European Historical Collections: Comprising England, Scotland, with Holland, Belgium, and Part of France ...Barber, 1855 - 568 páginas |
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... situated at the south - eastern point of Eng- land , seventy - two miles E. S. E. of London , and sixteen from Can- terbury . The Straits of Dover , separating England from France , are , in the narrowest part , twenty - one miles wide ...
... situated at the south - eastern point of Eng- land , seventy - two miles E. S. E. of London , and sixteen from Can- terbury . The Straits of Dover , separating England from France , are , in the narrowest part , twenty - one miles wide ...
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... situated on the river Stour , in a fertile valley about two miles wide , surrounded by hills of a moderate height . The present population is a little upward of 8,000 . Troops are generally quartered here , for whose accommodation there ...
... situated on the river Stour , in a fertile valley about two miles wide , surrounded by hills of a moderate height . The present population is a little upward of 8,000 . Troops are generally quartered here , for whose accommodation there ...
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... situated on the common . The chief building on the grounds is the Rotunda , a circular structure raised on an ele- vated site in a tent - like form . This building is twenty - four sided , and 120 feet in diameter , and was at first ...
... situated on the common . The chief building on the grounds is the Rotunda , a circular structure raised on an ele- vated site in a tent - like form . This building is twenty - four sided , and 120 feet in diameter , and was at first ...
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... situated on the southern bank of the Thames , five miles from London . This magnificent institution was founded by William and Mary , in 1694 , for maintaining , lodging , and clothing 300 maimed seamen , a num- ber which since has ...
... situated on the southern bank of the Thames , five miles from London . This magnificent institution was founded by William and Mary , in 1694 , for maintaining , lodging , and clothing 300 maimed seamen , a num- ber which since has ...
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... situated in Greenwich Park , on its elevated grounds back of the Hospital . Considering their import- ance , the Observatory buildings are of an inferior character compared with many other public structures . The spire on the eastern ...
... situated in Greenwich Park , on its elevated grounds back of the Hospital . Considering their import- ance , the Observatory buildings are of an inferior character compared with many other public structures . The spire on the eastern ...
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Página 116 - For saddle-tree scarce reached had he, His journey to begin, When, turning round his head, he saw Three customers come in. So down he came; for loss of time, Although it grieved him sore, Yet loss of pence, full well he knew, Would trouble him much more. Twas long before the customers Were suited to their mind, When Betty screaming came down stairs, 'The wine is left behind!' 'Good lack,' quoth he — 'yet bring it me, My leathern belt likewise, In which I bear my trusty sword, When I do exercise.
Página 49 - Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, ' Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away To meet the sun upon the upland lawn.
Página 116 - My sister and my sister's child, Myself and children three, Will fill the chaise ; so you must ride On horseback after we. He soon replied, I do admire Of womankind but one, And you are she my dearest dear, Therefore it shall be done, I am a linen-draper bold, As all the world doth know, And my good friend the calender Will lend his horse to go. Quoth Mrs. Gilpin, That's well said ; And for that wine is dear, We will be furnished with our own, Which is both bright and clear.
Página 56 - If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way...
Página 48 - Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood ; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest ; Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. Th' applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Página 118 - Ah ! luckless speech and bootless boast ! For which he paid full dear ; For, while he spake, a braying ass Did sing most loud and clear. Whereat his horse did snort, as he Had heard a lion roar, And gallop'd off with all his might, As he had done before.
Página 76 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
Página 56 - FATHER of all! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord! Thou Great First Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind...
Página 47 - THE CURFEW tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Página 439 - When the world is dark with tempests, when thunder rolls and lightning flies, thou lookest in thy beauty from the clouds, and laughest at the storm. But to Ossian thou lookest in vain, for he beholds thy beams no more; whether thy yellow hair flows on the eastern clouds, or thou tremblest at the gates of the west. But thou art perhaps, like me, for a season; thy years will have an end. Thou shalt sleep in thy clouds careless of the voice of the morning.