First Impressions of England and Its PeopleJ. Johnstone, 1847 - 411 páginas |
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Página vii
... scarce less decidedly enveloped in the still thickening ecclesiastical element than our ancestors of the sixteenth century . If there be less of personal adventure in the England of the present day than in that of Queen Anne and the two ...
... scarce less decidedly enveloped in the still thickening ecclesiastical element than our ancestors of the sixteenth century . If there be less of personal adventure in the England of the present day than in that of Queen Anne and the two ...
Página viii
... scarce a change that can come over opinion , or affect the people in even their purely physical concerns , which does not more or less fully index itself in the statute - book . The autumn of 1845 , in which I travelled over England ...
... scarce a change that can come over opinion , or affect the people in even their purely physical concerns , which does not more or less fully index itself in the statute - book . The autumn of 1845 , in which I travelled over England ...
Página ix
... scarce any personal anecdote or adven- ture they here and there record a brief dialogue by the way - side , or in some humble lodging - house , and here and there a solitary stroll through a wood , or a thoughtful lounge in a quarry ...
... scarce any personal anecdote or adven- ture they here and there record a brief dialogue by the way - side , or in some humble lodging - house , and here and there a solitary stroll through a wood , or a thoughtful lounge in a quarry ...
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... scarce health and strength enough left me to carry me in quest of more . I could no longer undertake , as formerly , long journeys a - foot in a wild country ; nor scramble , with sure step , and head that never failed , along the faces ...
... scarce health and strength enough left me to carry me in quest of more . I could no longer undertake , as formerly , long journeys a - foot in a wild country ; nor scramble , with sure step , and head that never failed , along the faces ...
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... scarce realize the fact , that the little gray parish church with the square tower , which we had just pass- ed , was a church in which a curate read the Prayer - Book every Sunday , and that I had left behind me the Scottish law ...
... scarce realize the fact , that the little gray parish church with the square tower , which we had just pass- ed , was a church in which a curate read the Prayer - Book every Sunday , and that I had left behind me the Scottish law ...
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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.