N... ...f Dante Purgatory 137 “Were Leda’s offspring now in company Of that broad mirror, that high up and low Imparts his light beneath, thou might’st beh... ... The lowest stair was marble white so smooth And polish’d, that therein my mirror’d form Distinct I saw. The next of hue more dark Than sablest grai... ...e diminish’d orb. As when the ray, Striking On water or the surface clear Of mirror, leaps unto the opposite part, Ascending at a glance, e’en as it f...

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The Divine Comedy

By: Dante Aligheri

...s shoulders turned tow’rds Damietta, And looks at Rome as if it were his mirror. His head is fashioned of refined gold, And of pure silver are the... ...uff me Thou hast the burning and the head that aches, And to lick up the mirror of Narcissus Thou wouldst not want words many to invite thee.” In ... ...t both his ears, still with his visage downward, Said: “Why dost thou so mirror thyself in us? If thou desire to know who these two are, The valle... ...ereon he said to me: “If Castor and Pollux Were in the company of yonder mirror, That up and down conducteth with its light, Thou wouldst behold t... ...ch; and the first stair Was marble white, so polished and so smooth, I mirrored myself therein as I appear. The second, tinct of deeper hue than p...

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The Divine Comedy of Dante

By: Alighieri, Dante, 1265-1321

...d. Whence he thus to me: “Were Leda’s offspring now in company Of that broad mirror, that high up and low Imparts his light beneath, thou might’st beh... ... The lowest stair was marble white so smooth And polish’d, that therein my mirror’d form Distinct I saw. The next of hue more dark Than sablest grai... ...e Comedy of Dante Purgatory 42 Striking On water or the surface clear Of mirror, leaps unto the opposite part, Ascending at a glance, e’en as it f... ...that bliss Are multiplied, more good is there to love, And more is lov’d; as mirrors, that reflect, Each unto other, propagated light. If these my wor... ...res consm’d, This would not trouble thee: and hadst thou thought, How in the mirror your reflected form With mimic motion vibrates, what now seems Har...

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Hermann and Dorothea

By: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

...et lying; Thrown in the kneading-trough lay the bed, and the sheets on the mirror. Danger, alas! as we learned ourselves in our great conflagration T ... ...ir image reflected, Friendly greetings and nods exchanged in the quivering mirror. 79 Goethe “Give me to drink,” the youth thereupon in his gladness ... ...ead in thine eyes of nothing but kindness, As from the fountain’s tranquil mirror thou gavest me greeting. Might I but bring thee home, the half of my...

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The Divine Comedy Volume 2 Purgatory [Purgatorio]

By: Dante Aligheri

...ering. Whereupon he to me, “If Castor and Pollux were in company with that mirror 6 which up and down guides with its light, thou wouldst see the rud... ...he first great stair; it was of white marble so polished and smooth that I mirrored myself in it as I appear. The second, of deeper hue than perse, wa... ...r that lessens the excess of what is seen. As when from water, or from the mirror, the ray leaps to the opposite quarter, and, mounting up in like man... ...the more there are for loving well, and the more love is there, and like a mirror one reflects to the other. And if my dis- course appease not thy hun... ...if thou hadst thought, how at your quivering your image quivers within the mirror, that which seems hard would seem easy to thee. But that thou mayst ...

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Phaedrus

By: Plato

...s to have caught the infection of blind ness from another; the lover is his mirror in whom he is beholding himself, but he is not aware of this. When...

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Paradise Lost

By: John Milton

...st, or in a Lake, That to the fringed Bank with Myrtle crownd, Her chrystall mirror holds, unite thir streams. The Birds thir quire apply; aires, vern... ...eet influence: less bright the Moon, But opposite in leveld West was set His mirror, with full face borrowing her Light From him, for other light she ...

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Paradise Lost

By: John Milton

...or in a Lake, That to the fringed Bank with Myrtle crownd, Her chrystall mirror holds, unite thir streams. - 67 - BOOK IV. Milton: Paradise Lost... ...luence: less bright the Moon, 375 But opposite in leveld West was set His mirror, with full face borrowing her Light From him, for other light sh...

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