Memoir of the late John Talwin Shewell, to which is appended Notes of his Italian journey, and fugitive poemsWilliam Hunt, Steam Press, 1870 - 453 pages |
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... situated at the upper end of Tile House Street . John Talwin Shewell commenced his education at the neighbouring Grammar School , at that time superintended by a Welshman , named Evans , a very severe master , and one who spared not the ...
... situated at the upper end of Tile House Street . John Talwin Shewell commenced his education at the neighbouring Grammar School , at that time superintended by a Welshman , named Evans , a very severe master , and one who spared not the ...
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... situated in a hollow , surrounded by a bold range of Alpine crags , sprinkled with snow ; while at its foot lies a still small lake , which , during their three months of summer , assumes a liquid form . Nothing can exceed the savage ...
... situated in a hollow , surrounded by a bold range of Alpine crags , sprinkled with snow ; while at its foot lies a still small lake , which , during their three months of summer , assumes a liquid form . Nothing can exceed the savage ...
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... , arrived safe at the city of Aosta , beautifully situated in a delightful valley , the very reverse of the barren scenes above , -the road abounding with chestnut and almond trees , walnuts , and vines , the 72 MEMORANDA OF A.
... , arrived safe at the city of Aosta , beautifully situated in a delightful valley , the very reverse of the barren scenes above , -the road abounding with chestnut and almond trees , walnuts , and vines , the 72 MEMORANDA OF A.
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... situated on the borders of the lake of Geneva . How often have we wished our dear friends in England could have followed us in our various wanderings , and particularly to have seen us threading our mountain passes : Jeremiah first ...
... situated on the borders of the lake of Geneva . How often have we wished our dear friends in England could have followed us in our various wanderings , and particularly to have seen us threading our mountain passes : Jeremiah first ...
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... situated very deliciously on the margin of the lake : the rooms pleasant and commodious ; also that of Bordonnais , a great banker : the grounds very curiously laid out , in addition to their natural beauty of situation ; and concluded ...
... situated very deliciously on the margin of the lake : the rooms pleasant and commodious ; also that of Bordonnais , a great banker : the grounds very curiously laid out , in addition to their natural beauty of situation ; and concluded ...
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Page 218 - I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low ; And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Page 133 - I STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand...
Page 94 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity...
Page 173 - So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden, where delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champaign head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied...
Page 193 - But thou, of temples old, or altars new, Standest alone — with nothing like to thee — Worthiest of God, the holy and the true. Since Zion's desolation, when that He Forsook His former city, what could be, Of earthly structures, in His honour piled, Of a sublimer aspect? Majesty, Power, Glory, Strength, and Beauty, all are aisled In this eternal ark of worship undefiled.
Page 235 - Or view the Lord of the unerring bow, The God of life, and poesy, and light — The Sun in human limbs array'd, and brow All radiant from his triumph in the fight; The shaft hath just been shot — the arrow bright With an immortal's vengeance; in his eye And nostril beautiful disdain, and might, And majesty, flash their full lightnings by Developing in that one glance the Deity.
Page 50 - How various his employments, whom the world Calls idle ; and who justly, in return, Esteems that busy world an idler too ! Friends, books, a garden, and perhaps his pen, Delightful industry...
Page 229 - There is the moral of all human tales ; 'Tis but the same rehearsal of the past, First Freedom, and then Glory — when that fails Wealth, vice, corruption — barbarism at last. And History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page...
Page 97 - Chillon! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar — for 'twas trod, Until his very steps have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold pavement were a sod, By Bonnivard ! — May none those marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God.
Page 270 - The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago ; The Scipios...