The Year Book, of Daily Recreation & Information: Concerning Remarkable Men, Manners, Times, Seasons, Solemnities, Merry-makings, Antiquities & Novelties, Forming a Complete History of the Year; & a Perpetual Key to the AlmanacW. Tegg, 1832 - 856 Seiten |
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... ancient usage , the Christmas holidays , and with Twelfth - day , they are seldom over until the close of the month . " To the story told By the gossip old , O'er the embers dimly glowing , While the pattering sleet On the casement beat ...
... ancient usage , the Christmas holidays , and with Twelfth - day , they are seldom over until the close of the month . " To the story told By the gossip old , O'er the embers dimly glowing , While the pattering sleet On the casement beat ...
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... ancient taste . Sir Philip Sidney was born at Penshurst , November 29 , 1554. His great produc- tion , the " Arcadia , " combines the high- toned spirit of gallantry , heroism , and courtesy , of the ancient chivalric romance , with the ...
... ancient taste . Sir Philip Sidney was born at Penshurst , November 29 , 1554. His great produc- tion , the " Arcadia , " combines the high- toned spirit of gallantry , heroism , and courtesy , of the ancient chivalric romance , with the ...
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... ancient castles . In the keep , or dungeon , the lord , or governor , had his state rooms , which were little better than gloomy cells , with chinks , or embrasures , diminishing inwards , through which arrows , from long and cross ...
... ancient castles . In the keep , or dungeon , the lord , or governor , had his state rooms , which were little better than gloomy cells , with chinks , or embrasures , diminishing inwards , through which arrows , from long and cross ...
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... ancient chemists had been unjustly derided . He then gave me a history of his studies , mentioned some men whom I had happened to know in London , who he alleged had assured him nat they had made gold . That having in consequence ...
... ancient chemists had been unjustly derided . He then gave me a history of his studies , mentioned some men whom I had happened to know in London , who he alleged had assured him nat they had made gold . That having in consequence ...
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... ancient edifice , and the title page is frontispieced with a view of the old oak growing from the ruined wall , as it is here represented The en- graving is referred to in the annexed ex- tracts from the " Wanderings : " - " Over the ...
... ancient edifice , and the title page is frontispieced with a view of the old oak growing from the ruined wall , as it is here represented The en- graving is referred to in the annexed ex- tracts from the " Wanderings : " - " Over the ...
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Seite 118 - Here Reynolds is laid, and to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind : His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand : His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart...
Seite 199 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam...
Seite 380 - Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Seite 211 - To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom— Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind.
Seite 269 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the...
Seite 196 - From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings.
Seite 612 - So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.
Seite 493 - I have greater witness than that of John ; for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.
Seite 195 - Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower ; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind, In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be, In the soothing thoughts that spring...
Seite 277 - UP with me ! up with me into the clouds ! For thy song, Lark, is strong; Up with me, up with me into the clouds ! Singing, singing, With clouds and sky about thee ringing, Lift me, guide me till I find That spot which seems so to thy mind...