The Country Sketch Book of Pastoral Scenes and Memorable PlacesPartridge & Oakey, 1851 - 216 páginas |
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... wind changes , so as to invade their quarters . " I counted , " he says , " from fifty to sixty of them ; and an ape or two might be seen in the flock , with a young one on its back . " The travellers afterwards visited Algesiras ...
... wind changes , so as to invade their quarters . " I counted , " he says , " from fifty to sixty of them ; and an ape or two might be seen in the flock , with a young one on its back . " The travellers afterwards visited Algesiras ...
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... wind . It was always said , that 50,000 people left the city at the commencement of the pestilence , and that 14,000 of those who remained in it , fell victims to the disease . " To increase the horror of this ghastly feast of death 34 ...
... wind . It was always said , that 50,000 people left the city at the commencement of the pestilence , and that 14,000 of those who remained in it , fell victims to the disease . " To increase the horror of this ghastly feast of death 34 ...
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... wind , and clear off in spite of the guns of the Spaniards.- The English consul was against the enterprise , but he gave Waterton a certificate to the effect , that Malaga had long been rid of the plague , in order that he might not be ...
... wind , and clear off in spite of the guns of the Spaniards.- The English consul was against the enterprise , but he gave Waterton a certificate to the effect , that Malaga had long been rid of the plague , in order that he might not be ...
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... wind blew from the east , he waited until the har- bour master had gone his usual rounds , and the boats of two Spanish brigs - of - war had landed their officers for the afternoon's amusement , and the old governor was gone to take an ...
... wind blew from the east , he waited until the har- bour master had gone his usual rounds , and the boats of two Spanish brigs - of - war had landed their officers for the afternoon's amusement , and the old governor was gone to take an ...
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... wind , That , like a foolish mountebank at fairs , You grin thus at me , for the general sport ? Am I a knave , or loon , or painted fool , To tickle so your mirth , or is it , perhaps , That I into a looking - glass am turned , And you ...
... wind , That , like a foolish mountebank at fairs , You grin thus at me , for the general sport ? Am I a knave , or loon , or painted fool , To tickle so your mirth , or is it , perhaps , That I into a looking - glass am turned , And you ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
abbey Algesiras amongst ancient bards beautiful birds Bishop of Lincoln Bolton Bolton Abbey Britain Britons called castle Charles Charles Waterton church Cloth dark death Demerara divine Druidism Druids EBENEZER ELLIOTT England eyes face flowers forest friends furnace Gainsboro governor hall hand harvest heard heart heaven hill honour horn iron King Kirklees Lady land laws Lincoln Lincolnshire living look lord Low Moor mighty miles morning mountains Mytholmroyd never night Norwegian rat o'er park passed priory privilege reign religion religious rich river river Trent Roman round ruins sanctuary says scene side Skipton sleep stands stone Stowe Park stranger stream sunny sweet thee things thou thro tion Todmorden Tom Miller Torksey town Treaty of Tilsit trees Trent Triads Turvin Vale village walk walls Wanderings Waterton Whilst wild wilderness wind window woods
Passagens conhecidas
Página 88 - I will tarry there but one flood and ebb, if I can have passage ; and unless I can have it in such a place, I will go every day into the sea up to my knees, assaying to pass over : and unless I can do this within forty days, I will put myself again into the church as a robber and a felon of our Lord the King, so God me help and his holy judgment.
Página 167 - I heard the horned bird, the night owl, shrieking horribly with crooked bill from her cavern ; I heard the wild geese, with screaming cries, fly over the city through the silent night. I was soon lulled to sleep, till the cock, clapping his wings, crowed thrice, and the day peeped.
Página 167 - The fern withered on the miry fallows, the brown moors assumed a barren mossy hue ; banks, sides of hills, and bottoms, grew white and bare ; the cattle looked hoary from the dank weather, the wind made the red reed waver on the dyke.
Página 167 - In every hold and forest, the woods were stripped of their array. Boreas blew his bugle horn so loud, that the solitary deer withdrew to the dales ; the small birds flocked to the thick...
Página 151 - Showed many a prophet and many a saint, Whose image on the glass was dyed; Full in the midst, his cross of red Triumphant Michael brandished, And trampled the Apostate's pride. The moonbeam kissed the holy pane, And threw on the pavement a bloody stain.
Página 51 - He seem'd in years, yet in his years were seen A vernal vigour and autumnal green." In fact, I feel as though I were not more than thirty years old. I am quite free from all rheumatic pains ; and am so supple in the joints, that I can climb a tree with the utmost facility.
Página 121 - GOD bless the master of this house, The mistress also ; And all the little children That round the table go ; And all your kin and kinsmen, That dwell both far and near, I wish you a merry Christmas, And a happy new year.
Página 167 - The cranes, prognosticating tempests, in a firm phalanx, pierced the air with voices sounding like a trumpet. The kite, perched on an old tree, fast by my chamber, cried lamentably, a sign of the dawning day.
Página 201 - TRIADS OP BARDISM. 1 . There are three primeval Unities, and more than one of each cannot exist: one God; one truth; and one point of liberty, and this is where all opposites equiponderate. 2. Three things proceed from the three primeval Unities : all life ; all goodness ; all power.
Página 125 - Have circled many a gentle maiden's waist, Are rooted here and there along the path, Commanding all the distant hills and moors. Soft as a spirit's breath, the summer wind Low murmuring 'mongst the trees, makes music sweet, And various as the leaves thro