The Recreations of Christopher North, Volumen2William Blackwood & sons, 1842 |
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... clouds ! Or for some grotesque and fantastic ash , with a crooked back , and arms dis- proportionately long , like a giant in extreme old age dwindling into a dwarf , to jut out from the hole in the wall , and should your leaden eye ...
... clouds ! Or for some grotesque and fantastic ash , with a crooked back , and arms dis- proportionately long , like a giant in extreme old age dwindling into a dwarf , to jut out from the hole in the wall , and should your leaden eye ...
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... cloud - capped head - but we have clean forgotten the silver sound of the name of the county he encumbers . Ross - shire ? Nay , that won't do he never was at Tain . We are assured by Dr Reid's , Dr Beattie's , and Dugald Stewart's ...
... cloud - capped head - but we have clean forgotten the silver sound of the name of the county he encumbers . Ross - shire ? Nay , that won't do he never was at Tain . We are assured by Dr Reid's , Dr Beattie's , and Dugald Stewart's ...
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... cloud on the sky of the Longest Day when it falls on the Sabbath . What think you of OUR FATHER , alongside of the Pedlar in the Excursion ? Wordsworth says- " Amid the gloom , Spread by a brotherhood of lofty elms , Appear'd a roofless ...
... cloud on the sky of the Longest Day when it falls on the Sabbath . What think you of OUR FATHER , alongside of the Pedlar in the Excursion ? Wordsworth says- " Amid the gloom , Spread by a brotherhood of lofty elms , Appear'd a roofless ...
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... clouds , ) did now impel His restless mind to look abroad with hope . " It had become his duty to choose a profession - a trade -a calling . He was not a gentleman , mind ye , and had probably never so much as heard a rumour of the ...
... clouds , ) did now impel His restless mind to look abroad with hope . " It had become his duty to choose a profession - a trade -a calling . He was not a gentleman , mind ye , and had probably never so much as heard a rumour of the ...
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... clouds . The Cordilleras - but we must not be personal - so suffice it to say , that soul , not size , equally in mountains and in men , is and inspires the true sub- lime . Mont Blanc might be as big again ; but what then , if without ...
... clouds . The Cordilleras - but we must not be personal - so suffice it to say , that soul , not size , equally in mountains and in men , is and inspires the true sub- lime . Mont Blanc might be as big again ; but what then , if without ...
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Página 134 - Live you ? or are you aught That man may question ? You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips. — You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.
Página 59 - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as, at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between...
Página 379 - When they had heard the king they departed; and lo the star, which they saw in the east, went before them till it came and stood over where the young child was. When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy.
Página 350 - So still an image of tranquillity, So calm and still, and looked so beautiful Amid the uneasy thoughts which filled my mind...
Página 27 - Bear me to the heart of France Is the longing of the shield — Tell thy name, thou trembling field! Field of death, where'er thou be, Groan thou with our victory! Happy day, and mighty hour, When our shepherd, in his power, Mailed and horsed with lance and sword, To his ancestors restored, Like a re-appearing star, Like a glory from afar, First shall head the flock of war!
Página 377 - Yea, though I walk in death's dark vale, Yet will I fear none ill ; For thou art with me ; and thy rod And staff me comfort still.
Página 347 - She was a woman of a steady mind, Tender and deep in her excess of love, Not speaking much, pleased rather with the joy Of her own thoughts : by some especial care Her temper had been framed, as if to make A being — who by adding love to peace Might live on earth a life of happiness.
Página 197 - That, in the merry months o' spring, Delighted me to hear thee sing, What comes o
Página 332 - Lastly, whatsoever in religion is holy and sublime, in virtue amiable or grave, whatsoever hath passion or admiration in all the changes of that which is called fortune from without, or the wily subtleties and refluxes of man's thoughts from within ; all these things with a solid and treatable smoothness to paint out and describe.
Página 332 - ... to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune; to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his church...