The St. James's medley; or, Fiction, facts, and fancies, from the roadside of life1856 |
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... England Aber Hanged or not Hanged In Memoriam Leaves from the Diary of a Blind Traveller - A Peep into Spain by the South of France and the Pyrenees The Unmixables Literary Notices of New Books No. V. 231 250 254 260 261 270 273 ...
... England Aber Hanged or not Hanged In Memoriam Leaves from the Diary of a Blind Traveller - A Peep into Spain by the South of France and the Pyrenees The Unmixables Literary Notices of New Books No. V. 231 250 254 260 261 270 273 ...
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... England are better off than their sisters on the other side of the Straits of Gibraltar . From thence I walked through the town and visited the Bazaars , which I understood , from the description I received of them , did not present any ...
... England are better off than their sisters on the other side of the Straits of Gibraltar . From thence I walked through the town and visited the Bazaars , which I understood , from the description I received of them , did not present any ...
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... England and France had really proved so good a friend to the Grand Defender of the Faith : this interview took place in the open street . After all these official visits , Mr. G - took me to the house of a Mr. Erzerri , who was a person ...
... England and France had really proved so good a friend to the Grand Defender of the Faith : this interview took place in the open street . After all these official visits , Mr. G - took me to the house of a Mr. Erzerri , who was a person ...
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... England . The apartment in which we were received was large and commodious , and was furnished with chairs and tables , after the European fashion . At one end was placed the state bed , covered with hand- some hangings and embroidered ...
... England . The apartment in which we were received was large and commodious , and was furnished with chairs and tables , after the European fashion . At one end was placed the state bed , covered with hand- some hangings and embroidered ...
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... England , in his long- expected post of envoy from the court of Morocco , he would honour me and the Doctor with a visit . His country residence was situated some ten miles from the town of Tetuan , and the road thither was extremely ...
... England , in his long- expected post of envoy from the court of Morocco , he would honour me and the Doctor with a visit . His country residence was situated some ten miles from the town of Tetuan , and the road thither was extremely ...
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The St. James's medley; or, Fiction, facts, and fancies, from the ..., Volumen2 Vista completa - 1858 |
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Algiers amongst appeared army arrived attended beautiful become better body called carried cause Christian Church close comfortable command death doubt Duke England English entered excellent existence eyes fact fish France French gained give hand head heart hundred interest Italy kind King land leave length less light live look Lord means miles mind morning mountains nature never night obliged offered officers once party passed peace period person poor possessed present prince reached readers received remained remarkable rest road round Russian seemed seen side soon streets thing thought thousand took town traveller true turned walk whilst whole young
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Página 62 - And see! the lady Christabel Gathers herself from out her trance; Her limbs relax, her countenance Grows sad and soft; the smooth thin lids Close o'er her eyes; and tears she sheds — Large tears that leave the lashes bright!
Página 67 - Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
Página 67 - Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be; They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they.
Página 62 - Beauteous in a wilderness, Who, praying always, prays in sleep. And, if she move unquietly, Perchance 'tis but the blood so free Comes back and tingles in her feet. No doubt she hath a vision sweet. What if her guardian spirit 'twere ? What if she knew her mother near ? But this she knows, in joys and woes, That saints will aid if men will call, For the blue sky bends over all. PART II Each matin bell, the Baron saith, Knells us back to a world of death.
Página 67 - ... the globes Of her keen eyes And in her raiment's hem was traced in flame WISDOM, a name to shake All evil dreams of power — a sacred name. And when she spake, Her words did gather thunder as they ran, And as the lightning to the thunder Which follows it, riving the spirit of man, Making earth wonder, So was their meaning to her words. No sword Of wrath her right arm whirl'd, But one poor poet's scroll, and with his word She shook the world.
Página 301 - Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian ; and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me.
Página 234 - In short, the inhabitants of St. James's, notwithstanding they live under the same laws, and speak the same language, are a distinct people from those of Cheapside, who are likewise removed from those of the Temple on the one side, and those of Smithfield on the other, by several climates and degrees in their way of thinking and conversing together.
Página 234 - WHEN I consider this great city in its several quarters and divisions, I look upon it as an aggregate of various nations distinguished from each other by their respective customs, manners, and interests. The courts of two countries do not so much differ from one another, as the court and city, in their peculiar ways of life and conversation. In short, the inhabitants of St.
Página 160 - ... much too cunning for that, he does not know who or what you are ; you may be a heron, his mortal enemy, for aught he knows. You move your arm, he thinks it is the heron's bill coming; down he goes again, and you see him not ; a few seconds, he regains courage and reappears, having probably communicated the intelligence to the other frogs ; for many big heads and many big eyes appear, in all parts of the pond, looking like so many Hippopotami on a small scale. Soon a conversational
Página 66 - God keeps His holy mysteries Just on the outside of man's dream. In diapason slow, we think To hear their pinions rise and sink, While they float pure beneath His eyes, Like swans adown a stream.