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... London pre- sent singular contrasts with his subsequent principles . His great purpose is served by their disclosure . His life illustrated two different modes of thought and ac- tion , and he wished the illustrations to be known and ...
... London pre- sent singular contrasts with his subsequent principles . His great purpose is served by their disclosure . His life illustrated two different modes of thought and ac- tion , and he wished the illustrations to be known and ...
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... London , would not have opposed the free and full delivery of letters and newspapers on " Sunday . " While travelling to Newcastle , as he took the post- office gig , the sculler and the boat , he would not have refused the railway . A ...
... London , would not have opposed the free and full delivery of letters and newspapers on " Sunday . " While travelling to Newcastle , as he took the post- office gig , the sculler and the boat , he would not have refused the railway . A ...
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... London , " * staring you in the face . I say , per- line , be assured ! As already mentioned , she be - manently hangs , because , with the exception of once longed to , and was bound for , Svendborg , in the seeing Berthel Heinsen take ...
... London , " * staring you in the face . I say , per- line , be assured ! As already mentioned , she be - manently hangs , because , with the exception of once longed to , and was bound for , Svendborg , in the seeing Berthel Heinsen take ...
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... London , " says this gentleman , in the course of some correspondence , " I took occasion to visit Mr. Mechi's far - famed farm of Tiptree Hall . My name being known to Mr. M. , I was most cordially received by him , and had a stout ...
... London , " says this gentleman , in the course of some correspondence , " I took occasion to visit Mr. Mechi's far - famed farm of Tiptree Hall . My name being known to Mr. M. , I was most cordially received by him , and had a stout ...
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... London : Reeve , Benham , and Reeve . THE readers of this magazine will remember that we have scarcely ever mentioned any work in terms of greater admiration of the text , the plates , the colouring , and all the departments connected ...
... London : Reeve , Benham , and Reeve . THE readers of this magazine will remember that we have scarcely ever mentioned any work in terms of greater admiration of the text , the plates , the colouring , and all the departments connected ...
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Page 373 - Here comes his body, mourned by Mark Antony : who, though he had no hand in his death, shall receive the benefit of his dying, a place in the commonwealth: As which of you shall not? With this I depart: That, as I slew my best lover for the good of Rome, I have the same dagger for myself, when it shall please my country to need my death.
Page 397 - SHE dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise, And very few to love. A Violet by a mossy stone Half-hidden from the eye ! — Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be ; But she is in her Grave, and, oh, The difference to me!
Page 393 - Mid mouldering ruins low he lies ; And death upon the braes of Yarrow, Has closed the Shepherd-poet's eyes: Nor has the rolling year twice measured, From sign to sign, its steadfast course, Since every mortal power of Coleridge Was frozen at its marvellous source ; The rapt One, of the godlike forehead, The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth : And Lamb, the frolic and the gentle, Has vanished from his lonely hearth.
Page 380 - Yet nature's charms, the hills and woods, The sweeping vales, and foaming floods, Are free alike to all. In days when daisies deck the ground, And blackbirds whistle clear, With honest joy our hearts will bound, To see the coming year : On braes when we please, then, We'll sit and sowth a tune ; Syne rhyme till't, we'll time till't, And sing't when we hae done.
Page 274 - As the sun, Ere it is risen, sometimes paints its image In the atmosphere, so often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events. And in today already walks tomorrow.
Page 394 - Poems to which any value can be attached were never produced on any variety of subjects but by a man who, being possessed of more than usual organic sensibility, had also thought long and deeply. For our continued influxes of feeling are modified and directed by our thoughts, which are indeed the representatives of all our past feelings...
Page 394 - For all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: and though this be true, Poems to which any value can be attached were never produced on any variety of subjects but by a man who, being possessed of more than usual organic sensibility, had also thought long and deeply.
Page 397 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove: A maid whom there were none to praise, And very few to love. A violet by a mossy stone Half - hidden from the eye! - Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and, O! The difference to me!
Page 240 - Advocates, when it immediately occurred to me that it was not quite fitting that the official head of a great law corporation should continue to be the conductor of what might be fairly enough represented as in many respects a party journal...
Page 129 - ... and the heavy horse upon me. And yet by the providence of Almighty God, though I was in the greatest danger, yet I had not the least hurt, nay, no hurt at all. For Almighty God saith by his prophet David, ' the angel of the Lord tarrieth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them,' et nomen Domini benedictum, for it was his work.