The Land We Live in: The Midland counties and the East coast of EnglandWilliam S. Orr & Company, 1856 |
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... portion of new matter has been added , generally from the pen of some author well acquainted with the locality . The ... portions of the " LAND WE LIVE IN . " ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS . INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER . THE ROAD iv PREFACE .
... portion of new matter has been added , generally from the pen of some author well acquainted with the locality . The ... portions of the " LAND WE LIVE IN . " ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS . INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER . THE ROAD iv PREFACE .
الصفحة xvi
... portions of the archipelago are very unequally distributed . They are prolongations of the western and northern ... portion of the sea , extends from S.W. to N.E. , or from the Land's End to Winterton Ness on the Norfolk coast ...
... portions of the archipelago are very unequally distributed . They are prolongations of the western and northern ... portion of the sea , extends from S.W. to N.E. , or from the Land's End to Winterton Ness on the Norfolk coast ...
الصفحة xvi
... portions by the valley of the Derwent , extending east and west , the northern portion forming the Egton or North York Moors , and the southern the Yorkshire Wolds . The former district has a general elevation of 1000 feet , but rises ...
... portions by the valley of the Derwent , extending east and west , the northern portion forming the Egton or North York Moors , and the southern the Yorkshire Wolds . The former district has a general elevation of 1000 feet , but rises ...
الصفحة xvi
... portions of the mountain system of Wales . The Malverns form a beautiful ridge , extending about eight miles , but ... portion of the southern counties belongs to the South British highlands , near the junction of Wilts , Hants , and ...
... portions of the mountain system of Wales . The Malverns form a beautiful ridge , extending about eight miles , but ... portion of the southern counties belongs to the South British highlands , near the junction of Wilts , Hants , and ...
الصفحة xvi
... portion belongs to Lincolnshire , and includes the whole of that division of the county appropriately called Holland , hollow or low land , resembling in its physical features the Dutch province of that name . The great amount of land ...
... portion belongs to Lincolnshire , and includes the whole of that division of the county appropriately called Holland , hollow or low land , resembling in its physical features the Dutch province of that name . The great amount of land ...
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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...