Pilgrimages to English ShrinesArthur Hall, Virtue & Company, 1850 |
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... honours the locality where Bunyan transferred his overwhelming energy and burly activity into his master's vineyard , ' certainly the spirit of the place might well work on a mind unenlightened and imaginative as was that of the ...
... honours the locality where Bunyan transferred his overwhelming energy and burly activity into his master's vineyard , ' certainly the spirit of the place might well work on a mind unenlightened and imaginative as was that of the ...
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... honoured urn that contains the ashes of John Hampden . We learned that he was born in the year 1594 ; that the city of London was his birth - place , and that he manifested an early love of letters , overcome only by those stern duties ...
... honoured urn that contains the ashes of John Hampden . We learned that he was born in the year 1594 ; that the city of London was his birth - place , and that he manifested an early love of letters , overcome only by those stern duties ...
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... honoured by 6 * Such , at least , is the motive assigned for its removal , by the household ; but upon very unsatisfactory grounds . It is much to be lamented , and certainly not to be accounted for , that Lord Nugent in his " Life of ...
... honoured by 6 * Such , at least , is the motive assigned for its removal , by the household ; but upon very unsatisfactory grounds . It is much to be lamented , and certainly not to be accounted for , that Lord Nugent in his " Life of ...
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... , however , that the honour is claimed by other old houses in the village , although the balance of evidence is in favour of this . mortal ; and he addressed himself to die , not THE BURIAL PLACE OF JOHN HAMPDEN . 45.
... , however , that the honour is claimed by other old houses in the village , although the balance of evidence is in favour of this . mortal ; and he addressed himself to die , not THE BURIAL PLACE OF JOHN HAMPDEN . 45.
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... honoured leader to his grave , in Hampden Church ; they marched to the sad music of the muffled drum and with reversed arms , through the lanes and over the hills of the Chilterns : as they conducted the body to the grave , the soldiers ...
... honoured leader to his grave , in Hampden Church ; they marched to the sad music of the muffled drum and with reversed arms , through the lanes and over the hills of the Chilterns : as they conducted the body to the grave , the soldiers ...
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Abney amid ancient Andrew Marvel Antwerp artist beautiful Bedford beneath Bristol Bunyan called Caxton character charity Charles Chatterton Chequers Chequers Court church churchyard Colston's School cottage Court Cromwell daughter death died duty dwelling Elizabeth England English engraved erected eyes faith father feeling Gainsborough garden genius grave Gresham College Hall Hannah heart Hogarth honour imagination Isaac Watts John Bunyan John Hampden John Kyrle John Stow King Kyrle labour Lady Mary Grey letters lived London look Lord Lord Shaftesbury Marvel master memory Merchant mind monument nature never noble painted painter parish passed picture Pilgrim's Progress pilgrimage poems poet poor portrait prison Queen record reign rendered residence royal says scene seems Sir Nicholas Sir Thomas Gresham sister spirit stood Street Thomas Chatterton thought tomb trees venerable village walls Watts wife worthy young
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Page 93 - Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace, Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm thy glassy wave?
Page 108 - Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!
Page 11 - Wilt thou leave thy sins and go to heaven, or have thy sins and go to hell...
Page 47 - For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou earnest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Page 62 - Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord ; for they rest from their labours ; and their works do follow them, Rev.
Page 236 - Here he dwelt in a family, which, for piety, order, harmony, and every virtue, was a house of God. Here he had the privilege of a country recess, the fragrant bower, the spreading lawn, the flowery garden, and other advantages to...
Page 237 - ... for children he condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion, and systems of instruction, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn of reason through its gradations of advance in the morning of life.
Page 288 - never drew a more ludicrous distortion, both of attitude and physiognomy, than this effect occasioned: nor was there wantin'g beside it one of those beautiful female faces which the same Hogarth, in whom the satirist never extinguished that love of beauty which belonged to him as a poet...
Page 87 - Whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him ? 1 St.
Page 88 - expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey, Whose turf, whose shade, whose flowers among Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver-winding way.