First Impressions of England and Its PeopleJ. Johnstone, 1847 - 411 Seiten |
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... surface sunk into a plain , laid out , far as the eye could reach , into fields , still wretchedly green , and closely reticulated with hedge - rows ; the farm - houses and gentlemen's seats thickened as we advanced ; and England ...
... surface sunk into a plain , laid out , far as the eye could reach , into fields , still wretchedly green , and closely reticulated with hedge - rows ; the farm - houses and gentlemen's seats thickened as we advanced ; and England ...
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... surface several dozens of them , cut open at every possible angle , and presenting every variety of section , as if to show what sort of creatures they had been . The glossy wet served as a varnish ; and I could see that not only had ...
... surface several dozens of them , cut open at every possible angle , and presenting every variety of section , as if to show what sort of creatures they had been . The glossy wet served as a varnish ; and I could see that not only had ...
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... surface , as in the Dudley coal - field , -soft or hard , solid or incoherent , determines the question of high or low , bold or tame . Here , for instance , is a common map of England , on which the emi- nences are marked , but not the ...
... surface , as in the Dudley coal - field , -soft or hard , solid or incoherent , determines the question of high or low , bold or tame . Here , for instance , is a common map of England , on which the emi- nences are marked , but not the ...
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... surface of their minds a thin diffusion of ill - remembered facts and crude theories ; and rarely indeed do we see them rising in the scale of society : they become Socialists by hundreds , and Chartists by thou- sands , and get no ...
... surface of their minds a thin diffusion of ill - remembered facts and crude theories ; and rarely indeed do we see them rising in the scale of society : they become Socialists by hundreds , and Chartists by thou- sands , and get no ...
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... gray . The colouring of the two formations could be scarcely better defined in a geological map than here on the face of the landscape . There is no such utter ruin of the surface in our mining districts in 52 FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF.
... gray . The colouring of the two formations could be scarcely better defined in a geological map than here on the face of the landscape . There is no such utter ruin of the surface in our mining districts in 52 FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF.
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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
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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.