A Month in EnglandRedfield, 1853 - 243 páginas |
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... venerable seat of learning ; and these excursions will alternate profitably with metropolitan life . It may seem , however , quite superfluous to record the impressions derived from an experience now become so familiar ; and only when a ...
... venerable seat of learning ; and these excursions will alternate profitably with metropolitan life . It may seem , however , quite superfluous to record the impressions derived from an experience now become so familiar ; and only when a ...
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... venerable Bede , or Dunstan , Alfred and his harp , the dainty Norman , and proud Saxon , Father Chaucer , Sir Thomas More , Cromwell , the merry monarch , and other prominent figures of English history : and to intersperse the epochs ...
... venerable Bede , or Dunstan , Alfred and his harp , the dainty Norman , and proud Saxon , Father Chaucer , Sir Thomas More , Cromwell , the merry monarch , and other prominent figures of English history : and to intersperse the epochs ...
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... venerable citizens gossipping at the city - gate - two boys astride a gray , shaggy donkey -the little shops , dim porticoes , huge exterior wall , and narrow streets , are more like a small inland city of Italy than an English market ...
... venerable citizens gossipping at the city - gate - two boys astride a gray , shaggy donkey -the little shops , dim porticoes , huge exterior wall , and narrow streets , are more like a small inland city of Italy than an English market ...
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... venerable still pre- dominates . Indeed , by revealing many a quaint bit of masonry and dusky nook , the effect in this regard is frequently enhanced . We can then read the inscription on the projecting front of a house , dated 1652 ...
... venerable still pre- dominates . Indeed , by revealing many a quaint bit of masonry and dusky nook , the effect in this regard is frequently enhanced . We can then read the inscription on the projecting front of a house , dated 1652 ...
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... venerable Cripplegate . Over against a pew , a familiar bust marks the spot beneath which are the mortal remains of Milton ; and his epitaph is grand in its simplicity- " The author of Paradise Lost . " He and his father before him were ...
... venerable Cripplegate . Over against a pew , a familiar bust marks the spot beneath which are the mortal remains of Milton ; and his epitaph is grand in its simplicity- " The author of Paradise Lost . " He and his father before him were ...
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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.