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Seite 285 - Ye lightnings, the dread arrows of the clouds! Ye signs and wonders of the elements! Utter forth "God!
Seite 139 - O'er Roslin all that dreary night A wondrous blaze was seen to gleam ; 'Twas broader than the watchfire's light, And redder than the bright moonbeam. It glared on Roslin's castled rock, It ruddied all the copsewood glen ; Twas seen from Dryden's groves of oak, And seen from cavern'd Hawthornden.
Seite 217 - He was condemned to be put from the bar ; to stand on the pillory in two places, Westminster and Cheapside ; to lose both his ears, one in each place ; to pay five thousand pounds...
Seite 211 - Edward, equally vigorous and cautious, entering by the north with a formidable army, pierced into the heart of the country; and having carefully explored every road before him, and secured every pass behind him, approached the Welsh army in its last retreat. He here avoided the putting to trial the valour of a nation proud of its ancient independence, and inflamed with animosity...
Seite 52 - Smack went the whip, round went the wheels, Were never folks so glad ; The stones did rattle underneath, As if Cheapside were mad.
Seite 286 - This may be partly owing to the absence of that periodical literature which is now the rapid vehicle of information, and partly to his calling, and the nature of his great works, which, however well adapted for the closet, were originally designed for the stage The reformation could not fail, from the very nature of it, to tinge the literature of the Elizabethan era. It gave a logical and disputations character to the age, and produced men mighty in the Scriptures.
Seite 211 - ... approached the Welsh army in its last retreat. He here avoided the putting to trial the valour of a nation proud of its ancient independence, and inflamed with animosity against its hereditary enemies ; and he trusted to the slow but sure effects of famine, for reducing that people to subjection. The rude and simple manners of the natives, as well as the mountainous situation of their country, had made them entirely neglect tillage, and trust to pasturage alone for their subsistence...
Seite 170 - ... north, aisle was used to make the roof of the south aisle. The chancel is an addition and enlargement of the original structure, as is evident from the remains of the tracery of the eastern window, which was originally in a line with the extremities of the two aisles. The tower, 135 feet in height, consists of several successive stages, panelled throughout, and decorated with numerous statues of saints placed in niches of the buttresses. It is surmounted by an open-work balustrade, from which...
Seite 143 - ... scraped with a bronze instrument called a Strigil —thin and flexible, like a hoop — by which all impurities were removed from the skin; they were then shampooed, rubbed down with towels (Lintea), and their bodies anointed with oil, by an attendant called Aliptes...
Seite 144 - New houses too are seen here and there among the old ones, and if the city contain no cotton lords, no dukes and marquises, and no wealthy settlers from the East Indies or the Black Indies, I observed at least that there were fewer beggars, than in London, Manchester, Glasgow, or Newcastle. The people, like the city itself, seemed all to have a decent and orderly look. The streets, though not so wide and regular as those of the more modern parts of London and Edinburg, are also not so narrow and...