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... DEAR BOARDMAN , It is not in idle compliment , that your name occupies this page . Early endeared to me by associations of intimacy and friendship , you are blended in many of the choicest recol- lections of my youth ; and I am happy in ...
... DEAR BOARDMAN , It is not in idle compliment , that your name occupies this page . Early endeared to me by associations of intimacy and friendship , you are blended in many of the choicest recol- lections of my youth ; and I am happy in ...
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... DEAR VIRGINIA , WHEN 1 made the half sportive promise , a few months since , of addressing the next letters 1 should write from abroad to you , 1 did not imagine that my sincerity in the case would so soon be put to the test ; or , if I ...
... DEAR VIRGINIA , WHEN 1 made the half sportive promise , a few months since , of addressing the next letters 1 should write from abroad to you , 1 did not imagine that my sincerity in the case would so soon be put to the test ; or , if I ...
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... DEAR VIRGINIA , Ship York , off North Wales , May 30th , 1832 . Ar an early hour yesterday morning , we had ex- changed the swelling ocean for the smooth surface of a summer's sea , and were gently sailing along the south coast of ...
... DEAR VIRGINIA , Ship York , off North Wales , May 30th , 1832 . Ar an early hour yesterday morning , we had ex- changed the swelling ocean for the smooth surface of a summer's sea , and were gently sailing along the south coast of ...
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... DEAR VIRGINIA , Adelphi Hotel , Liverpool , May 31st , 1832 . INDUCEMENTS of the most tempting kind are ever present to an American for a visit to England . But two circumstances , in particular , led to the resolution on my part of ...
... DEAR VIRGINIA , Adelphi Hotel , Liverpool , May 31st , 1832 . INDUCEMENTS of the most tempting kind are ever present to an American for a visit to England . But two circumstances , in particular , led to the resolution on my part of ...
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... DEAR VIRGINIA , Adelphi Hotel , Liverpool , June 1st , 1832 . MR . BROWN , the principal of a distinguished mer- cantile house in this city , was of the party at the Con- sul's yesterday . I had letters to him from his brother , Mr ...
... DEAR VIRGINIA , Adelphi Hotel , Liverpool , June 1st , 1832 . MR . BROWN , the principal of a distinguished mer- cantile house in this city , was of the party at the Con- sul's yesterday . I had letters to him from his brother , Mr ...
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Abbey admiration American amidst antique apartments arrival beautiful Bicester breakfast Byron Captain Bolton carriage Castle chapel character cheer church College court crowd DEAR VIRGINIA delightful dinner distance door drawing-room dress Duchess of Kent Duke Dulken Earl England entrance exhibition gardens gazed gentlemen Gothic grounds groves Guy's Cliff hall Hatcham heart honour horses hour Hyde Park impression interest kind king kingdom ladies lawn LETTER light Lodge lofty London Lord Lord Byron magnificent manner Marshgate ment miles morning NEWSTEAD ABBEY noble ornamented Oxford paintings palace Park parlour passed pile portraits present Prince principal queen Radcliffe Library received recollect Regent residence royal Salt Hill scarce scene seat seen shrubbery side Sir Charles Ogle SOMERSET HOUSE spirit street style taste Thames tion tower town ture walk walls West India Docks Weston Underwood whole Wildman Windsor
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Página 3 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, — Calm or convulsed, in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving — boundless, endless, and sublime, The image of eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Página 106 - Thou art, of what sort the eternal life of the saints was to be, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.
Página 76 - Snatch'd through the verdant maze, the hurried eye Distracted wanders; now the bowery walk Of covert close, where scarce a speck of day Falls on the lengthen'd gloom, protracted sweeps: Now meets the bending sky; the river now Dimpling along, the breezy ruffled lake, The forest darkening round, the glittering spire, Th' ethereal mountain, and the distant main.
Página 28 - Heavens! what a goodly prospect spreads around, Of hills, and dales, and woods, and lawns, and spires, i And glittering towns, and gilded streams, till all The stretching landscape into smoke decays...
Página 164 - Walk about Zion, and go round about her ; tell the towers thereof : mark ye well her bulwarks, and consider her palaces;" — if her elevation, it was,
Página 164 - Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion. God is known in her palaces for a refuge.
Página 236 - To Norman Abbey whirl'd the noble pair, — An old, old monastery once, and now Still older mansion, — of a rich and rare Mix'd Gothic, such as artists all allow Few specimens yet left us can compare Withal: it lies perhaps a little low, Because the monks preferr'da hill behind, To shelter their devotion from the wind.
Página 47 - ... from the neatness within and without, and the more to be remarked, as many of them are rude, lowly, and time-stricken structures. The white-washed fences and walls look cleanly and carefully kept; the honey-suckle and jessamine, clustering roses and graceful laburnums, with their thick blossoms overhanging and festooning the doors and windows with sweet drapery, add a charm, so rare with us, but strongly reminding one of the cottage homes of England. With an attention all alive to the beautiful,...
Página 83 - Certainly one of the most famous inscriptions is that marking Shakespeare's burial place: Good frend, for Jesus sake forbeare To digg the dust encloased here; . Bleste be ye man y' spares thes stones, And curst be he y' moves my bones, — But this is as much a curse as an epitaph.
Página 8 - It is one and a quarter miles in length, and is one of the most beautiful structures of the kind in the world.