The Land We Live in: The Midland counties and the East coast of EnglandWilliam S. Orr & Company, 1856 |
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الصفحة xvi
... beautiful ridge , extending about eight miles , but everywhere narrow , swelling into many distinct summits , principally composed of sienite . The mountains of Wales are not continuous with those of the north of England , but separated ...
... beautiful ridge , extending about eight miles , but everywhere narrow , swelling into many distinct summits , principally composed of sienite . The mountains of Wales are not continuous with those of the north of England , but separated ...
الصفحة xxiii
... beautiful lines in a " Highland Glen , " " Yea ! long as Nature's humblest child Hath kept her temple undefiled By sinful sacrifice , Earth's fairest scenes are all his own , He is a monarch , and his throne Is built amongst the skies ...
... beautiful lines in a " Highland Glen , " " Yea ! long as Nature's humblest child Hath kept her temple undefiled By sinful sacrifice , Earth's fairest scenes are all his own , He is a monarch , and his throne Is built amongst the skies ...
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J. Thome.del OXFORD . FROM THE HENLEY ROAD . TA . Prior sc . OXFORD is , indisputably , the most beautiful city in.
J. Thome.del OXFORD . FROM THE HENLEY ROAD . TA . Prior sc . OXFORD is , indisputably , the most beautiful city in.
الصفحة 9
... beautiful city in England . It contains a far larger and richer display of medieval and academic architecture than any other ; and it yields to none in picturesque variety . And as it is the most beautiful , we doubt whether it be not ...
... beautiful city in England . It contains a far larger and richer display of medieval and academic architecture than any other ; and it yields to none in picturesque variety . And as it is the most beautiful , we doubt whether it be not ...
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... beautiful execution , of the Eleanor Cross at Waltham , and the Martyrs ' Memorial at Oxford . Among the " rarities " in the room are a chair made out of the ship in which Drake sailed round the world , and the veritable lantern of ...
... beautiful execution , of the Eleanor Cross at Waltham , and the Martyrs ' Memorial at Oxford . Among the " rarities " in the room are a chair made out of the ship in which Drake sailed round the world , and the veritable lantern of ...
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Abbey Afon Dyfi ancient appearance architecture beautiful Birkenhead Birmingham bridge building built Cader Idris called Capel Curig Carnarvon castle centre century chapel Cheshire Chester church commercial Conway Corwen cotton distance district docks dwellings Earl England English erected establishment extent factories feet ground Hall hills Holyhead houses hundred inhabitants iron lake Lancashire land Liverpool Llangollen Llyn lofty London Macclesfield Manchester manufacture ment merchants Mersey miles mountains nearly neighbourhood neighbouring noble occupied Oxford park pass perhaps picturesque pleasant portion present Prestbury pretty quadrangle railway remarkable river road rock says scene scenery seen Shakspere Shakspere's ships Shottery Shrewsbury side Snowdon Snowdonia spot station Stockport stone Stratford stream streets structure style tetrastyle tion tourist tower town Vale valley village Wales walk walls warehouses Welsh whole Wolverhampton yarn
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 85 - 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.
الصفحة xxi - 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.
الصفحة 142 - There sometimes doth a leaping fish Send through the tarn a lonely cheer; The crags repeat the raven's croak, In symphony austere ; Thither the rainbow comes — the cloud — • And mists that spread the flying shroud ; And sunbeams ; and the sounding blast, That, if it could, would hurry past; But that enormous barrier binds it fast.
الصفحة 82 - 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...
الصفحة 82 - 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...
الصفحة 14 - I know a merchant-man which shall at this time be nameless, that bought the contents of two noble libraries for forty shillings...
الصفحة 78 - The house is shown by a garrulous old lady, in a frosty red face, lighted up by a cold blue anxious eye, and garnished with artificial locks of flaxen hair, curling from under an exceedingly dirty cap. She was peculiarly assiduous in exhibiting the relics with which this, like all other celebrated shrines, abounds.
الصفحة xxi - He has commonly a broad full face, curiously mottled with red, as if the blood had been forced by hard feeding into every vessel of the skin...
الصفحة xxii - 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.
الصفحة 138 - IT is the soul that sees; the outward eyes Present the object, but the mind descries; And thence delight, disgust, or cool indiffrence rise: When minds are joyful, then we look around, And what is seen is all on fairy ground; Again they sicken, and on every view Cast their own dull and melancholy hue; Or, if...