First Impressions of England and Its PeopleJ. Johnstone, 1847 - 411 pagina's |
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Pagina vii
... least see some- thing that exceedingly resembles it in that actual economy of change and revolution manifested in English history for the last two cen- turies . It would seem as if events , in their downward course , had come under the ...
... least see some- thing that exceedingly resembles it in that actual economy of change and revolution manifested in English history for the last two cen- turies . It would seem as if events , in their downward course , had come under the ...
Pagina viii
... least not less considerable than the rains and tempests of the Autumn of Forty - Five . The growing Tractarianism of the National Church threatens to work greater changes than the bad potatoes ; and the semi VIII TO THE READER .
... least not less considerable than the rains and tempests of the Autumn of Forty - Five . The growing Tractarianism of the National Church threatens to work greater changes than the bad potatoes ; and the semi VIII TO THE READER .
Pagina 2
... least half my self - imposed task at an end . When labouring professionally , however , during the previous winter ... least , I had to give up all thought of visiting Orkney . " I shall cross the Border , " I said , " and get into ...
... least half my self - imposed task at an end . When labouring professionally , however , during the previous winter ... least , I had to give up all thought of visiting Orkney . " I shall cross the Border , " I said , " and get into ...
Pagina 12
... least its leading features , however , the story embodied is remarkably clear . First , we have evidence that in those remote times , when the northern half of the island had just become a home of men , the land was forest - covered ...
... least its leading features , however , the story embodied is remarkably clear . First , we have evidence that in those remote times , when the northern half of the island had just become a home of men , the land was forest - covered ...
Pagina 18
... least reached the British Channel . Never surely was the north of Eng- land seen more thoroughly in dishabille . The dark woods and thick - set hedgerows looked blue and dim through the haze , like the mimic woodlands of a half ...
... least reached the British Channel . Never surely was the north of Eng- land seen more thoroughly in dishabille . The dark woods and thick - set hedgerows looked blue and dim through the haze , like the mimic woodlands of a half ...
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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.