The Olio, Or, Museum of Entertainment, Volumen5Joseph Shackell, 1830 |
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... ANCIENT PHONE- CIANS . By J. F. Pennie , Esq . ( For the Olio . ) It appears somewhat strange , that in neither the first nor second edition of Hutchins's History of Kent , is any notice taken of a lofty eminence called Binden Hill , in ...
... ANCIENT PHONE- CIANS . By J. F. Pennie , Esq . ( For the Olio . ) It appears somewhat strange , that in neither the first nor second edition of Hutchins's History of Kent , is any notice taken of a lofty eminence called Binden Hill , in ...
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... ancient Britons were erected . In this suburb are three or four Celtic barrows . As you advance to the west , beyond the loftiest part of the mountain , which rises in the centre , and , from thence is called , vulgo , the Swine's back ...
... ancient Britons were erected . In this suburb are three or four Celtic barrows . As you advance to the west , beyond the loftiest part of the mountain , which rises in the centre , and , from thence is called , vulgo , the Swine's back ...
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... ancient times , the manufacture of silk was confined to the East Indies and China , where the insects that produce it are indigenous . It was thence brought to Europe in small quantities , and in early times sold at so extravagant a ...
... ancient times , the manufacture of silk was confined to the East Indies and China , where the insects that produce it are indigenous . It was thence brought to Europe in small quantities , and in early times sold at so extravagant a ...
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... ancient turret ; spangling far Its battled heights with many a silver star . Not high it rose , aspiring to the sky , As the tall fir lifts up its head on high , But rather , like the lion in his lair , Crouch'd , proudly frowning at ...
... ancient turret ; spangling far Its battled heights with many a silver star . Not high it rose , aspiring to the sky , As the tall fir lifts up its head on high , But rather , like the lion in his lair , Crouch'd , proudly frowning at ...
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... ancient British hill - city . But to re- turn . About 350 years before the birth of Christ , the BELGE , after passing the Rhine , and obtaining possession of the northern provinces of Gaul , soon crossed the channel , aud wholly ...
... ancient British hill - city . But to re- turn . About 350 years before the birth of Christ , the BELGE , after passing the Rhine , and obtaining possession of the northern provinces of Gaul , soon crossed the channel , aud wholly ...
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Página 378 - And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
Página 377 - And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth ; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
Página 265 - Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. 2 for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.
Página 250 - I have called two or three of our fresh ships round, and have no doubt of giving them a drubbing." " I hope," said Nelson, " none of our ships have struck." Hardy answered,
Página 250 - Captain Hardy, some fifty minutes after he had left the cockpit, returned ; and, again taking the hand of his dying friend and commander, congratulated him on having gained a complete victory. How many of the enemy were taken he did not know, as it was impossible to perceive them distinctly ; but fourteen or fifteen at least. " That's well, cried Nelson,
Página 266 - A sudden star, it shot through liquid air, And drew behind a radiant trail of hair. Not Berenice's locks first rose so bright, The heavens bespangling with dishevelled light.
Página 39 - We were on good terms, but his brother was my intimate friend. There were always great hopes of Peel, amongst us all, masters and scholars — and he has not disappointed them. As a scholar he was greatly my superior ; as a declaimer and actor, I was reckoned at least his equal ; as a schoolboy, out of school, I was always in scrapes, and he never ; and in school, he always knew his lesson, and I rarely, — but when I knew it, I knew it nearly as well. In general information, history, &c. &c., I...
Página 170 - Sanchez of Segovia, and made the same inquiry. By the time the latter had ascended the round-house, the light had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams ; as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves ; or in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. So transient and uncertain were these gleams, that few attached any importance to them ; Columbus, however, considered them as certain...
Página 251 - Kiss me, Hardy," said he. Hardy knelt down and kissed his cheek, and Nelson said, " Now I am satisfied. Thank God, I have done my duty." Hardy stood over him in silence for a moment or two, then knelt again, and kissed his forehead. " Who is that ?" said Nelson, and being informed, he replied, "God bless you, Hardy.
Página 86 - I that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana, walking like Venus, the gentle wind blowing her fair hair about her pure cheeks, like a nymph; sometime sitting in the shade like a Goddess; sometime singing like an angel; sometime playing like Orpheus. Behold the sorrow of this world! Once amiss, hath bereaved me of all.