Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volumen 1Phillips, Sampson,, 1854 - 432 páginas |
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... a quarter of an hour , upright as a palm tree , his back squared against the rails , pretending to be reading a paper ; but a dismal look of disgust is settling down about his lips ; the SUNNY MEMORIES OF FOREIGN LANDS . 3.
... a quarter of an hour , upright as a palm tree , his back squared against the rails , pretending to be reading a paper ; but a dismal look of disgust is settling down about his lips ; the SUNNY MEMORIES OF FOREIGN LANDS . 3.
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... tree in the centre . Here in England , I think , they have vegetable creations made on purpose to go with old , dusky buildings ; and this yew tree is one of them . It has altogether a most goblin - like , bewitched air , with its dusky ...
... tree in the centre . Here in England , I think , they have vegetable creations made on purpose to go with old , dusky buildings ; and this yew tree is one of them . It has altogether a most goblin - like , bewitched air , with its dusky ...
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... tree ought to be thinking of dying , they only take another twist , and so live on another hundred years . I saw some in England seven hundred years old , and they had grown queerer every century . It is a species of evergreen , and its ...
... tree ought to be thinking of dying , they only take another twist , and so live on another hundred years . I saw some in England seven hundred years old , and they had grown queerer every century . It is a species of evergreen , and its ...
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... trees . " Now , these hedge - row elms . I had never even asked myself what they were till I saw them ; but you know , as I said in a former letter , the hedges are not all of them carefully cut ; in fact many of them are only irregular ...
... trees . " Now , these hedge - row elms . I had never even asked myself what they were till I saw them ; but you know , as I said in a former letter , the hedges are not all of them carefully cut ; in fact many of them are only irregular ...
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... trees are often set out , particularly elms , and have a very pleasing effect . Then , too , the trees have more of that rounding outline which is expressed by the word " bosomed . " But here we are , right under the walls of Lancaster ...
... trees are often set out , particularly elms , and have a very pleasing effect . Then , too , the trees have more of that rounding outline which is expressed by the word " bosomed . " But here we are , right under the walls of Lancaster ...
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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.