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...d her sail and sped away, The rolling surge her restless home, Her incense wreaths the showering spray. Far out, and where the riot waves Run mingling... ...od-stridden courser, T ossing high its foamy mane. 46 Then he swims thro’ laurelled sunlight, Full of all sensations sweet, Misty with his morning in... ...r, Lo, the tall Peneian virgin Stands beneath her bathing bower. There the laurell’ d wreaths o’erarching Crown’ d the dainty shuddering maid; There t... ...tall Peneian virgin Stands beneath her bathing bower. There the laurell’ d wreaths o’erarching Crown’ d the dainty shuddering maid; There the dark pro... ... o’erarching Crown’ d the dainty shuddering maid; There the dark prophetic laurel Kiss’d her with its sister shade. There the young green glistening l... ...bids him weep and stop. – He above each drop of crimson Shadowing—like the laurel leaf That above himself will shadow – Sheds a fadeless look of grief... ...t limbs drag and twine; Round her waist with languorous tendrils Reels and wreathes the juicy vine; Reining in the flying creature With its arms about... ...the verge of life,—then flee! All the white ambrosial beauty Is a lustrous Laurel T ree! Still with the great panting love-chase All its running sap i... ...he paths of men Grey error steams as from a fen; As o’er this flaring City wreathes The black cloud-vapour that it breathes! 58 This night from which...

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...and we fancy in the gloom that they are sages. And many a man sets a great wreath about his pate and struts abroad a hero, whose claims we would all o... ...occasion the mayor of Cherbourg deposited, in the name of his town, a gold laurel branch upon the coffin—which was saluted by the forts and dykes of t... ...d of shabby fountain or pump, a bust of Lafayette, crowned with some dirty wreaths of “immor- tals,” and looking down at the little streamlet which oc... ... very old, sad, and gray-headed. I have seen a poor mother buy a halfpenny wreath at the gate of Montmartre burying-ground, and go with it to her litt... ...tues LOOKED like marble. At some distance, you could not tell but that the wreaths and eagles were gold em- broidery, and not gilt paper—the great tri... ... in all his glory, forsooth—Imperial Caesar, with his crown over his head, laurels and standards waving about his gor- geous chariot, and a million of... ...que shape, which supported a basement adorned with golden eagles, banners, laurels, and velvet hangings. Above the hangings stand twelve golden statue... ...e, was hung with violet; beyond this with black. We saw N’s, eagles, bees, laurel wreaths, and other such imperial emblems, adorning every nook and co... ...hung with violet; beyond this with black. We saw N’s, eagles, bees, laurel wreaths, and other such imperial emblems, adorning every nook and corner of...

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...e fountain at the source; Approach those masters, o’er whose tomb Immortal laurels ever bloom: 62 Marmion Instructive of the feebler bard, Still from... ...e father of the fight, Who snatched, on Alexandria’s sand, The conqueror’s wreath with dying hand. “Or, if to touch such chord be thine, Restore th... ...th his dogs repine; Whistling and cheering them to aid, Around his back he wreathes the plaid: His flock he gathers, and he guides, T o open downs, an... ...ted ray. 113 Sir Walter Scott XXVII. Thin curling in the morning air, The wreaths of failing smoke declare, To embers now the brands decayed, Where t... ...the distant city glow With gloomy splendour red; For on the smoke-wreaths, huge and slow, That round her sable turrets flow, The mor... ...t deep in shade; There on their brows the moonbeam broke Through the faint wreaths of silvery smoke, And on the casements played. And other ligh...

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...st Thames’s shores, &c. VER. 61-68 Originally thus in the MS.— Go, flowery wreath, and let my Sylvia know, Compared to thine how bright her beauties s... ... a silent shower. Accept, O Garth 9 the Muse’s early lays, That adds this wreath of ivy to thy bays; 10 Hear what from love ... ...est flowers design, And in one garland all their beauties join; Accept the wreath which you deserve alone, In whom all beauties are comprised in one. ... ...spring to light, auspicious Babe, be born! See, Nature hastes her earliest wreaths to bring, With all the incense of the breathing spring! See lofty L... ...ns Plato fired, And Epicurus’ lay inspired; In vain your guiltless laurels stood Unspotted long with human blood. War, horrid war, your th... ...blossom promise more. There in bright drops the crystal fountains play, By laurels shielded from the piercing day: Where Daphne, now a tree, as once a... ... roofs of fretted gold: Raised on a thousand pillars, wreathed around With laurel foliage, and with eagles crown’d: 140 Of bright, t... ...the flaming mine? 10 T wined with the wreaths Parnassian laurels yield, Or reap’d in iron harvests of the field? Where grows?—where ... ...atness equal ran, And all that raised the hero, sunk the man: Now Europe’s laurels on their brows behold, But stain’d with blood, or ill exchanged for...

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...ighting is done at all, perhaps the Press will incidentally toss a leaf of laurel on a name or two: thus in the exercise of grumbling doing good. With... ... put the vision of the whole business aside by talking of Nevil’s ba- nana-wreath. He desired to have Nevil out of it. He and Cecil handed Nevil in hi... ...e desired to have Nevil out of it. He and Cecil handed Nevil in his banana-wreath about to their friends. Nevil, in his banana-wreath, was set preachi... ... hours after landing. I believe he was on his way to the Halketts at Mount Laurels. A notorious old rascal revolutionist retired from his licenced bus... ...tated him to have gone to call on Colonel Halkett, a new resident at Mount Laurels, on the Otley river. He offered the welcome of his house to the lad... ...without coming to him. Rosamund suggested that he might stay late at Mount Laurels. ‘Then he will arrive here after nightfall,’ said the doctor. ‘ A b... ...s decided un- less to hunt a stray borough vote, ma’am.’ ‘He goes to Mount Laurels. ‘For that purpose.’ ‘I do not think he will persuade Colonel Halke... ...H Mr. Everard Romfrey may have laughed at Nevil Beauchamp with his ‘banana-wreath,’ he liked the fel- low for having volunteered for that African coas... ... to heaven: a moveless and possessing mist. It left space overhead for one wreath of high cloud mixed with touches of washed red upon moist blue, stil...

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...hat I err’ d in, what corrected, What I suffer’ d, what effected, T o this wreath as flow’rs belong; For the aged, and the youthful, And the vicious, ... ...ought else I crave,—not e’en a kiss. With what a soul her mind is fraught, Wreath’ d round with charms unceasingly! She’s perfect,—and she fails in no... ...ns, whose might Has vanquished war’s alarms. Who proudly hastens here With wreath-encircled brow? ’Tis like our child so dear Thus Charles comes homew... ...e. And ev’ry one makes haste T o join the dance with glee; While thou with wreaths hast graced The youngest children three. T o sound of flute and hor... ...re soft winds greet us from the azure skies, Where silent myrtles, stately laurels rise, Know’st thou it well? ’Tis there, ’tis th... ...d; And so thou’rt treasured by each maid Like precious stones or gold. Thy wreath adorns the fairest face But still thou’rt not the flower whose grace... ...89.* ANACREON’S GRAVE. HERE where the roses blossom, where vines round the laurels are twining, Where the turtle-dove calls, where the blithe cricket ... ...792. THE GARLANDS. KLOPSTOCK would lead us away from Pindus; no longer for laurel May we be eager—the homely acorn alone must content us; Yet he himse... ... nation There will joyously kneel in devotion ecstatic, revering Thorn and laurel garland, and all its charms and its tortures. 1815.* 347 Goethe THE...

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...of something else to put at the begin- ning,’ said Elizabeth, ‘a branch of laurel entwined with the beautiful white bind-weed. One of our laurels was ... ...ed with the beautiful white bind-weed. One of our laurels was covered with wreaths of it last year, and I thought it was a beautiful emblem of a pure-... ... simple mind; and you know how often it is despised and torn away from the laurel to which it is so bright an ornament.’ ‘Yes,’ said Anne, ‘it clings ... ... it was a golden crown.’ ‘But there your comparison ends,’ said Anne; ‘the laurel ought to vanish away, and leave the golden wreath behind.’ ‘No,’ sai... ...n ends,’ said Anne; ‘the laurel ought to vanish away, and leave the golden wreath behind.’ ‘No,’ said Elizabeth; ‘call the golden wreath the crown of ... ... he dies, the immortality the world prizes is that of the coarse evergreen laurel, and no one dreams of his white wreath.’ ‘I wish you would make a po... ...zes is that of the coarse evergreen laurel, and no one dreams of his white wreath.’ ‘I wish you would make a poem of your comparison, for the beginnin... ...blood of the Covenanters is a blot on his escutcheon, a stain on his white wreath.’ 85 CHARLOTTE M YONGE ‘I am sorry you have nothing to say to bonni... ...t. ‘Why, Anne,’ said Elizabeth, presently after, ‘you are do- ing that old wreath over again, that you were about last year, when I was at Merton Hall...

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...nto rooms which gave Upon a pillared porch, the bases lost 13 Tennyson In laurel: her we asked of that and this, And who were tutors. ‘Lady Blanche... ...e paced, I first, and following through the porch that sang All round with laurel, issued in a court Compact of lucid marbles, bossed with lengths Of ... ... woods; The leader wildswan in among the stars Would clang it, and lapt in wreaths of glowworm light The mellow breaker murmured Ida. Now, Because I ... ...f these or those, the question settled die.’ ‘Y ea,’ answered I, ‘for this wreath of air, This flake of rainbow flying on the highest Foam of men’s de... ...e, and leave The monstrous ledges there to slope, and spill Their thousand wreaths of dangling water-smoke, That like a broken purpose waste in air: S...

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...undance of flowers, with which she would make each of her kind playmates a wreath. “O no, dear Proserpina,” cried the sea nymphs; “we dare not go with... ...efore the surf wave has broken ten times over you. I long to make you some wreaths that shall be as lovely as this necklace of many colored shells.” “... ...o rejoin the sea nymphs, and sit with them on the moist sands, all twining wreaths together. But, a little farther on, what should she behold? It was ... ... only to run a little way upon the dry land, and gather some flowers for a wreath. This was early in the day, and we have seen nothing of her since.” ... ...when they saw only a sad and anxious woman, with a torch in her hand and a wreath of withered poppies on her head, they spoke rudely, and sometimes th... ...ey know not what, and fancying that posterity will take the trouble to put laurel wreaths on their rusty and battered helmets. Could you help smiling,...

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... flame, and obscurely discovered shapes and visages of horror on the smoke wreaths above the impi ous assembly. At the same moment the fire on the ro... ...s own dead father beckoned him to ad vance, looking downward from a smoke wreath, while a woman, with dim features of despair, threw out her hand to ... ...ed on high, using whatever means of ascent was offered them. One plant had wreathed itself round a statue of Vertumnus, which was thus quite veiled an... ...ped forth, and, forcing himself through the entangle ment of a shrub that wreathed its tendrils over the hidden entrance, stood beneath his own windo... ...s, and visions of faces horribly grotesque, into which the smoke seemed to wreathe itself, and had heard the awful murmurs, and shrieks, and deep, shu... ... as to be utterly worthless. In one shop there were a great many crowns of laurel and myrtle, which sol diers, authors, statesmen, and various other ... ...s could vindicate; writers, actors, painters, the pets of a day, but whose laurels wither unrenewed amid their hoary hair; politicians, whom some mali...

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...t last have grown To deem as a most logical conclusion, That Poesy has wreaths for you alone: There is a narrowness in such a notion, Which ... ...sent days Is not the certain path to future praise. He that reserves his laurels for posterity (Who does not often claim the bright reversion)... ... heaven Described by Mahomet, and Anacreon Moore, To whom the lyre and laurels have been given, With all the trophies of triumphant song ... ...r their double damn’d post obits. ‘T is sweet to win, no matter how, one’s laurels, By blood or ink; ‘t is sweet to put an end To strife; ‘t i... ...ime, they ‘ll doubtless please to recollect My epical pretensions to the laurel: For fear some prudish readers should grow skittish, I ‘ve bri... ...ke the depth of ocean when at rest, Fair as the crowning rose of the whole wreath, Soft as the callow cygnet in its nest; In short, he was a v... ... sun, Thought daily service was her only mission, Bringing warm water, wreathing her long tresses, And asking now and then for cast off dresse... ... Which makes it fatal to be loved? Ah, why With cypress branches hast thou Wreathed thy bowers, And made thy best interpreter a sigh? As those... ...alm in grief. Oh, foolish mortals! Always taught in vain! Oh, glorious laurel! since for one sole leaf Of thine imaginary deathless tree, Of...

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...affold bloom, _565 Mingling with freedom’s fadeless laurels there, And presaging the truth of visioned bliss. Are there not hop... ...cked _55 With weeping flowers, or votive cypress wreath, The lone couch of his everlasting sleep:— Gentle, and brave, and ge... ...waste deep; T wilight, ascending slowly from the east, Entwined in duskier wreaths her braided locks O’er the fair front and radiant eyes of day; Nigh... ... monstrous sight! For in the air do I behold indeed An Eagle and a Serpent wreathed in fight:— And now, relaxing its impetuous flight, Before the aeri... ...eager head, with beak 70 V olume One And talon unremittingly assailed The wreathed Serpent, who did ever seek _215 Upon ... ... _275 Paused not, its lustre hung: she watching aye The foam-wreaths which the faint tide wove below Upon the spangled sands, groaned he... ...a pearl in the pale flowers _10 Of the green laurel, blown anew, And bends, and then fades silently, One frail and fair ... ... _25 Considering and retouching Peter Bell; Watering his laurels with the killing tears Of slow, dull care, so that their roots to H... ...m of a pointless nothing! _10 Thou to whom Kings and laurelled Emperors, Radical-butchers, Paper-money-millers, Bishops and Deac...

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...y walk In the woods, and weep, and quarrel, Staring past the pink wild laurel, Mix me with your talk, Do not let me die! Farmers at your raking,... ...r of gravel Stamp upon your spade! Many a rose shall ravel, Many a metal wreath shall rust In the rain, and I go singing Through the lots where ... ...ewhere your sister’s body lies in death, So I may follow there, and make a wreath Of my locked hands, that on her quiet breast Shall lie till age has ... ...stened; do your weeping now. Sing whatever songs are sung, Wind whatever wreath, For a playmate perished young, For a spirit spent in death. Boys an...

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...ertain brightly painted china plate, whose bird of paradise, nestling in a wreath of convolvuli and rose- buds, had been wont to stir in me a most ent... ...rds picking at ripe cherries, of wren’s nests enclos- ing pearl-like eggs, wreathed about with young ivy sprays. I examined, too, in thought, the poss... ...r the glassiness of despair, alone were visible. Above the temples, amidst wreathed turban folds of black drapery, vague in its character and consiste... ... it could be gathered, replaced the brown frock she had previously worn; a wreath of rosebuds circled her forehead; her feet were dressed in silk stoc... ...e; its sole separation from lonely fields: a winding walk, bor- dered with laurels and terminating in a giant horse-chestnut, circled at the base by a... ...ind was uncon- scious and quiet. “Jane,” he recommenced, as we entered the laurel walk, and slowly strayed down in the direction of the sunk fence and... ... over-excited: I will be still too.” A waft of wind came sweeping down the laurel-walk, and trembled through the boughs of the chestnut: it wandered a... ... ailed the chestnut tree? it writhed and groaned; while wind roared in the laurel walk, and came sweeping over us. “We must go in,” said Mr. Rochester... ...d to the measureless air- torrent thundering through space. Descending the laurel walk, I faced the wreck of the chestnut-tree; it stood up black and ...

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... he him- self, girding his clothes about him, and crowning his head with a laurel-garland, his hair gracefully flowing, carried the trophy resting ere... ...ptain of a galley, who cut down its ensign, and dedicated it to Apollo the Laurel-crowned. And as the Persians fought in a narrow arm of the sea, and ... ...of oak for that pur- 358 V olume One pose; or, finally, whether the oaken wreath, being sacred to Jupiter, the guardian of the city, might, therefore... ... conflicts in those days, there was not one from which he returned without laurels and rewards. And, whereas others made glory the end of their daring... ...victors in the Isthmian games, accounting chap- lets of parsley the sacred wreath proper to their country; pars- ley being at that time still the embl... ...at triumph to their tents, which were set out with lights, and decked with wreaths of ivy and laurel. But the general himself was in great grief. Of t... ... tents, which were set out with lights, and decked with wreaths of ivy and laurel. But the general himself was in great grief. Of the two sons that se... ...f power), dressed in a robe of purple, interwoven with gold, and holding a laurel branch in his right hand. All the army, in like manner, with boughs ... ...ed their arms and shouted, the officers again crowned Marius with a laurel-wreath, and he thus set fire to the pile, and finished his sacrifice. But w...

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..................................................... 210 FRAGMENT: THE FALSE LAUREL AND THE TRUE. ......................................................... ... SP THIRD SP THIRD SPIRIT IRIT IRIT IRIT IRIT: : : : : Peace! the abyss is wreathed with scorn At your presumption, atom-born! What is Heaven? and wha... ...oil of Heaven did rise, Wrapped in sweet wild melodies— Like an exhalation wreathing _5 To the sound of air ... ... _15 As in the sculptor’s thought; and there The wreaths of stony myrtle, ivy, and pine, Like winter leaves o’ergrown by mou... ...sil and mignonette? Embleming love and health, which never yet In the same wreath might be. Alas, and they are wet! ... ...Works”, 1839, 1st edition. ‘What art thou, Presumptuous, who profanest The wreath to mighty poets only due, Even whilst like a forgotten moon thou wan... ...ew: One of the crowd thou art without a name.’ ‘Ah, friend, ’tis the false laurel that I wear; Bright though it seem, it is not the same As that which...

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...’s glass (it was a black-velvet bonnet, trimmed with sham lace, and with a wreath of nasturtiums, convolvuluses, and wall- flowers within), and then s... ...verywhere as the great rising genius of the day, bade Catalani look to her laurels, and questioned whether Miss Stephens could sing a ballad like his ... ...three times after the play; and somehow there is sure to be someone with a laurel-wreath in a stage-box, who flings that chaplet at the inspired artis... ...imes after the play; and somehow there is sure to be someone with a laurel-wreath in a stage-box, who flings that chaplet at the inspired artist’s fee... ...is rather scarce, and worn in bandeaux, and she commonly mounts a sprig of laurel, or a dark flower or two, which with the sham tour—I believe that is...

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...verse it undefiled, unless, like Dante, he is protected by Virgil’s sacred laurel.” But the more the set of friends opposed the idea of journal- ism, ... ...e opera house the petals trace For modesty a fitting aureole; An alabaster wreath to lay, methought, In dusky hair o’er some fair woman’s face Which k... ...re waste; for it often happens that you put forth all your strength to win laurels for a man whom you despise, and maintain, in spite of yourself, tha... ..., Vignol reappeared between the two ac- tresses; Matifat and Camusot flung wreaths on the stage, and Coralie stooped for her flowers and held them out...

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..., Rank of the putrefaction ere decayed, In impious singles bear the thorny wreaths: Their lives are where harmonious Pleasure breathes For couples cro... ... pear and plum, Free of the cloud, beneath the flood of gold. Crowned with wreaths that burn in dew, Her couples whirl, sun-satiated, Athirst for shad... ... funeral tone. And doth the man pursue a tightened zone, Then be it as the Laurel God he runs, Confirmed to win, with countenance the Sun’s. Should pi... ...and insensibly devoured; In whom the city over forest flowered, The forest wreathed the city’s drama-mart. XXVII. There found he in new form that Drag...

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... Adventures of Sherlock Holmes a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded laurel bushes made a hard fight against a smoke laden and uncongenial at... ...or, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with the thick blue cloud wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of infinite languor in his face... ...rossed it, and were about to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted ch... ...oor a wedding dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin shoes and a bride’s wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked in water. “There,” said he,... ...he opposing windows loomed like dark, shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of ch...