Time's Telescope for ... ; Or, A Complete Guide to the AlmanackSherwood, Gilbert and Piper, 1832 |
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... church built on the place of her martyrdom , the priest of the church of St. Peter's ad Vincula annually blesses two lambs , whose wool is afterwards made use of by the nuns of St. Lawrence to make palliasses . Agnes's Eve was formerly ...
... church built on the place of her martyrdom , the priest of the church of St. Peter's ad Vincula annually blesses two lambs , whose wool is afterwards made use of by the nuns of St. Lawrence to make palliasses . Agnes's Eve was formerly ...
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... churches and chapels on this day with candles and lamps . ON SEEING A PICTURE OF THE VIRGIN MARY . PAINTED SEVERAL CENTURIES SINCE . A FRAGMENT , BY L. MARIA DAVIDSON , WRITTEN IN HER FIFTEENTH YEAR . Roll back , thou tide of time and ...
... churches and chapels on this day with candles and lamps . ON SEEING A PICTURE OF THE VIRGIN MARY . PAINTED SEVERAL CENTURIES SINCE . A FRAGMENT , BY L. MARIA DAVIDSON , WRITTEN IN HER FIFTEENTH YEAR . Roll back , thou tide of time and ...
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... Church , Edinburgh , and long an ornament of the Kirk of Scotland . He was just returning home from a meeting of presbytery , and having met a friend at the west end of Princes Street , he was giving him an account of the proceedings ...
... Church , Edinburgh , and long an ornament of the Kirk of Scotland . He was just returning home from a meeting of presbytery , and having met a friend at the west end of Princes Street , he was giving him an account of the proceedings ...
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... church of Scotland . In eloquence he was unmatched ; and though the ardency of his zeal as a public disputant often carried him farther than even his friends could justify , yet the bold and manly way in which he invariably kept his ...
... church of Scotland . In eloquence he was unmatched ; and though the ardency of his zeal as a public disputant often carried him farther than even his friends could justify , yet the bold and manly way in which he invariably kept his ...
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... church , who was beheaded during the persecution of Claudius II . in the year 270 . The annual custom of sending " valentines " on this day is of very ancient practice ; although its origin is buried in obscurity . Lydgate , the monk of ...
... church , who was beheaded during the persecution of Claudius II . in the year 270 . The annual custom of sending " valentines " on this day is of very ancient practice ; although its origin is buried in obscurity . Lydgate , the monk of ...
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Página 86 - It is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whisper'd word ; And gentle winds, and waters near, Make music to the lonely ear. Each flower the dews have lightly wet, And in the sky the stars are met, And on the wave is deeper blue, And on the leaf a browner hue, And in the heaven that clear obscure, So softly dark, and darkly pure, Which follows the decline of day, As twilight melts beneath the moon away.
Página 60 - The poetry of earth is never dead: When all the birds are faint with the hot Sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead. That is the grasshopper's : he takes the lead In summer luxury — he has never done With his delights, for when tired out with fun, He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.
Página 101 - After some common discourses had passed between us he called for a manuscript of his ; which being brought he delivered to me, bidding me take it home with me and read it at my leisure ; and when I had so done, return it to him with my judgment thereupon. '' When I came home and had set myself to read it I found it was that excellent poem which he entitled
Página 87 - The moon is up, and yet it is not night — Sunset divides the sky with her — a sea Of glory streams along the Alpine height Of blue Friuli's mountains ; Heaven is free From clouds, but of all colours seems to be — Melted to one vast Iris of the West, Where the Day joins the past Eternity ; While, on the other hand, meek Dian's crest Floats through the azure air — an island of the blest 1
Página 5 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
Página 10 - DEAR is the hallowed morn to me, When village bells awake the day ; And, by their sacred minstrelsy, Call me from earthly cares away. And dear to me the winged hour, Spent in Thy hallowed courts, O Lord ! To feel devotion's soothing power, And catch the manna of Thy word. And dear to me the loud Amen...
Página 91 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Página 4 - If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.— That strain again;— it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.— Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
Página 47 - First the flaming red Sprung vivid forth ; the tawny orange next ; And next delicious yellow ; by whose side Fell the kind beams of all-refreshing green. Then the pure blue, that swells autumnal skies, Ethereal...
Página 80 - Wrought through varieties of shape and shade, In ample folds of drapery divine, Thy flowing mantle form ; and, heaven throughout, Voluminously pour thy pompous train.