A Walk from London to Land's End and Back: With Notes by the Way

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S. Low, Son & Marston, 1865 - England - 464 pages
 

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Page 12 - Father of light and life, Thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ; teach me Thyself ! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit ; and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure, Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss...
Page 313 - So all day long the noise of battle roll'd Among the mountains by the winter sea ; Until King Arthur's Table, man by man, Had fall'n in Lyonnesse about their lord, King Arthur.
Page 348 - For there was no man knew from whence he came; But after tempest, when the long wave broke All down the thundering shores of Bude and Bos, There came a day as still as heaven, and then They found a naked child upon the sands Of dark Tintagil by the Cornish sea; And that was Arthur...
Page 132 - Hertford, fitted or to shine in courts With unaffected grace, or walk the plain With innocence and meditation join'd In soft assemblage, listen to my song, Which thy own Season paints ; when Nature all Is blooming and benevolent, like thee.
Page 13 - The Earl of Buchan, unwilling that so good a man, and sweet a poet, should be without a memorial, has denoted the place of his interment, for the satisfaction of his admirers, in the year of our Lord 1792.
Page 253 - Plymouth ! Old Plymouth!! Mother of full forty Plymouths up and down the wide world that wear her memory in their names, write it in baptismal records of all their children and before the date of every outward letter, this is the Mother Plymouth, sitting by the Sea.
Page 12 - The Castle of Indolence,' &c. who died at Richmond, on the 22nd of August, and was buried there on the 29th, OS 1748. The Earl of Buchan, unwilling that so good a man and sweet a poet should be without a memorial, has denoted the place of his interment for the satisfaction of his admirers, in the...
Page 212 - Erected as a tribute of affectionate respect for private worth and public integrity, and in testimony of admiration for the generous heart and open hand which have been ever ready to protect the weak, to relieve the needy, and to succour the distressed of whatever party, race, or creed.
Page 282 - ... on the other side of the street. While lying on the door-stone, with his dreamy eyes peering out this way and that in short speculations, he had noticed this little thing, sometimes at the chamber-window and sometimes on the pavement extemporising those small entertainments which infant minds enjoy. Now, from time immemorial, there has...
Page 294 - ... fly, sometimes hopping upon the head of his rake in the excitement. Day by day they became more trustful and tame. They watched him in the morning from the trees near his door, and followed him to his work. New birds joined the company daily, and they all acted as if he had no other intent in raking the earth than to find them a breakfast.

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