First Impressions of England and Its PeopleGould and Lincoln, 1851 - 430 páginas |
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... feels himself in exactly the circumstances of the traveller who jour- neys amid the deserts of Sinai , and sees the front of almost every precipice roughened with antique inscriptions of which he has just discovered the key ...
... feels himself in exactly the circumstances of the traveller who jour- neys amid the deserts of Sinai , and sees the front of almost every precipice roughened with antique inscriptions of which he has just discovered the key ...
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... Feeling of England well exemplified by the Fact . — Its Origin and History . - Decline . — Infidelity naturally favorable to the Resuscitation and Reproduction of Popery . - The two Naileresses . Cecilia and Delia . Skeleton Description ...
... Feeling of England well exemplified by the Fact . — Its Origin and History . - Decline . — Infidelity naturally favorable to the Resuscitation and Reproduction of Popery . - The two Naileresses . Cecilia and Delia . Skeleton Description ...
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... feeling seemed not inadequately expressed by a staid elderly farmer , with whom I afterwards travelled from York to Manchester . " I am sure , " he said , looking out into the rain , which was beating at the time with great violence ...
... feeling seemed not inadequately expressed by a staid elderly farmer , with whom I afterwards travelled from York to Manchester . " I am sure , " he said , looking out into the rain , which was beating at the time with great violence ...
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... feeling than any mere work of art had ever awakened in me before . The impression more resembled what I have sometimes experienced on some solitary ocean shore , o'erhung by dizzy precipices , and lashed high by the foaming surf ; or ...
... feeling than any mere work of art had ever awakened in me before . The impression more resembled what I have sometimes experienced on some solitary ocean shore , o'erhung by dizzy precipices , and lashed high by the foaming surf ; or ...
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... feeling of the previous evening . Never before had I seen so noble a cover . The ornate complexities of the groined vaulting , the giant columns , with their foliage - bound capi- tals , sweeping away in magnificent perspective , the ...
... feeling of the previous evening . Never before had I seen so noble a cover . The ornate complexities of the groined vaulting , the giant columns , with their foliage - bound capi- tals , sweeping away in magnificent perspective , the ...
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Página 194 - Tis here with boundless power I reign; And every health which I begin, Converts dull port to bright champagne; Such freedom crowns it at an inn. I fly from pomp, I fly from plate, I fly from falsehood's specious grin! Freedom I love, and form I hate, And choose my lodgings at an inn.
Página 316 - Time made thee what thou wast, king of the woods; And time hath made thee what thou art — a cave For owls to roost in.
Página 248 - Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Página 75 - His glimmering mazes cheer th* excursive sight, Yet turn, ye wanderers, turn your steps aside, Nor trust the guidance of that faithless light; For watchful, lurking, 'mid th' unrustling reed, At those mirk hours the wily monster lies, And listens oft to hear the passing steed, And frequent round him rolls his sullen eyes, If chance his savage wrath may some weak wretch surprise.
Página 310 - So strong the zeal to immortalize himself Beats in the breast of man, that e'en a few, Few transient years, won from th' abyss abhorr'd Of blank oblivion, seem a glorious prize, And even to a clown. Now roves the eye ; And, posted on this speculative height, Exults in its command. The sheepfold here Pours out its fleecy tenants o'er the glebe.
Página 188 - Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to place a bench at every turn where there is an object to catch the view; to make water run where it will be heard, and to stagnate where it will be seen ; to leave intervals where the eye will be pleased, and to thicken the plantation where there is something to be hidden ; demands any great powers of mind, I will not enquire: perhaps a sullen and surly speculator may think such performances rather the sport than the business of human reason.
Página 73 - Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair; Listen for dear honour's sake, Goddess of the silver lake, Listen and save! Listen, and appear to us, In name of great Oceanus. By the earthshaking Neptune's mace, And Tethys...
Página 318 - Stand, never overlook'd our favourite elms, That screen the herdsman's solitary hut; While far beyond, and overthwart the stream, That, as with molten glass, inlays the vale, The sloping land recedes into the clouds; Displaying on its varied side the grace Of hedge-row beauties numberless, square tower, Tall spire, from which the sound of cheerful bells Just undulates upon the listening ear; Groves, heaths, and smoking villages remote.
Página 140 - Her speech was the melodious voice of Love, Her song the warbling of the vernal grove ; Her eloquence was sweeter than her song, Soft as her heart, and as her reason strong; Her form each beauty of her mind express'd, Her mind was Virtue by the Graces dress'd.
Página 47 - Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chilness to my trembling heart.