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Pagina 27
... Tower on have been known to go to Greenwich by steam - boat a certain day , and on that day ( June 26 , 1754 , ) Fielding in one day , in Easter or Whitsun week ! The Irish Rail- went to the Tower Wharf , and was thence lifted into a ...
... Tower on have been known to go to Greenwich by steam - boat a certain day , and on that day ( June 26 , 1754 , ) Fielding in one day , in Easter or Whitsun week ! The Irish Rail- went to the Tower Wharf , and was thence lifted into a ...
Pagina 54
... tower and pro- jecting wings . The style adopted is the Tudor , of that variety sometimes termed the Collegiate ; and , though rather sparingly ornamented , has a very excellent and somewhat imposing effect ; and reflects great credit ...
... tower and pro- jecting wings . The style adopted is the Tudor , of that variety sometimes termed the Collegiate ; and , though rather sparingly ornamented , has a very excellent and somewhat imposing effect ; and reflects great credit ...
Pagina 55
... tower , is modern and mean . The tower , which is rudely built of flint and stone , is low and embattled ; and though somewhat injured by modern alterations , has a venerable air . The body of the church is of brick , and very plain ...
... tower , is modern and mean . The tower , which is rudely built of flint and stone , is low and embattled ; and though somewhat injured by modern alterations , has a venerable air . The body of the church is of brick , and very plain ...
Pagina 58
... tower or spire , marking the site of a goodly town or humble village . In the midst the broad placid river , studded ... towers , which loom out so finely on the distant horizon . Nothing , however , but poetry can properly describe the ...
... tower or spire , marking the site of a goodly town or humble village . In the midst the broad placid river , studded ... towers , which loom out so finely on the distant horizon . Nothing , however , but poetry can properly describe the ...
Pagina 63
... tower . There is the tower -that of Kingston - seen through the frame of those noble oaks . The whole scene is a picture - it has all the elements of a picture — it is complete in itself . Fore- ground - bright hawthorns ; middle ...
... tower . There is the tower -that of Kingston - seen through the frame of those noble oaks . The whole scene is a picture - it has all the elements of a picture — it is complete in itself . Fore- ground - bright hawthorns ; middle ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 15 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Pagina 3 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Pagina 12 - And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.
Pagina 221 - The current, that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage; But, when his fair course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with the enamell'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage, And so by many winding nooks he strays, With willing sport, to- the wild ocean.
Pagina 218 - And though this, probably the first essay of his poetry be lost, yet it is said to have been so very bitter that it redoubled the prosecution against him to that degree, that he was...
Pagina 115 - HERE lies old Hobson ; death hath broke his girt And here, alas, hath laid him in the dirt; Or else the ways being foul, twenty to one, He's here stuck in a slough, and overthrown.
Pagina 325 - ... the black faces, the long beards, the yellow streaks of sect, the turbans and the flowing robes, the spears and the silver maces, the elephants with their canopies of state, the gorgeous palanquin of the prince, and the close litter of the noble lady...
Pagina 58 - Now to the sister hills that skirt her plain, To lofty Harrow now, and now to where Majestic Windsor lifts his princely brow. In lovely contrast to this glorious view, Calmly magnificent, then will we turn To where the silver Thames first rural grows.
Pagina 218 - In this kind of settlement he continued for : some time, till an extravagance that he was guilty of, forced him both out of his country, and that way of living which he had taken up...
Pagina 13 - We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate.