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... Earth History of England Compared to the Course of a River , Part I. Ditto On Some Pleasures in Rural Life , Bevan 855 66 67 67 • " " II . Milner 8889 68 68 Part I. 69 Ditto Forms of Early English · · 99 II . Cowper • 69 G. P. Marsh ...
... Earth History of England Compared to the Course of a River , Part I. Ditto On Some Pleasures in Rural Life , Bevan 855 66 67 67 • " " II . Milner 8889 68 68 Part I. 69 Ditto Forms of Early English · · 99 II . Cowper • 69 G. P. Marsh ...
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... earth , To hear them tell of parentage and birth , And echo conversations , dull and dry , Embellished with - He said - and , So said I. At every interview their route the same , The repetition makes attention lame ; We bustle up with ...
... earth , To hear them tell of parentage and birth , And echo conversations , dull and dry , Embellished with - He said - and , So said I. At every interview their route the same , The repetition makes attention lame ; We bustle up with ...
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... earth , we ascribe to them a similar origin ; and the more we examine their characters in minute detail , the more exact do we find the resem- blance . Thus , for example , at various heights and depths in the earth , and often far from ...
... earth , we ascribe to them a similar origin ; and the more we examine their characters in minute detail , the more exact do we find the resem- blance . Thus , for example , at various heights and depths in the earth , and often far from ...
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... Earth and Man . " CHRISTMAS IN THE OLDEN TIME . The English , from the great prevalence of rural habit throughout every class of society , have always been fond of those festivals and holidays which agreeably interrupt the stillness of ...
... Earth and Man . " CHRISTMAS IN THE OLDEN TIME . The English , from the great prevalence of rural habit throughout every class of society , have always been fond of those festivals and holidays which agreeably interrupt the stillness of ...
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... Earth and Man . ” CHARACTER OF CHARLEMAGNE . In analyzing the characters of heroes , it is hardly possible to separate altogether the share of fortune from their own . The epoch made by Charlemagne in the history of the world , the ...
... Earth and Man . ” CHARACTER OF CHARLEMAGNE . In analyzing the characters of heroes , it is hardly possible to separate altogether the share of fortune from their own . The epoch made by Charlemagne in the history of the world , the ...
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Page 12 - It happened one day about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen in the sand. I stood like one thunderstruck, or as if I had seen an apparition.
Page 3 - The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Page 12 - I went up to a rising ground to look farther. I went up the shore and down the shore, but it was all one, I could see no other impression but that one. I went to it again to see if there were any more, and to obse'rve if it might not be my fancy; but there was no room for that, for there was exactly the very print of a foot, toes, heel, and every part of a foot.
Page 90 - It has lengthened life ; it has mitigated pain ; it has extinguished diseases ; it has increased the fertility of the soil ; it has given new securities to the mariner ; it has furnished new arms to the warrior ; it has spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to our fathers; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth ; it has lighted up the night with the...
Page 89 - ... it may be that I shall leave a name sometimes remembered with expressions of good-will in the abodes of those whose lot it is to labour, and to earn their daily bread by the sweat of their brow, when they shall recruit their exhausted strength with abundant and untaxed food, the sweeter because it is no longer leavened by a sense of injustice.
Page 86 - The battle commenced with a cannonade in which the artillery of the Nabob did scarcely any execution, while the few field-pieces of the English produced great effect. Several of the most distinguished officers in Surajah Dowlah's service fell.
Page 92 - That he should have been minutely and extensively skilled in chemistry and the arts, and in most of the branches of physical science, might perhaps have been conjectured ; but it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations, and probably is not generally known, that he was curiously learned in many branches of antiquity, metaphysics, medicine, and etymology, and perfectly at home in all the details of architecture, music, and law.
Page 18 - The human figures which completed this landscape were in number two, partaking in their dress and appearance of that wild and rustic character which belonged to the woodlands of the West-Riding of Yorkshire at that early period.
Page 78 - His mind bears a singular analogy to his body. It is weak even to helplessness for purposes of manly resistance ; but its suppleness and its tact move the children of sterner climates to admiration not unmingled with contempt.
Page 7 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied ; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind ; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller.