Mary Howitt: An Autobiography, المجلد 2W. Isbister, limited, 1889 |
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acquaintance afternoon ALFRED WATTS amongst Anna ANNA HARRISON Annie beautiful beloved Bishop of Argyll blessing Brixen brother Bruneck called carriage Catholic chapel Charlton charming Christian church Claude daughter dear dearest death delighted Dietenheim England English faith father feel felt flowers garden gone happy heart Hill Holy hope husband interest Italy John Cassell kind knew lady LEIGH SMITH letter living London looking Lord Margaret Marienruhe MARY HOWITT Mayr-am-Hof Meggie Meran Meteyard mind Miss morning mother mountains never night Overbeck Pen-y-Bryn Penmaenmawr picturesque pleasant poor prayer rain remember Richard Howitt Rocca di Papa Rome seemed sent Sept sister sorrow soul spirit summer Sunday sweet talk tell thankful things thou tion Tyrol Uttoxeter village Waldensian walk week wife WILLIAM HOWITT wish woman wonderful woods write yesterday young
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الصفحة 159 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks...
الصفحة 318 - I will put enmities between thee and the woman and thy seed and her seed : she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel.
الصفحة 143 - It was very curious. I think of it now like some hot, struggling dream, in which the gorgeous and fantastic forms moved slowly about. They seemed all so young and kindred to each other, that I felt as if I were out of my place, though I admired them all, and really enjoyed looking over Dante Rossetti's huge sketch-book.
الصفحة 35 - Every year their father takes them out a journey. He has had a large carriage built like an omnibus, in which they and their servants can travel, and in it, with four horses, they make long journeys. This year they were in Ireland, and next year I expect they will go into Italy. Their father dotes on them. They take with them books and sketching materials ; and they have every advantage which can be obtained for them, whether at home or abroad.
الصفحة 106 - a dangerous, bad book. He had been to the Royal Academy. He said he could not, for the soul of him, tell what to make of Holman Hunt's " Light of the World " ; whether it was good or bad he did not know. He looked at it for half an hour, and was never so puzzled by any picture before.
الصفحة 307 - Here, oft, on summer evenings, A lovely boy would rove, To play beside the image That sanctified the grove. Oft sat his mother by him, Among the shadows dim, And told how the Lord Jesus Was once a child like him.
الصفحة 28 - to use her pen for the public benefit." This, she continues, led to the production of the beautiful story of Mary Barton, the first volume of which was sent in MS. to William Howitt, as the result of his advice. "We were both delighted with it, and a few months later Mrs. Gaskell came up to London, and to our house, with the work completed.
الصفحة 73 - By the bye, some of those Americans write glorious things. I have come across some lyrics in the Philadelphia Courier, signed ' A Miner,' and written from Hazeldell, on the Schuylkill, as fine as any I know. I first met with one specimen, and was so delighted with it that I sent to Philadelphia for all the papers containing the poems from Hazeldell, cut them out and pasted them in a book with other gems of poetry.
الصفحة 73 - Rossetti forthwith produced a big book of poetry, and began reading some of the lyrics, and as he expressed the deepest obligations to the unknown writer, Allingham volunteered to call on a little American, who had asked him to do so, and try to learn from him who was the splendid poet of Hazeldell. Accordingly, Mr. Allingham went to Mr. Buchanan Read, and told him what had passed. As he proceeded, the stranger's face became crimson and his entire frame agitated. " I am the writer of these poems,"...
الصفحة 75 - Dusseldorf approached, a great gathering of all theP.RB.'stook place, to commemorate his last evening in their midst. They read aloud his poetry, made much of him, and told such capital stories that some of them rolled on the floor with laughter. But although they remained together until four or five in the morning, they could not part with him. He prolonged his stay, and as he absented himself in their company from his lodgings at Mr. Chapman's in the Strand, it was reported that the pre-Raphaelites...