The Saturday Magazine, Volume 18John William Parker, 1841 |
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... distance of about two miles . Banbury is a considerable market town , twenty - two the grammar be there taught " after the manner of the school at Banbury , in Oxfordshire , which is called Stan- bridge grammar . " ' In proceeding from ...
... distance of about two miles . Banbury is a considerable market town , twenty - two the grammar be there taught " after the manner of the school at Banbury , in Oxfordshire , which is called Stan- bridge grammar . " ' In proceeding from ...
Pagina 2
... distance of about two miles . Banbury is a considerable market town , twenty - two | miles from Oxford , and seventy - three from London , and contains between five and six thousand inhabitants , This place is supposed to have been ...
... distance of about two miles . Banbury is a considerable market town , twenty - two | miles from Oxford , and seventy - three from London , and contains between five and six thousand inhabitants , This place is supposed to have been ...
Pagina 5
... distance of about sixty miles north - west of the Morea , a small gulf branches out from the Adriatic , called the Gulf of Arta ; at the entrance of which is a commercial town of some importance , called Prevesa . Forty miles northward ...
... distance of about sixty miles north - west of the Morea , a small gulf branches out from the Adriatic , called the Gulf of Arta ; at the entrance of which is a commercial town of some importance , called Prevesa . Forty miles northward ...
Pagina 6
... distances round the walls , and on these are hung sabres , daggers , pistols , & c . , all profusely ornamented with gold and jewels . A carpet covers the floor ; and round three sides of the room are ranged divans , or platforms ...
... distances round the walls , and on these are hung sabres , daggers , pistols , & c . , all profusely ornamented with gold and jewels . A carpet covers the floor ; and round three sides of the room are ranged divans , or platforms ...
Pagina 7
... distance . The supply of water to both lakes , is derived from springs , and from the various mountain torrents which descend into them . There is a considerable amount of trade carried on at Joannina . The chief article of importation ...
... distance . The supply of water to both lakes , is derived from springs , and from the various mountain torrents which descend into them . There is a considerable amount of trade carried on at Joannina . The chief article of importation ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 231 - To build, to plant, whatever you intend. To rear the column, or the arch to bend, To swell the terrace, or to sink the grot; In all, let nature never be forgot.
Pagina 204 - O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever ; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm.
Pagina 188 - ... secures us from weariness of ourselves, but no sooner do we sit down to enjoy our acquisitions than we find them insufficient to fill up the vacuities of life.
Pagina 188 - A man who has been brought up among books, and is able to talk of nothing else, is a very indifferent companion, and what we call a pedant. But, methinks, we should enlarge the title, and give it to every one that does not know how to think out of his profession and particular way of life.
Pagina 237 - twixt anger, shame, and fear, Those for what's past, and this for what's too near, My eye, descending from the hill, surveys Where Thames among the wanton valleys strays. Thames, the most lov'd of all the Ocean's sons By his old sire, to his embraces runs ; Hasting to pay his tribute to the sea, Like mortal life to meet eternity. Though with those streams he no resemblance hoi*. Whose foam is amber, and their gravel gold, His genuine and less guilty wealth t...
Pagina 32 - Remember all who love thee, All who are loved by thee, Pray too for those who hate thee, If any such there be. Then for thyself in meekness, A blessing humbly claim, And link with each petition, Thy great Redeemer's name.
Pagina 192 - Frugality may be termed the daughter of prudence, the sister of temperance, and the parent of liberty. He that is extravagant will quickly become poor, and po'verty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption...
Pagina 111 - And let us linger in this place, for an instant, to remark, that if ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor. The ties that bind the. wealthy and the proud to home, may be forged on earth ; but those which link the poor man to his humble hearth, are of the true metal, and bear the stamp of heaven.
Pagina 241 - With eye attentive mark the springing game. Straight as above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or urg'd by hunger leap, Then fix, with gentle twitch, the barbed hook...
Pagina 241 - There throw, nice-judging, the delusive fly; And as you lead it round in artful curve, With eye attentive mark the springing game.