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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abbey Aberdeen admiration America antislavery appeared applause beautiful called Carlisle carriage castle cathedral cause Christian church color cottage cotton Duchess of Argyle Duchess of Sutherland Duke Duke of Sutherland Dundee Earl Edinburgh Elihu Burritt England English evil expressed eyes fanciful feel flowers friends gentlemen give Glasgow hall hear heard heart honor human hundred interest Joseph Sturge kind labor ladies land letters living look Lord Carlisle lord provost Lord Shaftesbury Loud cheers meeting mind moral nation never noble Old Mortality passed picture poet poetic present religious Roslin Castle ruins Scotch Scotland Scott seemed seen sentiment Shakspeare side slave slaveholding slavery society soul speak spirit stone Stowe Sturge sympathy thing thought thousand tion told trees Uncle Tom's Cabin walked walls Warwick whole woman
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Página 121 - 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, 10 And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave.
Página 19 - 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 191 - 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 211 - 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 191 - Hark! hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes; With everything that pretty bin : My lady sweet, arise! Arise! arise!
Página 36 - 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...
Página 172 - Clair. There are twenty of Roslin's barons bold Lie buried within that proud chapelle; Each one the holy vault doth hold— But the sea holds lovely Rosabelle. And each St Clair was buried there, With candle, with book, and with knell ; But the sea-caves rung, and the wild winds sung, The dirge of lovely Rosabelle ! XXIV.
Página 149 - A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
Página 149 - The Earth goes on the Earth glittering with gold ; The Earth goes to the Earth sooner than it wold ; The Earth builds on the Earth castles and towers ; The Earth says to the Earth, All this is ours.
Página xlii - There is neither Greek nor Jew, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free : but Christ is all and in all.