The Works of Anna Lætitia Barbauld: Correspondence. Miscellaneous piecesLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825 |
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... church ; —tombs , images , drapery , pillars , shrines , all formed without much aid from fancy , by na- ture working alone for ages in these long and lofty caverns . We walked in it , I believe , about two furlongs , and it might be ...
... church ; —tombs , images , drapery , pillars , shrines , all formed without much aid from fancy , by na- ture working alone for ages in these long and lofty caverns . We walked in it , I believe , about two furlongs , and it might be ...
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... churches here are numerous , highly adorned , and have several good paintings . The streets are darkened with cowls and filled with beggars ; drawn here , they say , by the strangers , -for the people are no ways oppressed by the ...
... churches here are numerous , highly adorned , and have several good paintings . The streets are darkened with cowls and filled with beggars ; drawn here , they say , by the strangers , -for the people are no ways oppressed by the ...
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... churches , stately palaces . A pleasant and varied country . Per Contra . Flies , fleas , and all Pharaoh's plague of vermin . No tea , and the very name of a tea - kettle unknown . Bad scents within doors . No plum - pudding . Milk as ...
... churches , stately palaces . A pleasant and varied country . Per Contra . Flies , fleas , and all Pharaoh's plague of vermin . No tea , and the very name of a tea - kettle unknown . Bad scents within doors . No plum - pudding . Milk as ...
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... church . The minister is an agreeable and literary man , and is very obliging towards us ; his wife has been six years in England , and speaks English well . Her family fled there from persecution ; for her grandfather ( who was a ...
... church . The minister is an agreeable and literary man , and is very obliging towards us ; his wife has been six years in England , and speaks English well . Her family fled there from persecution ; for her grandfather ( who was a ...
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... of the Protestants . They are computed to be 30,000 , and the richest part of the inhabitants : for here , as the Dissent- ers in England , they give themselves to trade . They have no church , nor even barn ; but 46.
... of the Protestants . They are computed to be 30,000 , and the richest part of the inhabitants : for here , as the Dissent- ers in England , they give themselves to trade . They have no church , nor even barn ; but 46.
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affection affectionate agreeable amongst Avignon beauty believe Besançon bishop of Carpentras called character child choly christians church Clio confess connexions dear delightful devotion Dijon English enjoy esteem ESTLIN eyes fancy favour feel France friends Geneva genius give going Hampstead happy heart honour hope idea imagination interest Jupiter kind lady Languedoc late learning letter likewise London look Lord Byron Madame Maison Carrée manner Marseilles melan ment mind Montpelier moral nation nature neighbours never object obliged opinion ourselves Paris passions perhaps philosopher pity pleasing pleasure Pont du Gard pray prayer prejudice Provençal public worship racters reason religion rich rocks ruin scenes sect seen Seláma sensible sentiment society spirit Stoke Newington suppose sure taste tears tell tender thing thou thought tincture tion town trees truth turn Vaucluse venerable virtue walks wish write young
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Página 428 - And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Página 429 - But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth : for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit : and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
Página 453 - When out of twenty I can please not two ; When this Heroics only deigns to praise, Sharp Satire that, and that Pindaric lays ? One likes the pheasant's wing, and one the leg; The vulgar boil, the learned roast an egg.
Página 244 - This day is called the feast of Crispian. He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when this day is named, And rouse him at the name of Crispian. He that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, And say "Tomorrow is Saint Crispian." Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, And say "These wounds I had on Crispin's day.
Página 26 - FAIR stood the wind for France When we our sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry; But putting to the main, At Caux, the mouth of Seine, With all his martial train, Landed King Harry.
Página 134 - I WAS just going to write to you when I received your kind letter; for I had heard of your son's marriage, and wished to congratulate you on the event : but I do it with much more pleasure, now that I learn from your letter the full satisfaction and pleasure that you feel in the match. You are fortunate, my dear friend, in having so excellent and well-principled a son ; fortunate in having him married agreeably to your wishes ; and very fortunate in having him and your other children within a walk...
Página 189 - And why can you not ? What hinders you from discarding this troublesome scrupulosity of yours which stands so grievously in your way ? If it be a small thing to enjoy a healthful mind, sound at the very core, that does not shrink from the keenest inspection; inward freedom from remorse and perturbation; unsullied whiteness and simplicity of manners; a genuine integrity, " Pure in the last recesses of the mind ; " if you think these advantages an inadequate recompense for what you resign, dismiss...
Página 213 - Till, by degrees, the floating mirror shines, Reflects each flower that on the border grows, And a new heaven in its fair bosom shows.
Página 165 - I saw that the only regular approach to the mountain was by a gate, called the Gate of Languages. It was kept by a woman of a pensive and thoughtful appearance, whose lips were continually moving, as though she repeated something to herself. Her name was Memory. On entering this first...
Página 399 - Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death ; which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good ; Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dire.