The Footpath and Highway: Or, Wanderings of an American in Great Britain, in 1851 and '52Lippincott, Grambo, 1853 - 391 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα vii
... English from an unusual position ; and there is a truthfulness , an unpretending sincerity in his descriptions , which will carry the reader with him in his lonely rambles ; while even those who may be deeply versed in the history of ...
... English from an unusual position ; and there is a truthfulness , an unpretending sincerity in his descriptions , which will carry the reader with him in his lonely rambles ; while even those who may be deeply versed in the history of ...
Σελίδα xii
... English railways CHAPTER XLIII . Brighton : its appearance - The pavilion - Esplanade - A night with a Blue Coat boy . CHAPTER XLIV . Farewell to England . 375 378 386 389 THE FOOTPATH AND HIGHWAY . CHAPTER I. " LET go xii CONTENTS .
... English railways CHAPTER XLIII . Brighton : its appearance - The pavilion - Esplanade - A night with a Blue Coat boy . CHAPTER XLIV . Farewell to England . 375 378 386 389 THE FOOTPATH AND HIGHWAY . CHAPTER I. " LET go xii CONTENTS .
Σελίδα 40
... English peasantry , come from where they will . Philanthropists should establish schools , and Irish gentlemen should treat their poor fellow - countrymen as if they were men , not brutes - beings endowed with the same facul- ties as ...
... English peasantry , come from where they will . Philanthropists should establish schools , and Irish gentlemen should treat their poor fellow - countrymen as if they were men , not brutes - beings endowed with the same facul- ties as ...
Σελίδα 41
... English pilot came on board . We ran up the channel and bay , passing the Isle of Anglesey , and the northern coast of Wales in full sight . The shores were not so precipitous as those of Ireland , nor were they so productive ; but ...
... English pilot came on board . We ran up the channel and bay , passing the Isle of Anglesey , and the northern coast of Wales in full sight . The shores were not so precipitous as those of Ireland , nor were they so productive ; but ...
Σελίδα 56
... English twilight faintly struggled through the thick veil of smoke which overhangs the city . The transition from the pure air of the country to the thick atmosphere of the town caused me to sigh for the bright sky , the green fields ...
... English twilight faintly struggled through the thick veil of smoke which overhangs the city . The transition from the pure air of the country to the thick atmosphere of the town caused me to sigh for the bright sky , the green fields ...
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Σελίδα 177 - Row, vassals, row, for the pride of the Highlands ! Stretch to your oars, for the evergreen Pine...
Σελίδα 248 - Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Σελίδα 88 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherits, shall dissolve ; And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind ! we are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
Σελίδα 109 - JOHN NEWTON, CLERK, Once an infidel and libertine, A servant of slaves in Africa, Was by the rich mercy of our Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST, Preserved, restored, pardoned, And appointed to preach the faith he Had long laboured to destroy, Near 16 years at Olney in Bucks ; And — years in this church.
Σελίδα 297 - E'en from the grave thou shalt have power to charm. Bid them be chaste, be innocent, like thee ; Bid them in duty's sphere as meekly move : And, if so fair, from vanity as free, As firm in friendship, and as fond in love, Tell them, though 'tis an awful thing to die, ('Twas, e'en to thee,) yet, the dread path once trod, Heaven lifts its everlasting portals high, And bids "the pure in heart behold their God.
Σελίδα 71 - twere the cape of a long ridge of such, Save that there was no sea to lave its base, But a most living landscape...
Σελίδα 191 - Now, Spring returns ; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known ; Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown.
Σελίδα 297 - Ev'n from the grave thou shalt have power to charm. Bid them be chaste, be innocent, like thee ; Bid them in duty's sphere as meekly move; And if so fair, from vanity as free ; As firm in friendship, and as fond in love— Tell them...
Σελίδα 88 - Life is a Jest, and all Things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it.
Σελίδα 71 - Another ! even now she loved another ; And on the summit of that hill she stood Looking afar , if yet her lover's steed Kept pace with her expectancy , and flew.