Pilgrimages to English ShrinesArthur Hall, Virtue & Company, 1850 |
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... thought such a practice was but vain , and therefore forced himself to leave it . ' We wandered into the church avenue , and leaning against the worn buttresses of the tower , looked upwards to where hung the identical bells , which ...
... thought such a practice was but vain , and therefore forced himself to leave it . ' We wandered into the church avenue , and leaning against the worn buttresses of the tower , looked upwards to where hung the identical bells , which ...
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... 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 understood me ! ' Although the shadows of evening were ...
... 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 understood me ! ' Although the shadows of evening were ...
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... thought irreverent to the memory of one of the unsullied glories of England , the Lady Rachel Russell , if we remember that Lady Rachel craved to be her husband's secretary , but that Bunyan's wife , lowly born , lowly bred , but of ...
... thought irreverent to the memory of one of the unsullied glories of England , the Lady Rachel Russell , if we remember that Lady Rachel craved to be her husband's secretary , but that Bunyan's wife , lowly born , lowly bred , but of ...
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... thoughts , and uttering our own words , without dread of STAR - CHAMBER * or GATE - HOUSE , we carried back these thoughts to things those grand old champions of our liberty wrought for * This building may be considered as the focus of ...
... thoughts , and uttering our own words , without dread of STAR - CHAMBER * or GATE - HOUSE , we carried back these thoughts to things those grand old champions of our liberty wrought for * This building may be considered as the focus of ...
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... thought without again and again thanking God for the many blessings we enjoy in our age and generation- contrasting England of the present with England of the past ; without rejoicing that the best lessons we receive in all high , all ...
... thought without again and again thanking God for the many blessings we enjoy in our age and generation- contrasting England of the present with England of the past ; without rejoicing that the best lessons we receive in all high , all ...
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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.