The Land We Live in: The Midland counties and the East coast of EnglandWilliam S. Orr & Company, 1856 |
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الصفحة xxii
... stands up against the wildest buffets of fate with an equal mind . Poetry is not the exclusive property of any age , or any class , or any locality . Manchester has its poetry , as much as Loch Katrine . We admit that Roger North was ...
... stands up against the wildest buffets of fate with an equal mind . Poetry is not the exclusive property of any age , or any class , or any locality . Manchester has its poetry , as much as Loch Katrine . We admit that Roger North was ...
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... stands on a hill ; but the loss of the | coaching trade , by the substitution of the railroad , has proved a serious blow to the leading interests of the town . The rivers flowing through Bucks are the Ouse and the Thame . The Ouse ...
... stands on a hill ; but the loss of the | coaching trade , by the substitution of the railroad , has proved a serious blow to the leading interests of the town . The rivers flowing through Bucks are the Ouse and the Thame . The Ouse ...
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... Stand , never overlooked , our fav'rite elms That screened the herdsman's solitary hut ; While far beyond , and ... stands in an open area in the centre of the market - place , and is twenty - seven feet high above the basement ...
... Stand , never overlooked , our fav'rite elms That screened the herdsman's solitary hut ; While far beyond , and ... stands in an open area in the centre of the market - place , and is twenty - seven feet high above the basement ...
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... stands just by the Theatre : it is a neat building , which was erected out of the profits of the University edition of Clarendon's History , whence its name ; Vanbrugh was the architect . It was used as the University printing office ...
... stands just by the Theatre : it is a neat building , which was erected out of the profits of the University edition of Clarendon's History , whence its name ; Vanbrugh was the architect . It was used as the University printing office ...
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... stands Oriel College , a much older establishment ; it having been founded in 1326 , by Edward II . , at the ... stand pre - eminent . William Prynne , the celebrated Parliament scribe , was also one of its members ; and he bequeathed ...
... stands Oriel College , a much older establishment ; it having been founded in 1326 , by Edward II . , at the ... stand pre - eminent . William Prynne , the celebrated Parliament scribe , was also one of its members ; and he bequeathed ...
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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
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...