A Month in EnglandRedfield, 1853 - 243 páginas |
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... darkness comes ; and I felt how justly we forget the conventional distinctions of Christianity , in view of a character imbued with its essential spirit . It is a singular fact , that the busy scenes , and palpable results of traffic ...
... darkness comes ; and I felt how justly we forget the conventional distinctions of Christianity , in view of a character imbued with its essential spirit . It is a singular fact , that the busy scenes , and palpable results of traffic ...
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... St. Giles's church , Cripplegate , be- fore that personage ushered me urbanely into the aisle . The roof of the building is modern , but the dark carvings on pulpit and choir indicate an age of 30 A MONTH IN ENGLAND .
... St. Giles's church , Cripplegate , be- fore that personage ushered me urbanely into the aisle . The roof of the building is modern , but the dark carvings on pulpit and choir indicate an age of 30 A MONTH IN ENGLAND .
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Henry Theodore Tuckerman. dark carvings on pulpit and choir indicate an age of two centuries . I stood at the altar where Crom- well and Ben Jonson were married ; marked the pavement beneath which Fox , the author of " The Book of ...
Henry Theodore Tuckerman. dark carvings on pulpit and choir indicate an age of two centuries . I stood at the altar where Crom- well and Ben Jonson were married ; marked the pavement beneath which Fox , the author of " The Book of ...
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... dark with Grub street privation , fancied in each countenance a smile of complacency ; for the spir- ited face of Byron that here looks down on you , seems innocent of all misanthropy ; Scott appears too healthy to worry about his ...
... dark with Grub street privation , fancied in each countenance a smile of complacency ; for the spir- ited face of Byron that here looks down on you , seems innocent of all misanthropy ; Scott appears too healthy to worry about his ...
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... dark , hoary , massive wall of the old Bailey rose before me like a remembered horror . The dense crowd in the square , even to the individuals , looked fa- miliar . The polished hat - tops of the policemen gleaming in the mist over the ...
... dark , hoary , massive wall of the old Bailey rose before me like a remembered horror . The dense crowd in the square , even to the individuals , looked fa- miliar . The polished hat - tops of the policemen gleaming in the mist over the ...
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American amid ancient Anne Boleyn antique Apsley house ARSENE HOUSSAYE artist bard beauty behold Ben Jonson castle chapel character charm cheerful Chester church Clovernook court crowded Daily dark delight domestic duke edition effigies eloquent England English escutcheon Eton College expression familiar fancy fresh gaze genius George's chapel graceful heart HENRY WILLIAM HERBERT human idea illustrated imagination intellectual interest Italy John Bull Journal labor landscape light lion literary literature lofty London look memory ment mind modern muse nature noble Oliver Twist once painter picture picturesque poet portraits quaint reader realize recognised romance rural scene seemed sentiment Shakspere social specimens spirit stranger street style taste temple thought tion Titian towers triumphs trophies truth Uncle Uncle Tom vast venerable vivid volume walk walls Warwick castle window Windsor Windsor castle wonderful
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Página 216 - No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell : Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it ; for I love you so That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, If thinking on me then should make you woe.
Página 153 - This cardinal, Though from an humble stock, undoubtedly Was fashion'd to much honour. From his cradle He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Lofty and sour to them that loved him not ; But, to those men that sought him, sweet as summer...
Página 26 - FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew ; The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well : Remote from man, with God he pass'd the days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.
Página 109 - Thy Forests, Windsor! and thy green Retreats, At once the Monarch's and the Muse's Seats, Invite my Lays. Be present, Sylvan Maids! Unlock your Springs, and open all your Shades.
Página 109 - Ye distant spires, ye antique towers, That crown the watery glade, Where grateful Science still adores Her Henry's holy shade ; And ye, that from the stately brow Of Windsor's heights th...
Página 112 - There is an old tale goes, that Herne the hunter, Sometime a keeper here in Windsor forest, Doth all the winter time, at still midnight, Walk round about an oak, with great ragg'd horns; And there he blasts the tree, and takes the cattle ; And makes milch-kine yield blood, and shakes a chain In a most hideous and dreadful manner...
Página 110 - A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to...
Página 205 - Ah, what a life were this ! how sweet ! how lovely ! Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings, that fear their subjects
Página 217 - Lest the wise world should look into your moan And mock you with me after I am gone.
Página 48 - I never shall forget the tremulous earnestness with which he pronounced the awful petition in the Litany : — "In the hour of death, and at the day of judgment, good Lord deliver us.