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... less intense , are kindling in every bosom , and illuminating each face with joy , in the prospect of speedily reaching our port , and of participating again in all the bless- ings of the land . Man loves this change and this excitement ...
... less intense , are kindling in every bosom , and illuminating each face with joy , in the prospect of speedily reaching our port , and of participating again in all the bless- ings of the land . Man loves this change and this excitement ...
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... less in- terested in our arrival . Even the pet dogs of some caught the feeling of their masters , and , by barking and frisking about , and running and jumping from one to another , added no little to the joyous animation pervading the ...
... less in- terested in our arrival . Even the pet dogs of some caught the feeling of their masters , and , by barking and frisking about , and running and jumping from one to another , added no little to the joyous animation pervading the ...
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... less extensively the bane of good morals on this side of the Atlantic , than on the other . He states , that during the past year , there have been no less than twenty thousand commit- ments for drunkenness , before the magistrates of ...
... less extensively the bane of good morals on this side of the Atlantic , than on the other . He states , that during the past year , there have been no less than twenty thousand commit- ments for drunkenness , before the magistrates of ...
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... less curvature among some dozens of cottages and humble dwellings , clus- tered thickly together , as in the times , when the rude- ness and violence of a barbarous age rendered it necessary , for men to dwell en masse , for the sake of ...
... less curvature among some dozens of cottages and humble dwellings , clus- tered thickly together , as in the times , when the rude- ness and violence of a barbarous age rendered it necessary , for men to dwell en masse , for the sake of ...
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... less than two hours from Liverpool . Were Chester the first place on which an Ameri- can should cast his eyes , after arriving in England , he would at once feel himself to be in an old and foreign land . The massive walls by which it ...
... less than two hours from Liverpool . Were Chester the first place on which an Ameri- can should cast his eyes , after arriving in England , he would at once feel himself to be in an old and foreign land . The massive walls by which it ...
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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.