Shades and Echoes of Old LondonLeisure Hour Office, 1864 - 288 pages |
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Page 9
... turned to stone , and there they stood the memorials of their once living selves . And in Athens there was a second population besides the evanescent one that crowded her streets and climbed her Acropolis ; even the statues which stood ...
... turned to stone , and there they stood the memorials of their once living selves . And in Athens there was a second population besides the evanescent one that crowded her streets and climbed her Acropolis ; even the statues which stood ...
Page 11
... turning from the victory at Poitiers , with John of France as captive ; the city making gala day - displaying triumphal arches , tapestry , plate , and arms - and thousands of faces , peering out at windows , from the roofs of houses ...
... turning from the victory at Poitiers , with John of France as captive ; the city making gala day - displaying triumphal arches , tapestry , plate , and arms - and thousands of faces , peering out at windows , from the roofs of houses ...
Page 16
... turned by a touch of sympathy at the sight of so much agony and heroism - lift up their placid countenances and hope - beaming eyes to the heaven of liberty and love , whose opening portals invite them to enter . But we must conclude ...
... turned by a touch of sympathy at the sight of so much agony and heroism - lift up their placid countenances and hope - beaming eyes to the heaven of liberty and love , whose opening portals invite them to enter . But we must conclude ...
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... turned upon either side , brilliant flashes of light used to issue from my closed eyes ; and afterwards , upon the gradual failure of my powers of vision , colours proportionably dim and faint seemed to rush out with a degree of ...
... turned upon either side , brilliant flashes of light used to issue from my closed eyes ; and afterwards , upon the gradual failure of my powers of vision , colours proportionably dim and faint seemed to rush out with a degree of ...
Page 23
... turning itself round admits , as through a narrow chink , a very small portion of light . " How very affecting is this detail , especially the allusion to the " narrow chink " which remained in the dark shutter folded over the windows ...
... turning itself round admits , as through a narrow chink , a very small portion of light . " How very affecting is this detail , especially the allusion to the " narrow chink " which remained in the dark shutter folded over the windows ...
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Page 12 - This royal throne of kings, this scept'red isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands; This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England...
Page 55 - But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, " Lord, what music hast thou provided for the Saints in Heaven, when thou...
Page 116 - Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward. For ye have need of patience; that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
Page 263 - We then as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain ; (for he saith ; I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation...
Page 172 - A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city; and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.
Page 16 - Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty, in both the last. The force of Nature could no farther go ; To make a third she joined the former two.
Page 90 - Can I forget the dismal night, that gave My soul's best part for ever to the grave! How silent did his old companions tread, By midnight lamps, the mansions of the dead, Through breathing statues, then unheeded things, Through rows of warriors, and through walks of kings!
Page 181 - Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me. And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool...
Page 152 - He received me very courteously ; but it must be confessed that his apartment, and furniture, and morning dress, were sufficiently uncouth. His brown suit of clothes looked very rusty ; he had on a little old shrivelled unpowdered wig, which was too small for his head ; his shirtneck and knees of his breeches were loose; his black worsted stockings ill drawn up ; and he had a pair of unbuckled shoes by way of slippers.
Page 179 - I am alone. I have none to meet my enemies in the gate. Indeed, my lord, I greatly deceive myself, if, in this hard season, I would give a peck of refuse wheat for all that is called fame and honour in the world.