First flowers, by a literary amateurW. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1825 - 271 Seiten |
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... once again then . That line of dark spots on the bosom of the stream , is the Belgic fleet , riding gloriously at anchor . But clear thy vision , and thou mayest with little difficulty see a mast arising from each vessel , with a sail ...
... once again then . That line of dark spots on the bosom of the stream , is the Belgic fleet , riding gloriously at anchor . But clear thy vision , and thou mayest with little difficulty see a mast arising from each vessel , with a sail ...
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... once transport our attention from this scene , to the existing view from the spot we have hitherto in imagination occupied - LONDON , from Nun - head Hill , in the year 1825. † It is a glorious view ! -and the reality was indeed ...
... once transport our attention from this scene , to the existing view from the spot we have hitherto in imagination occupied - LONDON , from Nun - head Hill , in the year 1825. † It is a glorious view ! -and the reality was indeed ...
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... once acquainted with it , and which never fails to recur to the imagination as often as it is again presented either to the eye or the mental view . The metaphysician's term , association of ideas , will explain this . The main features ...
... once acquainted with it , and which never fails to recur to the imagination as often as it is again presented either to the eye or the mental view . The metaphysician's term , association of ideas , will explain this . The main features ...
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... once of the religion and learning of the times lost nothing of their splendour or celebrity , until a yet more dread- ful calamity than any that had hitherto assailed the city , overwhelmed it in 1069 . Never , from any Pagan enemy ...
... once of the religion and learning of the times lost nothing of their splendour or celebrity , until a yet more dread- ful calamity than any that had hitherto assailed the city , overwhelmed it in 1069 . Never , from any Pagan enemy ...
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... once master of Balliol College : and it may be considered somewhat in the light of a coincidence , that Cranmer was martyred on the paved way directly opposite its chief entrance . BRAZEN - NOSE COLLEGE is said to take its singular name ...
... once master of Balliol College : and it may be considered somewhat in the light of a coincidence , that Cranmer was martyred on the paved way directly opposite its chief entrance . BRAZEN - NOSE COLLEGE is said to take its singular name ...
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Seite 72 - He has visited all Europe, — not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or...
Seite 73 - THE poesy of this young lord belongs to the class which neither gods nor men are said to permit. Indeed, we do not recollect to have seen a quantity of verse with so few deviations in either direction from that exact standard. His «cffusions are spread over a dead flat, and can no more get (above or below the level, than if they were so much stagnant 'water.
Seite 71 - God! sing ye meadow-streams, with gladsome voice ! Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds! And they too have a voice, yon piles of snow, And in their perilous fall shall thunder, God ! Ye living flowers that skirt the eternal frost! Ye wild goats sporting round the eagle's nest! Ye eagles, play-mates of the mountain storm! Ye lightnings, the dread arrows of the clouds ! Ye signs and wonders of the elements ! Utter forth God, and fill the hills with praise!
Seite 71 - Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the Gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? GOD! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, GOD!
Seite 72 - ... temples, not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art, not to collect medals or collate manuscripts, — but to dive into the depths of dungeons, to plunge into the infection of hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, to take the...
Seite 71 - Ye Ice-falls! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge! Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the Gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? GOD!
Seite 67 - Surely everybody is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a winter fireside, — candles at four o'clock, warm hearth-rugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies on the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly without...
Seite 81 - Let him for succour sue from place to place, Torn from his subjects, and his son's embrace. First let him see his friends in battle slain, And their untimely fate lament in vain ; And when at length the cruel war shall cease, On hard conditions may he buy his peace ; Nor let him then enjoy supreme command, But fall untimely by some hostile hand, And...
Seite 248 - Go rule thy will, Bid thy wild passions all be still, Know God — and bring thy heart to know, The joys which from religion flow: Then every Grace shall prove its guest, And I'll be there to crown the rest.
Seite 76 - Tis Flora's page: — In every place, In every season, fresh and fair, It opens with perennial grace, And blossoms everywhere. On waste and woodland, rock and plain, Its humble buds unheeded rise; The Rose has but a summer reign, — The Daisy never dies.