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... four o'clock the next morn- ing , and found the weather still bright and beautiful . We had passed Cape Clear , and were approaching the Old Head of Kinsale , memorable to many a heart , on both sides of the Atlantic , as the spot at ...
... four o'clock the next morn- ing , and found the weather still bright and beautiful . We had passed Cape Clear , and were approaching the Old Head of Kinsale , memorable to many a heart , on both sides of the Atlantic , as the spot at ...
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... one of the most pic- turesque and delightful sections of North Wales , at a distance of three or four miles only , burst upon me in a freshness of colouring , and grandeur of imagery , 10 SCENE OFF both on land and sea , rarely.
... one of the most pic- turesque and delightful sections of North Wales , at a distance of three or four miles only , burst upon me in a freshness of colouring , and grandeur of imagery , 10 SCENE OFF both on land and sea , rarely.
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... four hundred years , when the fall of the empire left Britain once more to the possession of her native sons , it was the station of the twentieth legion of the Imperial army . Some of 26 ANTIQUITY AND its churches are among the first ...
... four hundred years , when the fall of the empire left Britain once more to the possession of her native sons , it was the station of the twentieth legion of the Imperial army . Some of 26 ANTIQUITY AND its churches are among the first ...
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... four gates for carriages , one on each side , those opposite being con- nected by streets which intersect in the middle of the town . The walls are of brown free - stone , and vary in height , from a few feet only , in some places , to ...
... four gates for carriages , one on each side , those opposite being con- nected by streets which intersect in the middle of the town . The walls are of brown free - stone , and vary in height , from a few feet only , in some places , to ...
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... four miles , we have just taken , to Eaton Hall , celebrated as the seat of Earl Grosvenor , a nobleman recently elevated by the king to the Marquisate of West- minster . In making the excursion , you leave the city by the bridge gate ...
... four miles , we have just taken , to Eaton Hall , celebrated as the seat of Earl Grosvenor , a nobleman recently elevated by the king to the Marquisate of West- minster . In making the excursion , you leave the city by the bridge gate ...
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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.