Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volumen 1Phillips, Sampson,, 1854 - 432 páginas |
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Página iv
... English reader is requested to bear in mind that the book has not been prepared in reference to an Eng- lish but an American public , and to make due allowance for that fact . It would have placed the writer far more at ease had there ...
... English reader is requested to bear in mind that the book has not been prepared in reference to an Eng- lish but an American public , and to make due allowance for that fact . It would have placed the writer far more at ease had there ...
Página xv
... English Christians , and of Christendom itself , on this point , there is reason to fear that the proslavery power of the United States would have succeeded in putting the book under foot . Therefore it is peculiarly gratifying that so ...
... English Christians , and of Christendom itself , on this point , there is reason to fear that the proslavery power of the United States would have succeeded in putting the book under foot . Therefore it is peculiarly gratifying that so ...
Página xvi
... English ladies , which , like your own , shrinks instinctively from unnecessary publicity , has devolved on me , as one of the trustees of the Liverpool Association , the gratifying office of tendering to you , at their request , a ...
... English ladies , which , like your own , shrinks instinctively from unnecessary publicity , has devolved on me , as one of the trustees of the Liverpool Association , the gratifying office of tendering to you , at their request , a ...
Página xviii
... English shores . Just when I had begun to realize that a whole wide ocean lay between me and all that is dearest to me , I found most unexpectedly a home and friends waiting to receive me here . I have had not an hour in which to know ...
... English shores . Just when I had begun to realize that a whole wide ocean lay between me and all that is dearest to me , I found most unexpectedly a home and friends waiting to receive me here . I have had not an hour in which to know ...
Página xxxii
... English language , but that she has improved us as men and as Christians , that she has taught us the value of our privileges , and made us more sensible than we were before of the obligation which lies upon us to promote every good ...
... English language , but that she has improved us as men and as Christians , that she has taught us the value of our privileges , and made us more sensible than we were before of the obligation which lies upon us to promote every good ...
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Página 180 - And glimmered all the dead men's mail. Blazed battlement and pinnet high, Blazed every rose-carved buttress fair — So still they blaze, when fate is nigh The lordly line of high St. Clair.
Página 27 - I THANK the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smiled, And made me, in these Christian days, A happy English child.
Página 199 - Philomel, with melody Sing in our sweet lullaby; Lulla, lulla, lullaby ; lulla, lulla, lullaby ; Never harm, nor spell nor charm, Come our lovely lady nigh; So, good night, with lullaby.
Página 129 - CALL it not vain ¡—they do not err, Who say, that when the Poet dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies : Who say, tall cliff, and cavern lone, For the departed Bard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal rill ; That flowers in tears of balm distil ; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks, in deeper groan, reply; And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave.
Página 44 - And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures ; Russet lawns and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray ; Mountains, on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest ; Meadows trim with daisies <pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide : Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighbouring eyes.
Página 72 - The bridegroom may forget the bride Was made his wedded wife yestreen ; The monarch may forget the crown ' That on his head an hour has been ; The mother may forget the child That smiles sae sweetly on her knee ; But I'll remember thee, Glencairn, And a' that thou hast done for me ! " LINES, SENT TO SIR JOHN WHITEFORD, OF WHITEFORD, BART.
Página 209 - The finch, the sparrow, and the lark, The plain-song cuckoo gray, Whose note full many a man doth mark, And dares not answer, nay...
Página liv - The power of the master must be absolute, to render the submission of the slave perfect.
Página 140 - And for evermore that lady wore A covering on her wrist. There is a nun in Dryburgh bower, Ne'er looks upon the sun ; There is a monk in Melrose tower, He speaketh word to none. That nun, who ne'er beholds the day, That monk, who speaks to none — That nun was Smaylho'me's Lady gay, That monk the bold Baron.
Página liii - When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.