Souvenirs of a summer in Germany in 1836 [by M.F. Dickson].1837 |
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... delightful in the sounds that reach the ear when standing on a height . They come from below blended in such beautiful harmony , softened by dis- tance , and rising upwards in such indistinct and musical murmurs . It was quite a luxury ...
... delightful in the sounds that reach the ear when standing on a height . They come from below blended in such beautiful harmony , softened by dis- tance , and rising upwards in such indistinct and musical murmurs . It was quite a luxury ...
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... delightful . Then the groups of people in their gay and picturesque costume , some buying , some sell- ing , others lounging about and looking at the various wares that filled the stalls . Their ani- mated gestures , and altogether the ...
... delightful . Then the groups of people in their gay and picturesque costume , some buying , some sell- ing , others lounging about and looking at the various wares that filled the stalls . Their ani- mated gestures , and altogether the ...
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... delightful retreat for old age cannot be imagined ; and any one who takes pleasure in the welfare of others , and to whom the sight of so many of their poor fellow - creatures made comfortable and happy in the evening of their days ...
... delightful retreat for old age cannot be imagined ; and any one who takes pleasure in the welfare of others , and to whom the sight of so many of their poor fellow - creatures made comfortable and happy in the evening of their days ...
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... delightful sight , so many happy - looking people , with all their wants and comforts amply provided for . The greater part were the most lively , merry old dames I ever saw , who nodded and smiled at us with great good - humour , and ...
... delightful sight , so many happy - looking people , with all their wants and comforts amply provided for . The greater part were the most lively , merry old dames I ever saw , who nodded and smiled at us with great good - humour , and ...
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... delight- ful institution with every sort of ease and in- dulgence . The immediate superintendents are a direc- teur and his wife , who have been over the esta- blishment for upwards of thirty years . The latter seems admirably well ...
... delight- ful institution with every sort of ease and in- dulgence . The immediate superintendents are a direc- teur and his wife , who have been over the esta- blishment for upwards of thirty years . The latter seems admirably well ...
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Page 290 - As she is famed to do, deceiving elf. Adieu ! adieu ! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley-glades : Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music: — do I wake or sleep?
Page 279 - My soul hath a desire and longing to enter into the courts of the Lord : my heart and my flesh rejoice in the living God.
Page 73 - If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, From doing thy pleasure on my holy day ; And call the sabbath a delight, The holy of the Lord, honourable; And shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, Nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord...
Page 93 - The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne ; But tell me, nymphs ! what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine ? ON MY JOYFUL DEPARTURE FROM THE SAME CITY.
Page 209 - And they shall come from the east and from the west, and from the north and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.
Page 296 - And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee : nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
Page 54 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made, When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the Baron's casque, the maid To the nigh streamlet ran.
Page 280 - I will pay my vows unto the Lord, in the sight of all his people : in the courts of the Lord's house, even in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem.
Page 279 - Where is thy God? 4 When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a nuil ti tude that kept hoh/day.
Page 296 - If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?