First Impressions of England and Its PeopleJ. Johnstone, 1847 - 411 páginas |
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... seem as if the same change which has abridged the area of the country had given condensation to its history . We are not only travelling , but also , as a people , living fast ; and see revolutions which were formerly the slow work of ...
... seem as if the same change which has abridged the area of the country had given condensation to its history . We are not only travelling , but also , as a people , living fast ; and see revolutions which were formerly the slow work of ...
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... seems but rational to indulge in the same sort of reasonings regarding them . They are the fossils of an extinct order of things , newer than the Tertiary , -of an extinct race , -of an extinct religion , -of a state of society and a ...
... seems but rational to indulge in the same sort of reasonings regarding them . They are the fossils of an extinct order of things , newer than the Tertiary , -of an extinct race , -of an extinct religion , -of a state of society and a ...
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... for forming an adequate es- timate of his character , which , by the way , seems to have been not at all the character drawn by Bulwer . Knaresborough , the scene of Aram's crime , may be seen from 28 FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF.
... for forming an adequate es- timate of his character , which , by the way , seems to have been not at all the character drawn by Bulwer . Knaresborough , the scene of Aram's crime , may be seen from 28 FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF.
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... seems not to have been the high heroic cha- racter conceived by the novelist , —not a hero of tragedy at all , nor a ... seem wholly unable to appreciate their true place and work , or the real dignity of their standing , and so are ...
... seems not to have been the high heroic cha- racter conceived by the novelist , —not a hero of tragedy at all , nor a ... seem wholly unable to appreciate their true place and work , or the real dignity of their standing , and so are ...
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... seems a curious enough circumstance , that in this mechanical age , so famous for the ingenuity and niceness of its machines , no effort of the me- chanician has as yet enabled him to supersede , or even to rival , this delicate machine ...
... seems a curious enough circumstance , that in this mechanical age , so famous for the ingenuity and niceness of its machines , no effort of the me- chanician has as yet enabled him to supersede , or even to rival , this delicate machine ...
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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.