First Impressions of England and Its PeopleJ. Johnstone, 1847 - 411 Seiten |
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... light of the dim twilight caverns within . Society in England , in the present day , exists , like the thawing iceberg , in a transition state , and presents its consequent shiftings of aspect and changes of feature ; and such is the ...
... light of the dim twilight caverns within . Society in England , in the present day , exists , like the thawing iceberg , in a transition state , and presents its consequent shiftings of aspect and changes of feature ; and such is the ...
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... light and elegant Proportions of the Building ; its grotesque Sculptures ; these indicative of the Scep- ticism of the Age in which they were produced . - St Bartholomew's Day . Sermon on Saints ' Day . - Timothy's Grandmother . - The ...
... light and elegant Proportions of the Building ; its grotesque Sculptures ; these indicative of the Scep- ticism of the Age in which they were produced . - St Bartholomew's Day . Sermon on Saints ' Day . - Timothy's Grandmother . - The ...
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... light and shadow , swelled upwards on either side towards the line of boundary , like the billows of opposing tide - ways , that rise over the gene- ral level where the currents meet ; and passing on and away from wave - top to wave ...
... light and shadow , swelled upwards on either side towards the line of boundary , like the billows of opposing tide - ways , that rise over the gene- ral level where the currents meet ; and passing on and away from wave - top to wave ...
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Hugh Miller. simply because the one - half of them had first seen the light on the one side of the hill , and the other half on the other side . And yet such was the state of things which obtained in this wild district for many hundred ...
Hugh Miller. simply because the one - half of them had first seen the light on the one side of the hill , and the other half on the other side . And yet such was the state of things which obtained in this wild district for many hundred ...
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... light and the air , became unfitted to produce its former vegetation ; but a new order of plants , - the thick water - mosses , -began to spring up ; one generation budded and decayed over the ruins of another ; and what had been an ...
... light and the air , became unfitted to produce its former vegetation ; but a new order of plants , - the thick water - mosses , -began to spring up ; one generation budded and decayed over the ruins of another ; and what had been an ...
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Seite 253 - First, I commend my soul into the hands of God my creator, hoping, and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting; and my body to the earth whereof it is made.
Seite 345 - Tis a note of enchantment ; what ails her ? She sees A mountain ascending, a vision of trees; Bright volumes of vapour through Lothbury glide, And a river flows on through the vale of Cheapside.
Seite 309 - And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi. And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
Seite 274 - Within the twilight of their distant shades; There, lost behind a rising ground, the wood Seems sunk, and shortened to its topmost boughs. No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar; paler some.
Seite 51 - mid th' unrustling reed, At those mirk hours the wily monster lies, And listens oft to hear the passing steed, And frequent round him rolls his sullen eyes, If chance his savage wrath may some weak wretch surprise.
Seite 211 - Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Seite 273 - So strong the zeal to immortalize himself Beats in the breast of man, that e'en a few, Few transient years, won from th' abyss abhorr'd Of blank oblivion, seem a glorious prize, And even to a clown. Now roves the eye ; And, posted on this speculative height, Exults in its command. The sheepfold here Pours out its fleecy tenants o'er the glebe.
Seite 309 - And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein ; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
Seite 23 - Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chilness to my trembling heart.
Seite 116 - Her speech was the melodious voice of Love, Her song the warbling of the vernal grove ; Her eloquence was sweeter than her song, Soft as her heart, and as her reason strong; Her form each beauty of her mind express'd, Her mind was Virtue by the Graces dress'd.