Bentley's Miscellany, Band 30Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith Richard Bentley, 1851 |
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... miles , we embrace a population of three - quarters of a million . We say this at the outset , by way of securing respect for our theme . New York is a mere Jonah's gourd or Jack the Giant - killer's bean- stalk compared with London ...
... miles , we embrace a population of three - quarters of a million . We say this at the outset , by way of securing respect for our theme . New York is a mere Jonah's gourd or Jack the Giant - killer's bean- stalk compared with London ...
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... miles long , with an average breadth of one mile and a half , the greatest width being two and a half miles . At the southerly point of the island , where the Hudson unites with the strait called the East River , lies one of the finest ...
... miles long , with an average breadth of one mile and a half , the greatest width being two and a half miles . At the southerly point of the island , where the Hudson unites with the strait called the East River , lies one of the finest ...
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... miles and a half in a straight line , northward from the battery ; and then , making a slight deflection at Union Park , runs on , ad infinitum , though it is at present but sparely built after another mile or so . Nearly all the best ...
... miles and a half in a straight line , northward from the battery ; and then , making a slight deflection at Union Park , runs on , ad infinitum , though it is at present but sparely built after another mile or so . Nearly all the best ...
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... miles in length , commencing with a dam across the Croton river , six miles above its mouth . This raises the water one hundred and sixty - six feet above tide level , forming a lake or reservoir of four hundred acres in extent ...
... miles in length , commencing with a dam across the Croton river , six miles above its mouth . This raises the water one hundred and sixty - six feet above tide level , forming a lake or reservoir of four hundred acres in extent ...
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... mile , to throw them away , and as the day was breaking , we entered the silent streets of Norwich , pondering upon ... miles through a pathless wilderness . We seldom took any note of time , and some- times were throwing the spear even ...
... mile , to throw them away , and as the day was breaking , we entered the silent streets of Norwich , pondering upon ... miles through a pathless wilderness . We seldom took any note of time , and some- times were throwing the spear even ...
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Seite 49 - And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck ; and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had ; and they cried before him, Bow the knee : and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Seite 292 - Alcina from the crown of her head to the soles of her feet, that notwithstanding the grace, the facility, the soft elegance of his verse, Alcina is not beautiful.
Seite 441 - Where may the wearied eye repose When gazing on the great; Where neither guilty glory glows, Nor despicable state ? Yes — one — the first — the last — the best— The Cincinnatus of the West, Whom envy dared not hate, Bequeathed the name of Washington, To make man blush there was but One !
Seite 127 - ... and when that diligent bird has at length taken a fish, and is bearing it to his nest for the support of his mate and young ones, the bald eagle pursues him and takes it from him. With all this injustice he is never in good case; but, like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy.
Seite 640 - I am ashamed that women are so simple To offer war where they should kneel for peace, Or seek for rule, supremacy and sway, When they are bound to serve, love and obey.
Seite 127 - I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country ; he is a bird of bad moral character ; he does not get his living honestly...
Seite 428 - Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democracy, Shook the Arsenal and fulmined over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes...
Seite 54 - And we, we shall die, and Islam will wither away, and the Englishman straining far over to hold his loved India, will plant a firm foot on the banks of the Nile and sit in the seats of the Faithful...
Seite 554 - And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.
Seite 341 - Stretch'd like green anthers many a seeking head. And arborets of jointed stone were there, And plants of fibres fine, as silkworm's thread ; Yea, beautiful as Mermaid's golden hair Upon the waves dispread. Others that, like the broad banana growing, Raised their long wrinkled leaves of purple hue, Like streamers wide out-flowing.