First Impressions of England and Its PeopleJ. Johnstone, 1847 - 411 páginas |
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... centuries . From the Reformation to the Revolution , the ecclesiastical reigned paramount in men's minds : from the Revolution to the breaking out of the first American war , -a quiet time in the main , -Go- vernments managed their ...
... centuries . From the Reformation to the Revolution , the ecclesiastical reigned paramount in men's minds : from the Revolution to the breaking out of the first American war , -a quiet time in the main , -Go- vernments managed their ...
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... century . If there be less of personal adventure in the England of the present day than in that of Queen Anne and the two first Georges , there is , as if to make amends , greatly more of incident in the history of the masses . It has ...
... century . If there be less of personal adventure in the England of the present day than in that of Queen Anne and the two first Georges , there is , as if to make amends , greatly more of incident in the history of the masses . It has ...
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... Century ago . - Competition of the Scotch Nailers ; unsuccessful , and why . - Samuel Salt , the Hales Owen Poet . - Village Church . - Salt - works at Droitwich ; their great Antiquity . - Appearance of the Village . - Problem fur ...
... Century ago . - Competition of the Scotch Nailers ; unsuccessful , and why . - Samuel Salt , the Hales Owen Poet . - Village Church . - Salt - works at Droitwich ; their great Antiquity . - Appearance of the Village . - Problem fur ...
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... centuries ago into the rude semblance of a human figure ; but the compact mass , unfaithful to its charge , had resigned all save the general outline ; the face was worn smooth , and only a few nearly obliterated ridges remained , to ...
... centuries ago into the rude semblance of a human figure ; but the compact mass , unfaithful to its charge , had resigned all save the general outline ; the face was worn smooth , and only a few nearly obliterated ridges remained , to ...
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... centuries of the past and the centuries of the future , all conspired to render the interior of York Minster one of the most impressive objects I had ever seen . Johnson singles out Congreve's description of a similar pile as one of the ...
... centuries of the past and the centuries of the future , all conspired to render the interior of York Minster one of the most impressive objects I had ever seen . Johnson singles out Congreve's description of a similar pile as one of the ...
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Página 253 - First, I commend my soul into the hands of God my creator, hoping, and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting; and my body to the earth whereof it is made.
Página 345 - Tis a note of enchantment ; what ails her ? She sees A mountain ascending, a vision of trees; Bright volumes of vapour through Lothbury glide, And a river flows on through the vale of Cheapside.
Página 309 - And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi. And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
Página 274 - Within the twilight of their distant shades; There, lost behind a rising ground, the wood Seems sunk, and shortened to its topmost boughs. No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar; paler some.
Página 51 - mid th' unrustling reed, At those mirk hours the wily monster lies, And listens oft to hear the passing steed, And frequent round him rolls his sullen eyes, If chance his savage wrath may some weak wretch surprise.
Página 211 - Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Página 273 - So strong the zeal to immortalize himself Beats in the breast of man, that e'en a few, Few transient years, won from th' abyss abhorr'd Of blank oblivion, seem a glorious prize, And even to a clown. Now roves the eye ; And, posted on this speculative height, Exults in its command. The sheepfold here Pours out its fleecy tenants o'er the glebe.
Página 309 - And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein ; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
Página 23 - Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chilness to my trembling heart.
Página 116 - Her speech was the melodious voice of Love, Her song the warbling of the vernal grove ; Her eloquence was sweeter than her song, Soft as her heart, and as her reason strong; Her form each beauty of her mind express'd, Her mind was Virtue by the Graces dress'd.