First Impressions of England and Its PeopleJ. Johnstone, 1847 - 411 Seiten |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-5 von 57
Seite iii
... the better ) for going a hundred or two of miles ? " - GRAY's Letters . ༣ ་ LONDON ! JOHN JOHNSTONE , 26 , PATERNOSTER ROW ; AND 15 , PRINCES STREET , EDINBURGH . MDCCCXLVII . EDINBURGH : PRINTED AT THE " WITNESS " OFFICE ,
... the better ) for going a hundred or two of miles ? " - GRAY's Letters . ༣ ་ LONDON ! JOHN JOHNSTONE , 26 , PATERNOSTER ROW ; AND 15 , PRINCES STREET , EDINBURGH . MDCCCXLVII . EDINBURGH : PRINTED AT THE " WITNESS " OFFICE ,
Seite xx
... Miles Northwards , identical , geologically , with a journey of a Mile and a Quarter Downwards . - English very unlike Scottish Land- scape in its Geologic Framework . - Birmingham Fair . - Credulity of the Rural English ; striking ...
... Miles Northwards , identical , geologically , with a journey of a Mile and a Quarter Downwards . - English very unlike Scottish Land- scape in its Geologic Framework . - Birmingham Fair . - Credulity of the Rural English ; striking ...
Seite 26
... miles together , forming blank tablets , on which man may write his works in whatever characters he pleases . Doubt- less such a disposition of things adds greatly to the wealth and power of a country ; -the population of Yorkshire , at ...
... miles together , forming blank tablets , on which man may write his works in whatever characters he pleases . Doubt- less such a disposition of things adds greatly to the wealth and power of a country ; -the population of Yorkshire , at ...
Seite 38
... miles higher up , with trees overhanging its banks , and fringes of green sedge set thick along its edges , -loses caste as it gets among the mills and the print - works . There are myriads of dirty things given it to wash , and whole ...
... miles higher up , with trees overhanging its banks , and fringes of green sedge set thick along its edges , -loses caste as it gets among the mills and the print - works . There are myriads of dirty things given it to wash , and whole ...
Seite 48
... miles . We find quite the sort of country here for travelling over by steam . If one misses see- ing a bit of landscape , as the carriages hurry through , and the objects in the foreground look dim and indistinct , and all in motion ...
... miles . We find quite the sort of country here for travelling over by steam . If one misses see- ing a bit of landscape , as the carriages hurry through , and the objects in the foreground look dim and indistinct , and all in motion ...
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
amid ancient beauty Birmingham Carboniferous century character Church Clent Clent Hills Coal Measures coal-field Cowper creation crustacea curious dark deemed deep deposits district Droitwich Dudley earth England English Englishman Eugene Aram exceedingly exhibited existing feet fields fish formation fossils furnished genius geologic geologist greatly green ground Hagely Hales Owen half hill hollow Holoptychius human hundred labours land landscape Leasowes least less Limestone Lord Lyttleton lower marked ment miles mind nailer nature never Newport Pagnell ocean Old Red Sandstone Olney once Oolite passing peculiar picturesque poet poetry poor present prospect Puseyism Puseyite racter rises river rock rock-salt saliferous salt says scarce scene Scotch Scotland seems seen Shakspeare shells Shenstone Shenstone's side Silurian stone stratum stream surface tall thick things tion town traveller trees trilobite true upper valley vast walk walls wood
Beliebte Passagen
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.