The land we live in, a pictorial and literary sketch-book of the British empire1847 |
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... Perhaps his anger would go off in a snatch of the grumbling ballad of his class , in the country , who in the pursuit of their field - sports | but in 1692 it was again found necessary to give two were not very considerate as to the ...
... Perhaps his anger would go off in a snatch of the grumbling ballad of his class , in the country , who in the pursuit of their field - sports | but in 1692 it was again found necessary to give two were not very considerate as to the ...
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... perhaps , as to some of the coasting trips , but undoubtedly increased as to foreign ports . The river steamers are seriously affected by a competi- tion with the certain speed of the railway , which they cannot hope to rival . On the ...
... perhaps , as to some of the coasting trips , but undoubtedly increased as to foreign ports . The river steamers are seriously affected by a competi- tion with the certain speed of the railway , which they cannot hope to rival . On the ...
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... perhaps the most energetic of all - Lieutenant Waghorn , who first started this great plan , and who has pursued it with untiring energy in the face of innumerable ob- stacles . All were working towards the attainment of the same object ...
... perhaps the most energetic of all - Lieutenant Waghorn , who first started this great plan , and who has pursued it with untiring energy in the face of innumerable ob- stacles . All were working towards the attainment of the same object ...
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... perhaps three thousand years ago , and then he may well marvel at the freshness of the colours which they exhibit . The subjects , too , are highly curious . The musical parties , the ladies smelling at nosegays , the toilet , the ...
... perhaps three thousand years ago , and then he may well marvel at the freshness of the colours which they exhibit . The subjects , too , are highly curious . The musical parties , the ladies smelling at nosegays , the toilet , the ...
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... perhaps , that by Flaxman , to the memory of Mrs. Lowther ; but the most interesting , though the least prominent , is a plain brass plate , tar- nished and blackened by age and neglect , and placed against the wall under the west ...
... perhaps , that by Flaxman , to the memory of Mrs. Lowther ; but the most interesting , though the least prominent , is a plain brass plate , tar- nished and blackened by age and neglect , and placed against the wall under the west ...
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The Land We Live In, a Pictorial and Literary Sketch-Book of the British Empire British Empire Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
The Land We Live In, a Pictorial and Literary Sketch-Book of the British Empire British Empire,British Isles Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
Términos y frases comunes
Ambleside ancient antiquities appearance arrangements beautiful Birkenhead boat bridge building built called Cambridge carried Castle Castle of Sheffield cathedral centre century chapel church coach cotton curious district docks dwellings England erected establishment factories feet Ferry gallery gardens gate Glasgow Gosport Gravesend ground Hall Hampton Court harbour Henry Henry VIII hills hundred inhabitants Isle Isle of Thanet King labour ladies lake Lancashire land live Liverpool London look Lord Manchester manufacture Margate ment Mersey miles monks Museum noble Norwich palace Park pass passengers picturesque pleasant port Portsea Portsmouth present Queen railway Ramsgate Reculver Richborough Richmond Richmond Park river road scene scenery sculptures seen Shakspere Sheffield ships side spot steam steam-boat steamers stone Stratford streets tion tower town village visitor walk Wallasey Pool walls warehouses whole Windermere
Pasajes populares
Página 15 - 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.
Página 3 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Página 12 - And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.
Página 221 - The current, that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage; But, when his fair course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with the enamell'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage, And so by many winding nooks he strays, With willing sport, to- the wild ocean.
Página 218 - And though this, probably the first essay of his poetry be lost, yet it is said to have been so very bitter that it redoubled the prosecution against him to that degree, that he was...
Página 115 - HERE lies old Hobson ; death hath broke his girt And here, alas, hath laid him in the dirt; Or else the ways being foul, twenty to one, He's here stuck in a slough, and overthrown.
Página 325 - ... the black faces, the long beards, the yellow streaks of sect, the turbans and the flowing robes, the spears and the silver maces, the elephants with their canopies of state, the gorgeous palanquin of the prince, and the close litter of the noble lady...
Página 58 - Now to the sister hills that skirt her plain, To lofty Harrow now, and now to where Majestic Windsor lifts his princely brow. In lovely contrast to this glorious view, Calmly magnificent, then will we turn To where the silver Thames first rural grows.
Página 218 - In this kind of settlement he continued for : some time, till an extravagance that he was guilty of, forced him both out of his country, and that way of living which he had taken up...
Página 13 - We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate.