Pilgrimages to English ShrinesArthur Hall, Virtue & Company, 1850 |
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... tell how to contain myself till I got home , I thought I could have spoken of HIS love , and have told of HIS mercy towards me , even to the very crows that sat upon the ploughed lands before me , had they been capable to have ...
... tell how to contain myself till I got home , I thought I could have spoken of HIS love , and have told of HIS mercy towards me , even to the very crows that sat upon the ploughed lands before me , had they been capable to have ...
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... telling how or when her simple , chastened , and believing spirit was called to HIM , who had so ordered her pilgrimage on earth as to be peculiarly instrumental in awaking her husband to a sense of sin , and a knowledge of the way ...
... telling how or when her simple , chastened , and believing spirit was called to HIM , who had so ordered her pilgrimage on earth as to be peculiarly instrumental in awaking her husband to a sense of sin , and a knowledge of the way ...
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... tell which to choose ; only I in that manner did commit the thing to God ; and verily , at my * This valuable relic is in the possession of the Dean of Manchester , from whom Captain Smyth , R. N. , procured the impression , from which ...
... tell which to choose ; only I in that manner did commit the thing to God ; and verily , at my * This valuable relic is in the possession of the Dean of Manchester , from whom Captain Smyth , R. N. , procured the impression , from which ...
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... another chair , now in the possession of the Polehill family ; and another in the Whitbread family , who have also his pulpit Bible . which have ever tales to tell to the thoughtful and. 20 PILGRIMAGES TO ENGLISH SHRINES .
... another chair , now in the possession of the Polehill family ; and another in the Whitbread family , who have also his pulpit Bible . which have ever tales to tell to the thoughtful and. 20 PILGRIMAGES TO ENGLISH SHRINES .
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Mrs. S. C. Hall Frederick William Fairholt. which have ever tales to tell to the thoughtful and the imaginative , we would rather have had him imprisoned on the bridge than in the town - we would rather think of him there than in the ...
Mrs. S. C. Hall Frederick William Fairholt. which have ever tales to tell to the thoughtful and the imaginative , we would rather have had him imprisoned on the bridge than in the town - we would rather think of him there than in the ...
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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
Popular passages
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.