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... England . It has the ex- quisite delicacy and perfection of a miniature by a master hand . I am resolved to be as virtuously ab- stemious as possible on the subject of scenery ; but you must be patient , and bethink yourself , my dear C ...
... England . It has the ex- quisite delicacy and perfection of a miniature by a master hand . I am resolved to be as virtuously ab- stemious as possible on the subject of scenery ; but you must be patient , and bethink yourself , my dear C ...
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... England ; you shall have its dimensions from some poetry we bought of the beadle , his own manufacture . " This church has often drawn the curious eye To see its length and breadth - to see how high . At length to measure it was my ...
... England ; you shall have its dimensions from some poetry we bought of the beadle , his own manufacture . " This church has often drawn the curious eye To see its length and breadth - to see how high . At length to measure it was my ...
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... England a slovenly - looking person . Even the three or four beggars who stealthily asked charity of us at Portsmouth were neatly dressed . I greeted , en passant , a woman sitting at her cot- tage window . She told me she paid for half ...
... England a slovenly - looking person . Even the three or four beggars who stealthily asked charity of us at Portsmouth were neatly dressed . I greeted , en passant , a woman sitting at her cot- tage window . She told me she paid for half ...
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... England . It was an old Gothic edifice . I thought of our forefathers with tenderness and with reverence . Brave men they were to leave these venerable sanctuaries , to go over the ocean - to " the depth of the desert's gloom . " It was ...
... England . It was an old Gothic edifice . I thought of our forefathers with tenderness and with reverence . Brave men they were to leave these venerable sanctuaries , to go over the ocean - to " the depth of the desert's gloom . " It was ...
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... England , would be much like the omission of the Midsum- mer's Night's Dream in reading Shakspeare . So yesterday morning , with a sky as clear , and almost as deep as our own summer - sky , we set off , accom- panied by the Halls , for ...
... England , would be much like the omission of the Midsum- mer's Night's Dream in reading Shakspeare . So yesterday morning , with a sky as clear , and almost as deep as our own summer - sky , we set off , accom- panied by the Halls , for ...
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Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home, Volume 2 Catharine Maria Sedgwick Visualização completa - 1841 |
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Página 74 - THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave. And spread the roof above them, — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
Página 55 - For contemplation he and valour formed, For softness she and sweet attractive grace...
Página 75 - These shall the fury Passions tear, The vultures of the mind, Disdainful Anger, pallid Fear, And Shame that skulks behind ; Or pining L,ove shall waste their youth, Or Jealousy, with rankling tooth, That inly gnaws the secret heart ; And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visaged, comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter Scorn a sacrifice, And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try, ,And hard Unkindness...
Página 154 - A blending of all beauties; streams and dells, Fruit, foliage, crag, wood, cornfield, mountain, vine, And chiefless castles breathing stern farewells From gray but leafy walls, where Ruin greenly dwells.