First Impressions of England and Its PeopleJ. Johnstone, 1847 - 411 pagina's |
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Pagina viii
... green light of the dim twilight caverns within . Society in England , in the present day , exists , like the thawing iceberg , in a transition state , and presents its consequent shiftings of aspect and changes of feature ; and such is ...
... green light of the dim twilight caverns within . Society in England , in the present day , exists , like the thawing iceberg , in a transition state , and presents its consequent shiftings of aspect and changes of feature ; and such is ...
Pagina 3
... green hills , delicately chequered with light and shadow , swelled upwards on either side towards the line of boundary , like the billows of opposing tide - ways , that rise over the gene- ral level where the currents meet ; and passing ...
... green hills , delicately chequered with light and shadow , swelled upwards on either side towards the line of boundary , like the billows of opposing tide - ways , that rise over the gene- ral level where the currents meet ; and passing ...
Pagina 6
... green , and closely reticulated with hedge - rows ; the farm - houses and gentlemen's seats thickened as we advanced ; and England assumed its proper character . With a change of scenery , however , we experienced a change of weather ...
... green , and closely reticulated with hedge - rows ; the farm - houses and gentlemen's seats thickened as we advanced ; and England assumed its proper character . With a change of scenery , however , we experienced a change of weather ...
Pagina 26
... green cultivation on the edge of the land , and all within is brown heath and shaggy forest . In England , on the contrary , one often travels , stage after stage , through an unvarying expanse of flat fields laid out on the level ...
... green cultivation on the edge of the land , and all within is brown heath and shaggy forest . In England , on the contrary , one often travels , stage after stage , through an unvarying expanse of flat fields laid out on the level ...
Pagina 27
... green wave ever rises and falls along dim re- sounding caverns , -by some lonely glen , with its old pine forests hanging dark on the slopes , and its deep brown river roaring over linn and shallow in its headlong course to the sea ...
... green wave ever rises and falls along dim re- sounding caverns , -by some lonely glen , with its old pine forests hanging dark on the slopes , and its deep brown river roaring over linn and shallow in its headlong course to the sea ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 253 - First, I commend my soul into the hands of God my creator, hoping, and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting; and my body to the earth whereof it is made.
Pagina 345 - Tis a note of enchantment ; what ails her ? She sees A mountain ascending, a vision of trees; Bright volumes of vapour through Lothbury glide, And a river flows on through the vale of Cheapside.
Pagina 309 - And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi. And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
Pagina 274 - Within the twilight of their distant shades; There, lost behind a rising ground, the wood Seems sunk, and shortened to its topmost boughs. No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar; paler some.
Pagina 51 - mid th' unrustling reed, At those mirk hours the wily monster lies, And listens oft to hear the passing steed, And frequent round him rolls his sullen eyes, If chance his savage wrath may some weak wretch surprise.
Pagina 211 - Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Pagina 273 - So strong the zeal to immortalize himself Beats in the breast of man, that e'en a few, Few transient years, won from th' abyss abhorr'd Of blank oblivion, seem a glorious prize, And even to a clown. Now roves the eye ; And, posted on this speculative height, Exults in its command. The sheepfold here Pours out its fleecy tenants o'er the glebe.
Pagina 309 - And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein ; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
Pagina 23 - Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chilness to my trembling heart.
Pagina 116 - Her speech was the melodious voice of Love, Her song the warbling of the vernal grove ; Her eloquence was sweeter than her song, Soft as her heart, and as her reason strong; Her form each beauty of her mind express'd, Her mind was Virtue by the Graces dress'd.