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... noble vessel , with full spread sails and banners brightly gleaming in the sunshine , left her moorings at New York and hasten- ed triumphantly on her destination over the bay . Among the passengers were some whom I had inti- mately ...
... noble vessel , with full spread sails and banners brightly gleaming in the sunshine , left her moorings at New York and hasten- ed triumphantly on her destination over the bay . Among the passengers were some whom I had inti- mately ...
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... noble mansion in the vicinity , surrounded by a stately Park belonging to the marquess of Thomond , presenting to an Ame- rican eye , in its contrast with every other building for many miles along the coast , a striking evidence of the ...
... noble mansion in the vicinity , surrounded by a stately Park belonging to the marquess of Thomond , presenting to an Ame- rican eye , in its contrast with every other building for many miles along the coast , a striking evidence of the ...
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... noble stone pier , fur- nished at short intervals with substantial steps for the convenience of landing from boats at any state of the tide , separates the docks from the river , and affords an open and pleasant promenade , at the wa ...
... noble stone pier , fur- nished at short intervals with substantial steps for the convenience of landing from boats at any state of the tide , separates the docks from the river , and affords an open and pleasant promenade , at the wa ...
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... noble and the brave of former ages , and the prison , at the close of the fourteenth century , of a regal captive , in the person of Richard the 2d , previously to the resignation of his throne to Henry of Lancaster . Much of the pile ...
... noble and the brave of former ages , and the prison , at the close of the fourteenth century , of a regal captive , in the person of Richard the 2d , previously to the resignation of his throne to Henry of Lancaster . Much of the pile ...
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... noble , and the expense estimated at forty thousand pounds sterling . It , with the old Cas- tle , is seen to fine advantage in crossing the river on the one hand , while , on the other , the windings of the stream , overhung by avenues ...
... noble , and the expense estimated at forty thousand pounds sterling . It , with the old Cas- tle , is seen to fine advantage in crossing the river on the one hand , while , on the other , the windings of the stream , overhung by avenues ...
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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.