The Peerage of Poverty: Or, Learners and Workers in Fields, Farms, and FactoriesS. W. Partridge, 1870 - 493 pagina's |
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Pagina 26
... heavens , contemplated through the alternations of hope and despondency , are the principal sources whence the youth , whose adverse circumstances and resignation under them extort our sympathy , drew the faithful and vivid pic- tures ...
... heavens , contemplated through the alternations of hope and despondency , are the principal sources whence the youth , whose adverse circumstances and resignation under them extort our sympathy , drew the faithful and vivid pic- tures ...
Pagina 29
... heaven and earth met ; he found that , nearly seventy years afterwards , in spite of Earl Fitzwilliam , in the little village churchyard ; but that first ramble was not a bad parable of his whole future life . The " Fen country " was ...
... heaven and earth met ; he found that , nearly seventy years afterwards , in spite of Earl Fitzwilliam , in the little village churchyard ; but that first ramble was not a bad parable of his whole future life . The " Fen country " was ...
Pagina 60
... heaven's breath , So now on earth , and on the lap of death It smiles for ever . - Cowslip of gold bloom , That in the pasture and the meadow come , Shall come when kings and empires fade and die ; And in the closes , as Time's partners ...
... heaven's breath , So now on earth , and on the lap of death It smiles for ever . - Cowslip of gold bloom , That in the pasture and the meadow come , Shall come when kings and empires fade and die ; And in the closes , as Time's partners ...
Pagina 70
... heavens rain down with the dew , Till I see the tired hedger bend wearily by , Then like a tired bird to my corner I fly . It would be too much to expect that all the pages of our peasant poet have an equal beauty and purity of verse ...
... heavens rain down with the dew , Till I see the tired hedger bend wearily by , Then like a tired bird to my corner I fly . It would be too much to expect that all the pages of our peasant poet have an equal beauty and purity of verse ...
Pagina 71
... heaven , Left thee impure , to mend . Thus Providence will oft appear From God's own mouth to preach : Ah ! would we were as prone to hear As Mercy is to teach ! 71 Of course it was in him also to find the pensive teachings of nature ...
... heaven , Left thee impure , to mend . Thus Providence will oft appear From God's own mouth to preach : Ah ! would we were as prone to hear As Mercy is to teach ! 71 Of course it was in him also to find the pensive teachings of nature ...
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Albert Durer auld beautiful became beneath bird born character cloth colours Corn Laws cottage Crown 8vo dark David Gray Earl Fitzwilliam earth Ebenezer Elliott eminent England fancy Faraday father feeling fire flowers forest genius give Goddess of Poverty hand happy heart heaven Helpston honour human humble Illustrations JAMES HOGG John Clare labour learned light live London look Lord lowly Market Deeping master memory mind morning mother mountains Nature never Nicoll night noble Northamptonshire o'er Palissy passed peasant poems poet poetry poor poor Clare PURGATORY OF SUICIDES Radstock reader Robert Nicoll SAMUEL DREW says scarcely scenery scenes Scotland seems shepherd shine sing song soul spirit strong sweet taste thee things thou thought tion toil trees truth verses village walk wild wonderful words write young
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Pagina 402 - And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.
Pagina 121 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault. The village all declared how much he knew : 'Twas certain he could write, and cipher, too ; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And e'en the story ran — that he could gauge.
Pagina 151 - Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel ? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.
Pagina 262 - For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace : the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
Pagina 282 - Where is the wise ? where is the scribe ? where is the disputer of this world ? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world ? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
Pagina 359 - Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the lesson thou hast taught ! Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought ; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought ! ENDYMION.
Pagina 289 - The primal duties shine aloft — like stars ; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man — like flowers.
Pagina 361 - COME, see the Dolphin's anchor forged! 'tis at a white heat now — The bellows ceased, the flames decreased; though, on the forge's brow, The little flames still fitfully play through the sable mound. And fitfully you still may see the grim smiths ranking round; All clad in leathern panoply, their broad hands only bare. Some rest upon their sledges here, some work the windlass there.
Pagina 46 - I AM ! yet what I am none cares or knows, My friends forsake me like a memory lost; I am the self-consumer of my woes...
Pagina 396 - Dutch settlement, was not, as might have been expected, in the best order; the apartment had not been regularly ventilated, and, either from this circumstance, or already affected by the fatal sickness peculiar to Batavia, Leyden, when he left the place, had a fit of shivering, and declared the atmosphere was enough to give any mortal a fever. The presage was too just; he took his bed, and died in three days, on the eve of the battle which gave Java to the British empire.