The Metropolitan, Volumen50James Cochrane, 1847 |
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... light admitted , cool matting , cane - bottomed conches , and plenty of soda - water or sangaree , is hateful and unbearable . Sometimes a leste brings with it flights of locusts ; which swarm over town and country in incredible ...
... light admitted , cool matting , cane - bottomed conches , and plenty of soda - water or sangaree , is hateful and unbearable . Sometimes a leste brings with it flights of locusts ; which swarm over town and country in incredible ...
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... light ; and over all , the sky was painted in broad streams of golden and violet hues . A few , a very few , moments , and all was changed : there was a short period of uncertain light - a struggle - and then the moon , looking large ...
... light ; and over all , the sky was painted in broad streams of golden and violet hues . A few , a very few , moments , and all was changed : there was a short period of uncertain light - a struggle - and then the moon , looking large ...
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... Light as day , there was no concealment of the awkwardness of the thing . What was to be done ? We were not ambitious of returning ; to walk would have been a case of slipping horse and all down the descent . There was but one method ...
... Light as day , there was no concealment of the awkwardness of the thing . What was to be done ? We were not ambitious of returning ; to walk would have been a case of slipping horse and all down the descent . There was but one method ...
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... light which then disclosed its wonders . In descending the zig - zag and dangerous paths to the bottom , sometimes the whole ravine was visible from end to end , but every now and then a bed of light cloud would pass rapidly down over ...
... light which then disclosed its wonders . In descending the zig - zag and dangerous paths to the bottom , sometimes the whole ravine was visible from end to end , but every now and then a bed of light cloud would pass rapidly down over ...
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... light over the dark forest , and down the torrent , and on the tops of the slabs and blocks of stone through which ... lights anon penetrating and flashing on the black , the vast , and magnificent glen , were things which any ordinary ...
... light over the dark forest , and down the torrent , and on the tops of the slabs and blocks of stone through which ... lights anon penetrating and flashing on the black , the vast , and magnificent glen , were things which any ordinary ...
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Página 443 - YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
Página 160 - A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place.
Página 443 - Begin, then, Sisters of the sacred well That from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring ; Begin, and somewhat loudly sweep the string. Hence with denial vain and coy excuse : So may some gentle Muse With lucky words favour my destined urn...
Página 248 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet...
Página 229 - The Oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving : No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Página 448 - Purification in the old Law did save, And such as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was...
Página 448 - Rescued from death by force though pale and faint. Mine as whom washed from spot of childbed taint, Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in heaven without restraint...
Página 447 - Athenian walls from ruin bare. IX [TO A VIRTUOUS YOUNG LADY.] LADY, that in the prime of earliest youth Wisely hast shunned the broad way and the green, And with those few art eminently seen That labour up the hill of heavenly Truth, The better part with Mary and with Ruth Chosen thou hast ; and they that overween, And at thy growing virtues fret their spleen, No anger find in thee, but pity and ruth. Thy care is fixed, and zealously attends To fill thy odorous lamp with deeds of light, And hope...
Página 223 - They solemnly declare that the present Act has no other object than to publish in the face of the whole world their fixed resolution, both in the administration of their respective States and in their political relations with every other Government, to take for their sole guide the precepts of that Holy Religion, namely the precepts of Justice, Christian Charity and Peace...
Página 441 - Campbell is a good man, a pious man. I am afraid he has not been in the inside of a church for many years * ; but he never passes a church without pulling off his hat. This shows that he has good principles.