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... object in my travel , " and wish “ to make thee partaker in my happi- ness . " Thus , I now and then shall give you a short extract from works so well known per- haps as Murray's " Hand - books , ” ( and those , I can say from ...
... object in my travel , " and wish “ to make thee partaker in my happi- ness . " Thus , I now and then shall give you a short extract from works so well known per- haps as Murray's " Hand - books , ” ( and those , I can say from ...
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... objects connected with our national characteristics , that a foreigner might form no bad estimate of the English as a people , by only observing what most arrests his eyes in his pas- sage up the Thames . That vast commercial ...
... objects connected with our national characteristics , that a foreigner might form no bad estimate of the English as a people , by only observing what most arrests his eyes in his pas- sage up the Thames . That vast commercial ...
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... object so replete with grandeur , and yet not unallied to fear . I re- joiced to find , by what I now experienced , that ... objects to me of the deepest interest . Though the day had been fine , there were indications that INTRODUCTORY ...
... object so replete with grandeur , and yet not unallied to fear . I re- joiced to find , by what I now experienced , that ... objects to me of the deepest interest . Though the day had been fine , there were indications that INTRODUCTORY ...
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... nor night , but that sort of sombre twilight when there is just suffi- eient light to show the objects around under an aspect of peculiar gloom . The sun had looked very angry as he went down ; very red in c 2 INTRODUCTORY LETTER . 27.
... nor night , but that sort of sombre twilight when there is just suffi- eient light to show the objects around under an aspect of peculiar gloom . The sun had looked very angry as he went down ; very red in c 2 INTRODUCTORY LETTER . 27.
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... object as that now presented by the agitated ocean . I thought of those majestic lines of Lord Byron ; and no poet has ever described the sea more beautifully : - " Roll on , thou deep and dark blue c 3 INTRODUCTORY LETTER . 29.
... object as that now presented by the agitated ocean . I thought of those majestic lines of Lord Byron ; and no poet has ever described the sea more beautifully : - " Roll on , thou deep and dark blue c 3 INTRODUCTORY LETTER . 29.
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Page 30 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed, — in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark heaving; — boundless, endless, and sublime. The image of eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 191 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Page 30 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy...
Page 30 - Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all time, Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving ; boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible ; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made ; each zone Obeys thee ; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless...
Page 30 - Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; upon the Eatery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, When, for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown.
Page 28 - They that go down to the sea in ships : and occupy their business in great waters ; These men see the works of the Lord : and his wonders in the deep. For at his word the stormy wind ariseth : which lifteth up the waves thereof.
Page 218 - The Laurel, meed of mighty conquerors And poets sage, the Fir that weepeth still, The Willow, worn of forlorn paramours, The Yew obedient to the bender's will, The Birch for shafts, the Sallow for the mill, The...
Page 191 - THE glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against Fate; Death lays his icy hand on kings: Sceptre and Crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill : But their strong nerves at last must yield ; They tame but one another still : Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath When they, pale captives,...
Page 76 - The vast mountains rising on every side and closing at the end, with their rich clothing of wood, the sweet soft spots of verdant pasture scattered at their feet, and sometimes on their breast, and the expanse of water, unbroken by islands, and almost undisturbed by any signs of living men, make an impression which it would be foolish to attempt to convey by words.
Page 242 - Seignior proudly said, if they should trouble him, as they did the Spaniard, he would send his men with shovels and pickaxes, and throw it into the sea) I cannot altogether ascribe to the ingenuity and industry of the people, but the mercy of God, that hath disposed them to such a thriving genius; and to the will of His providence, that disposeth her favour to each country in their preordinate season.