First Impressions of England and Its PeopleJ. Johnstone, 1847 - 411 Seiten |
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... ..... ..31 .48 CHAPTER V. Dudley ; significant Marks of the Mining Town . - Kindly Scotch Landlady . - Temperance Coffee - house . - Little Samuel the Teeto- taller . Curious Incident . - Anecdote . - The XIV CONTENTS .
... ..... ..31 .48 CHAPTER V. Dudley ; significant Marks of the Mining Town . - Kindly Scotch Landlady . - Temperance Coffee - house . - Little Samuel the Teeto- taller . Curious Incident . - Anecdote . - The XIV CONTENTS .
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Hugh Miller. taller . Curious Incident . - Anecdote . - The Resuscitated Spinet.- Forbearance of Little Samuel . - Dudley Museum ; singularly rich in Silurian Fossils . - Megalichthys Hibberti . - Fossils from Mount Lebanon ; very modern ...
Hugh Miller. taller . Curious Incident . - Anecdote . - The Resuscitated Spinet.- Forbearance of Little Samuel . - Dudley Museum ; singularly rich in Silurian Fossils . - Megalichthys Hibberti . - Fossils from Mount Lebanon ; very modern ...
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... taller than his own . - Imitative Faculty . - The Reports of Dickens . - Learning of Shakspeare . - New Place . The Rev. Francis Gastrall . - Stratford Church . The Poet's Grave ; his Bust ; far superior to the idea- lized ...
... taller than his own . - Imitative Faculty . - The Reports of Dickens . - Learning of Shakspeare . - New Place . The Rev. Francis Gastrall . - Stratford Church . The Poet's Grave ; his Bust ; far superior to the idea- lized ...
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... tall precipices washed by the sea . And so , for the time at least , I had to give up all thought of visiting Orkney . " I shall cross the Border , " I said , " and get into England . I know the humbler Scotch better than most men , -I ...
... tall precipices washed by the sea . And so , for the time at least , I had to give up all thought of visiting Orkney . " I shall cross the Border , " I said , " and get into England . I know the humbler Scotch better than most men , -I ...
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... tall lanky Northumbrian , who had busied himself in changing the horses . " Yez , all roit , " was the reply , " roit as the Church of England . " Presbyterian ground no longer . I was , it was evident , on We passed , as the country ...
... tall lanky Northumbrian , who had busied himself in changing the horses . " Yez , all roit , " was the reply , " roit as the Church of England . " Presbyterian ground no longer . I was , it was evident , on We passed , as the country ...
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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.