The land we live in, a pictorial and literary sketch-book of the British empire1847 |
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... lived near Preston , says , " I got to London on Saturday last . My journey was noways pleasant , being forced to ride in the boot all the way . The company that came up with me were persons of great quality , as knights and ladies . My ...
... lived near Preston , says , " I got to London on Saturday last . My journey was noways pleasant , being forced to ride in the boot all the way . The company that came up with me were persons of great quality , as knights and ladies . My ...
الصفحة 15
... lived in the sober days of seven miles an hour " Come , if you dare , " in the days before steam had cannot quite throw it off . Happy is it that the iden- remodelled its communications . The first pulsation tical power which so ...
... lived in the sober days of seven miles an hour " Come , if you dare , " in the days before steam had cannot quite throw it off . Happy is it that the iden- remodelled its communications . The first pulsation tical power which so ...
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... lived in Scotland about fifty years ago , is the following notice of the ferry passage from Kinghorn to Leith across the Forth , just opposite the last - named town : - " In a large boat , the passenger pays sixpence ; in a pinnace ...
... lived in Scotland about fifty years ago , is the following notice of the ferry passage from Kinghorn to Leith across the Forth , just opposite the last - named town : - " In a large boat , the passenger pays sixpence ; in a pinnace ...
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... lived about or soon after the period of the Israelitish bondage in that country ; and thence are obtained many instruc- tive elucidations of the practices which the Israelites followed immediately after their release from this bondage ...
... lived about or soon after the period of the Israelitish bondage in that country ; and thence are obtained many instruc- tive elucidations of the practices which the Israelites followed immediately after their release from this bondage ...
الصفحة 53
... lived in it : it was pulled down about 1776 . On a spot of ground now included within the limits of the Old Park , and marked by some ancient trees , and a slight unevenness of the surface , once stood a famous religious establishment ...
... lived in it : it was pulled down about 1776 . On a spot of ground now included within the limits of the Old Park , and marked by some ancient trees , and a slight unevenness of the surface , once stood a famous religious establishment ...
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الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.