First Impressions of England and Its PeopleJ. Johnstone, 1847 - 411 pagina's |
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Pagina 14
... standing up amid the descending torrents in its ancient grave - yard , like some mass of fretted rock - work enveloped in the play of a fountain . The great door lay open , but I could see little else within than the ranges of antique ...
... standing up amid the descending torrents in its ancient grave - yard , like some mass of fretted rock - work enveloped in the play of a fountain . The great door lay open , but I could see little else within than the ranges of antique ...
Pagina 26
... stands on the New Red Sandstone ; and the broad extent of level fertility which it commands is , to a Scotch eye , very striking . There is no extensive prospect in even the south of Scotland that does not include its wide ranges of ...
... stands on the New Red Sandstone ; and the broad extent of level fertility which it commands is , to a Scotch eye , very striking . There is no extensive prospect in even the south of Scotland that does not include its wide ranges of ...
Pagina 27
... stands , and erected in its room the wooden oratory in which he was baptized , down to the times when little crooked Leslie broke over the city walls at the head of his Covenanters , and held them against the monarch , in the name of ...
... stands , and erected in its room the wooden oratory in which he was baptized , down to the times when little crooked Leslie broke over the city walls at the head of his Covenanters , and held them against the monarch , in the name of ...
Pagina 29
... standing , and so are continually getting into false , unworthy positions , -in some instances falling into little meannesses , in others into contemptible crimes . I am afraid it is all too evident that even the sage Bacon belonged to ...
... standing , and so are continually getting into false , unworthy positions , -in some instances falling into little meannesses , in others into contemptible crimes . I am afraid it is all too evident that even the sage Bacon belonged to ...
Pagina 35
... and Mountain Limestone , -solid deposits of indurated sandstone and crystalline lime , that stand up amid the landscape like the harder strata on the wave - worn sea - coast . On both sides ENGLAND AND ITS PEOPLE . 35.
... and Mountain Limestone , -solid deposits of indurated sandstone and crystalline lime , that stand up amid the landscape like the harder strata on the wave - worn sea - coast . On both sides ENGLAND AND ITS PEOPLE . 35.
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amid ancient beauty Birmingham Carboniferous century character Church Clent Clent Hills Coal Measures coal-field Cowper creation crustacea curious dark deemed deep deposits district Droitwich Dudley earth England English Englishman Eugene Aram exceedingly exhibited existing feet fields fish formation fossils furnished genius geologic geologist greatly green ground Hagely Hales Owen half hill hollow Holoptychius human hundred labours land landscape Leasowes least less Limestone Lord Lyttleton lower marked ment miles mind nailer nature never Newport Pagnell ocean Old Red Sandstone Olney once Oolite passing peculiar picturesque poet poetry poor present prospect Puseyism Puseyite racter rises river rock rock-salt saliferous salt says scarce scene Scotch Scotland seems seen Shakspeare shells Shenstone Shenstone's side Silurian stone stratum stream surface tall thick things tion town traveller trees trilobite true upper valley vast walk walls wood
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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.